Inventory/tapes

Tapes which have been digitized

• TEAC MDX90 1988-01-28
  • Side A: Durham / Greensboro
    1. Primordial (full early version)
    2. middle of Brave New World (no synths; voice-sample-splice thingy at end)
    3. primordial guitar/harmonica thing
    4. strange click-echo thing (very brief)
    5. water-guitar thingy, with piano (mixed down, fortunately)
    6. jam with people at Milner Hall
    7. "Birds" :-P
    8. Those Satchnarp Blues
    9. Anticipatory Piano Thing
    10. Dana Auditorium 3AM
    11. brief harpsichord thing
    12. Through Space & Time (by Chris Kimmel)
    13. variations in D major thing
    14. Shannon & Fran flute/synth jam
    15. guitar chord thing
    16. rhodes & strings
    17. rhodes & horns
  • Side B: Ann Arbor / Providence
    1. middle of Perpetual Motion
    2. Antarctica, abrupt ending (poor tape quality)
    3. BFoG instrumental tracks (probably 4-trk cassette mix)
    4. Daydream of the Psychoanalyst (poor tape quality)
    5. Stringy Fields of Green (short version; poor tape quality)
    6. Let's Annoy Caroline
    7. Dangerous Interlude (without reverb)
    8. harpsichord bass thing
    9. spliced voice thing for Brave New World
    10. Slow Stringy Thing
    11. Thing That Needs Words
    12. Pepperonipitsaa
• Maxell MX90 CLTR-02
  • Side A: layering/transfer #2 1989-08-03
    1. The Tape Ran Out
    2. something piano backwards; short
    3. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; not the best mix, and not complete)
    4. overdub tracks for BFoG (vocals, echo-keybd, whistle...)
    5. overdub tracks for BFoG (vocals, whistle, lead vocals, echo kbd... stops abruptly)
    6. overdub tracks for BFoG (backwards intro, chorus-y lead vocals, piano, strings, organ, electric guitar solo) -- is this a mixdown?
    7. another BFoG submix; no high/echoey lead vox, no synth solo; has organ and elec guitar solo
    8. rewinding sound (brief)
    9. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox, keyboard solo...)
    10. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox... truncated near end.)
  • Side B: no label
    1. BFoG mix: no high/echoey lead vox, no synth solo
    2. overdub tracks for BFoG (high/echoey bg/fg vox, synth solo; no elec. guitar)
    3. Facsimile mix: only one lead vocal, no real drums, no solos
    4. Facsimile mix: prelude, two vocals, real drums...
    5. Facsimile mix: prelude moved closer; two vocals, real drums, no solos; drums drop out properly
    6. Facsimile mix: additional prelude; guitar solo; no vocal solos
    7. Facsimile mix: adds vocal solos
    8. Post-Atomic Wasteland: no lead vocals
    9. Facsimile mix: slightly better mix? (This sounds like the final one I used...)
    10. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; missing some elements, including the end part; a bit fuzzy...)
    11. Monorail to Nowhere (with piano intro; much as above, though this sounds like a submix that got used)
    12. Monorail to Nowhere: cuts in near the end (the part missing from the above mixes); echoey ending
• Maxell MX90
  • Side A: "The Cheap Imitation - demo 1988dec21"
  • Side B: "The Cheap Imitation - layering/xfer 2A" (?)