Thrush Hermit - The Complete Recordings (CD) (Near Mint (NM or M-))

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Autographed on the front CD box by Joel in silver sharpie. See website for photos.
 

Notes:

Clayton Park:
Originally released on Sonic Unyon in 1999.
Recorded & mixed at The Gas Station, Toronto, ON, in May 1998.
Mastered at Metalworks, Toronto, ON.

Sweet Homewrecker:
Originally released on Elektra in 1997.
Recorded at Easley Recording, Memphis, TN, in May 1996.
Mixed at Ardent Studios.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Smart Bomb:
Originally released by Murderecords in 1994.
Recorded at Pier 21, Halifax, NS, in Oct.-Nov. 1993.

The Great Pacific Ocean:
Originally released on Murderecords in 1994.
Recorded by Steve Albini at his house in Chicago, IL, in Nov. 1994.

All Technologies Aside:
1 - Recorded at Lawrence Currie's Idea of East in Halifax, March 1998.
2 - Recorded at Idea of East in '98, first appeared on the No Alternative Records 'Teleconned' compilation.
3 - Recorded in 1996 at Easley's, it ended up on the 'Rock & Roll Detective' promo EP.
4 - Also cut in Memphis in '96 and appeared on the 'R&RD' EP.
5 - 1996, Memphis.
6 - Showed up on a compilation by Montesano Records called 'Four Dots: Seattle, Halifax, Moncton, Bellingham.' Recorded at our Cornwallis St. jam space in 1997.
7 - Recorded at Cornwallis St. on the eight-track in March 1998.
8 - Easley's in '97.
9 - Recorded live off the floor at Easley's in 1996.
10 - Recorded on the Tascam four-track in '95 while demoing for 'Sweet Homewrecker.'
11 - Cut on the Tascam in 1997.
12 - 1997, four-track.
13 - Demo for the third Hermit LP that never was. Recorded at Idea of East in March 1998.
14 - Laid down at Idea of East.
15 - 1996.
16 - Demo done in our space in 1997.
17 - 1998.
18 - 1997.
19 - 1997.
20 - 1999.
21 - Recorded in 1999.
22 - Cut with Dale for 'Clayton Park.'

Hits & Giggles:
1 - Recorded in July 1994 at Dreamland, a renovated chapel in Woodstock, NY.
2 - Another one tracked at Dreamland. This came as the 'C-side' on the two-disc 'French Inhale'/'Hated It' set.
3 - Came out as a seven-inch on murderecords in 1995.
4 - B-side for 'Giddy.'
5 - 1995 four-track cassette.
6 - The latter half morphed into the finale of 'Clayton Park.'
7 - Recorded on four-track in 1995 for the 'Blow Hard and Pop' comp.
8 - Recorded in August 1995 at Terry Pulliam's Soundmarket Studio on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
9 - Also laid down at Soundmarket.
10 - Dreamland, 1994.
11 - This went on a tribute comp to the Descendents called 'Homage.' Recorded in 1994 during the GPO session.
12 - Recorded in 1993 as a bonus track for the vinyl 10" of 'Smart Bomb.'
13 - Off the 'John Boomer' EP (1993) and a Genius 7" for the US.
16 - B-side of the 'Marya' 7".
17 - Cut from 'John Boomer.'
18 - Appeared on 'Ammo' in 1993.
19 - Appeared on 'Ammo.'
20 - We created this song in a space briefly borrowed from Sloan and Spike N. over the Misty Moon Cabaret on Barrington St.
21 - From the 'Ammo' 7" EP.
22 - From a long-forgotten local Halifax compilation, 'Out of the Fog II,' possibly recorded by Keith Tufts in an old building on Brunswick Street.
23 - We honoured the Local Rabbits by utterly massacring their song for a murderecords giveaway 7" single, recorded in the afternoon in Vancouver's Starfish Room.

Embarrass Ourselves Awake:
1 - Recorded on eight-track at the Centre For Art Tapes. It showed up on a Halifax comp called 'Hear and Now, as well as our first real release: the 1992 cassette EP Nobody Famous.
2 - Recorded at Steve Comeau's then-fresh Adinsound studio on Quinpool.
3 - Recordedon a Sears ghettoblaster one summer afternoon in 1989.
4 - Recorded at CBC Halifax.
6 to 11 - thrush Hermit's alter ego band: The Tim Robbins Experience.
7 - Appeared on the Bubblegum Records 'Blow Hard and Pop' comp.
8 - Recorded in the space where Sloan were demoing 'Twice Removed.'
12 - The first incarnation of Thrush Hermit proper was The Hoods.
14 - Recorded on four-track.
16 - Four-tracked at the Plasketts' in '92.
18 - Demoed in the table tennis room of the Plasketts' house circa autumn 1991.
19 - Live from the Double Deuce. Excerpted from a comp called 'Cod Can't Hear.'
24 - Four-track demo.

Mastered and edited at Archive Mastering, Mineville, NS, unless otherwise noted.

. Clayton Park
CD1-1. From The Back Of The Film
CD1-2. (Oh Man!) What To Do?
CD1-3. Violent Dreams
CD1-4. The Day We Hit The Coast
CD1-5. Headin' South
CD1-6. Western Dreamz
CD1-7. Songs For The Gang
CD1-8. Uneventful
CD1-9. Oh My Soul!
CD1-10. We Are Being Reduced
CD1-11. Before You Leave
. Sweet Homewrecker
CD2-1. Skip The Life
CD2-2. North Dakota
CD2-3. Noosed And Haloed Swear Words
CD2-4. Without You?
CD2-5. Snubbed
CD2-6. Heart Wrenching Man
CD2-7. Puerto Rico
CD2-8. At My Expense
CD2-9. This Week
CD2-10. I'm Sorry If Your Heart Has No More Room
CD2-11. Strange To Be Involved
CD2-12. Darling Don't Worry
CD2-13. On The Sneak
CD2-14. Came And Went
. Smart Bomb / The Great Pacific Ocean
CD3-1. Hated It
CD3-2. French Inhale
CD3-3. All Dressed Up
CD3-4. Pink Is The Colour
CD3-5. Cott
CD3-6. You Got An Answer
CD3-7. Radio Blaster
CD3-8. The Great Pacific Ocean
CD3-9. Every Morning I Reread The Postcards
CD3-10. 25 All Right
CD3-11. Patriot
CD3-12. Claim To Lame
CD3-13. The Great Pacific Ocean (Reprise)
. All Technology Aside
CD4-1. In The Morning
CD4-2. Songs For The Gang
CD4-3. Seven Years Of Bad Luck And Bad Timing
CD4-4. 1991
CD4-5. Darling Don't Worry
CD4-6. Everybody's Gotta Move
CD4-7. Tired And True
CD4-8. Several Acrtresses
CD4-9. The Northwest Arm
CD4-10. Break This Back
CD4-11. The Sad Equator
CD4-12. Entirely
CD4-13. Maybe We Should Just Go Home
CD4-14. Mystery And Crime
CD4-15. Entertain Thyself
CD4-16. Bankruptcy
CD4-17. Love In The Air
CD4-18. Burnett Vs. Williams
CD4-19. Blood In My Veins
CD4-20. I Want A Cubicle
CD4-21. Come On Teacher
CD4-22. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
. Hits & Giggles
CD5-1. Take Another Drag
CD5-2. Glum Boy
CD5-3. Giddy With The Drugs
CD5-4. The Ugly Details
CD5-5. The Old Fashioned
CD5-6. Layla II
CD5-7. Hung Up On Me
CD5-8. The Glorious Life
CD5-9. When You Failed English
CD5-10. Ex-Wife's VCR
CD5-11. Ace
CD5-12. Ghost
CD5-13. Marya
CD5-14. Quartermark
CD5-15. Cott
CD5-16. Simple Universal Leader
CD5-17. Airheart
CD5-18. Rosebody
CD5-19. Cookie
CD5-20. Airplane
CD5-21. Pink Is The Colour
CD5-22. You Are Gone
CD5-23. West Island Rockers
. Embarrass Ourselves Awake
CD6-1. This One's Mine
CD6-2. Picturesque
CD6-3. Nabisco Fonzie: Excerpts From Fonzie's Favourites
CD6-4. Where Does My Money Go? (Street Cents Theme)
CD6-5. Can I Wait For Pizza?
CD6-6. The Tim Robbins Experience Opening Theme
CD6-7. The Pros And Cons Of Living On The Edge
CD6-8. Les Girls' Last Stand
CD6-9. Nightcap For NSCAD
CD6-10. Six Figure Satellite
CD6-11. Countdown To The Grammys
CD6-12. The Hoods
CD6-13. Hinge
CD6-14. Dresden
CD6-15. I Don't Know
CD6-16. Blind Children
CD6-17. Round Around
CD6-18. Siren Angel
CD6-19. Thrash Helmet
CD6-20. The Young And The Groomed
CD6-21. The Fastest Sport On Wheels (1-3)
CD6-22. Ordering A Pizza From Goddard's
CD6-23. N.O.S.T.A.L.G.I.A.
CD6-24. From The Back Of The Film
CD6-25. The Hoods On CKDU's Post Industrial Idiocy
. Learn To Party DVD
DVD1-1. Learn To Party Documentary
DVD1-2. '94 Tour
DVD1-3. Edgefest '95
. Damage For Damage Done DVD
DVD2-1. Building The Bus
DVD2-2. North Dakota
DVD2-3. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
DVD2-4. Headin' South / Violent Dreams
DVD2-5. Final Show
DVD2-6. From The Back Of The Film And The Hoods

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 844667018387
Matrix / Runout (a) 10-97054
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Matrix / Runout (b) 10-97055
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Matrix / Runout 14-58643 (a)
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Matrix / Runout 14-58644 (a)
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Recorded At The Gas Station
Recorded At Easley Recording
Recorded At Pier 21
Recorded At Idea Of East
Recorded At Dreamland Recording Studios
Recorded At SoundMarket Studios
Recorded At The Starfish Room
Recorded At Centre For Art Tapes
Recorded At Adinsound Studios
Recorded At CBC Studio H
Recorded At Double Deuce, Halifax
Mixed At The Gas Station
Mixed At Ardent Studios
Mastered At Metalworks Studios
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Mastered At Archive Mastering
Edited At Archive Mastering