PLUSH Three-Quarters Blind Eyes + 2 1999

 

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Chicago based vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and songwriter.

 

Tracklist

1		Three-Quarters Blind Eyes	3:15
2		Found A Little Baby	3:20
3		Found A Little Baby [Instrumental]

SUMMER HIT! Various Artists 1995

 

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Compilation on the Spanish record label Running Circle

Tracklist

  1. Smog - Bathysphere
  2. Guided By Voices - Motor Away
  3. Archers of Loaf - Fabricoh
  4. The Minus 5 - The Emperor of the Bathroom
  5. Cheralee Dillon - Little Yellow Lemon
  6. Walter Salas-Humara - Be Honest With Me
  7. DM3 - 1 Time, 2 Times Devastated
  8. Smudge - It's Over
  9. Sebadoh - Skull
10. Lambchop - Soaky In The Pooper
11. Picasso Trigger - Club Joiner
12. Edsel Auctioneer - Summer Hit
13. The Pastels - Guiding Star
14. Palace - New Partner
15. Butch Hancock - To Each His Own
16. Dubrovniks - Holy Town
17. The Dickies - Golden Boys
18. Lunachicks - Drop Dead
19. 24-7-Spyz - Outta Mind, Outta Time
20. Gutterball - Transparency
21. Kim Salmon - Suzanne

SUCCOUR: THE TERRASCOPE BENEFIT ALBUM Various Artists 1996

 

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Tracklist

1-01	The Linus Pauling Quartet–	Dartania
7:03
1-02	The Green Pajamas–	Deadly Nightshade
4:43
1-03	Palace–	Black / Rich Tune	3:14
1-04	Porcupine Tree–	Ptolemine Treescope	6:02
1-05	The Powder Monkeys–	The Supernova That Never Quits (Radio Edit)
5:01
1-06	The Wellwater Conspiracy–	The Far Side Of Your Moon
3:13
1-07	Peter Buck & Scott McCaughey–	Hate Me More
4:49
1-08	Current 93–	Nihil	4:36
1-09	Charalambides–	Drop	5:56
1-10	The Bevis Frond–	Dry Rain
5:18
1-11	Kable (2)–	Omar
2:38
1-12	Spirit (8)–	Cages	4:49
1-13	Flying Saucer Attack–	Bare Trees	3:24
1-14	Clockbrains–	Everything You Want (Live Recording)	3:42
1-15	The Marilyn Decade–	Cock Marsh On Bicycles
2:26
1-16	Motorpsycho–	The Nerve Tatoo (Non-Album Version)	4:28
1-17	Captain Sensible–	So Far Out
6:27
2-01	Nurse With Wound–	Angle
5:16
2-02	Sun Dial–	Red Sky (Demo Version)	4:41
2-03	The Olivia Tremor Control–	The Ships	4:30
2-04	The Flyte Reaction–	New Sunrise
4:21
2-05	Dunlavy–	Wesleyan
3:32
2-06	Robyn Hitchcock–	She Was Sinister But She Was Happy (Early Version)	3:19
2-07	Bardo Pond–	Affa
5:31
2-08	Mooseheart Faith–	You Are Just A Flying Egg
3:54
2-09	The Heads (2)–	Spliff Riff
4:41
2-10	Cul De Sac–	Into The Cone Of Gold
3:52
2-11	The Lucky Bishops–	Ashtralia	4:43
2-12	Endino's Earthworm–	Fried, Baked Or Scrambled
2:39
2-13	Ethereal Counterbalance–	Let It Fly
5:13
2-14	Medicine Ball–	Building And Building
5:07
2-15	Strapping Fieldhands–	Tale From Telegewae
2:56
2-16	Ghost (2)–	Beyond Coimbula (Live Edit)
1:57
2-17	Coil–	Lost Rivers Of London	7:38
2-18	Magic Hour–	Sunrise Variations	3:21

 

PLUSH More You Becomes You 1998

by request

 

 

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Artist Biography by Joslyn Layne

Vocalist, pianist, and guitarist Liam Hayes (known for his work with Will Oldham's Palace) has been songwriting for his group, Plush, since the dawn of the '90s, but didn't record with the band until 1994 when the single "Three Quarters Blind Eyes"/"Found a Little Baby" came out on Chicago's Drag City label. This first effort for the seldom-gigging band garnered some surprisingly big attention from the music press; notably, the B-side was named Single of the Week by one British magazine and received critical praise from several others. It was another three years, however, before the band created a follow-up. 1997's "No Education" came out on Flydaddy, and it was a much shorter wait between releases this time, with their full-length debut coming out the following year. 1998's More You Becomes You actually finds Hayes at the piano singing sparse, vulnerable, and romantic songs along the heartfelt lines of Carole King and Burt Bacharach ballads. Following the album's release, the band continued together with Hayes on guitar and toured with the Japanese band Ghost and with Yo La Tengo. One can also catch Hayes performing in the background of a bar scene in the film High Fidelity (2000), a movie about an obsessive music fan living in Chicago. In 2002, the Japanese After Hours label released Hayes' next achievement, Fed -- an album as lush and ambitious as the previous one was sparse. Hayes returned in 2009 with Bright Penny, a lovingly constructed "ode to pop music" that was released under the moniker Liam Hayes & Plush. Hayes appeared in and composed the soundtrack for director Roman Coppola's 2012 independent comedy A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III.  

Tracklist

1	Virginia
2	More You Becomes You
3	(I Didn't Know) I Was Asleep
4	The Party I
5	The Party II
6	Soaring And Boring
7	(See It In The) Early Morning
8	Instrumental
9	Save The People
10	The Sailor

BOX OF CHOCOLATES Fearful Symmetry 1999

by request

 

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Will Oldham of Palace/The Palace Brothers 

Tracklist  

1	Catatonic	0:57
2	Emporer's Clothes	5:00
3	Happiness	5:01
4	Ephant	2:12
5	Octopus' Garden	4:19
6	The Writhe	3:30
7	Mother's Heart	0:46
8	Garbage Barge	2:48
9	Perdido	3:13
10	Good Side	1:33
11	King Of Infinite Space	1:01
12	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Nightmare	7:38
13	Everyone's A Loverod	3:14

PALACE MUSIC Viva Last Blues 1995

 

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Artist Biography

by John Bush

Will Oldham, the brains and brawn behind releases as Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, Palace Music, and just plain Palace, is loosely grouped with the '90s anti-folk movement that also includes Bill Callahan of Smog, a labelmate of Oldham's on Chicago's Drag City Records. Often mistaken for an old man due to his cracking vocals, sparse guitar pickings, and biblical dialect, Oldham has recorded since 1992 with a variety of sidemen -- basically, any friends or acquaintances that can play an instrument.

Raised in Louisville, KY, Oldham first became involved in acting; he starred in John Sayles' 1987 mining film Matewan, playing -- with considerable ease -- a teenage preacher and miner. Two years later, he moved to TV for Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure and returned to the cinema in 1991 for Thousand Pieces of Gold, another mining film. At the same time, Oldham was also involved in the fertile indie rock scene in Louisville, picking up his first technical credit for the photograph on the cover of Slint's 1991 classic, Spiderland.

Oldham the musical artist debuted in 1992 with the single "Ohio River Boat Song" on Drag City Records. Though he was credited as Palace Songs on the single, Oldham's debut album the following year was filed under Palace Brothers -- in part to denote the work of Todd Brashear. There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You introduced several of Oldham's continuing themes: drunkenness, sin in general, and the varied results of each.

Recording regularly during 1993-1994, Oldham released several singles and an EP (An Arrow Through the Bitch) before his second album -- self-titled but also listed as Days in the Wake -- was issued by Drag City in 1994. Again, Oldham followed with a string of limited-release singles and one EP, but mixed things up for late-1995's Viva Last Blues (as Palace Music); Oldham recruited a band, with guitarist Bryan Rich, organist Liam Hayes, and bassist Jason Loewenstein (from Sebadoh). The following year's Arise, Therefore found Oldham back in a largely solitary setting.

Tracklist

1		More Brother Rides	3:13
2		Viva Ultra	3:14
3		The Brute Choir	2:38
4		The Mountain Low	2:40
5		Tonight's Decision (And Hereafter)	4:04
6		Work Hard / Play Hard	2:45
7		New Partner	3:53
8		Cat's Blues	3:12
9		We All, Us Three, Will Ride	2:51
10		Old Jerusalem	2:11