Summary

I. Swirlies/The Yes Girls Albums

II. 'Swirlies Magic Strop' series

III. Swirlies EPs/7"s

IV. Swirlies-related: Richmond County Archives & other releases

V. Damon's collector scum discography

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I. SWIRLIES/YES GIRLS ALBUMS

Damon Andy Rob Ron: The Yes Girls

2000 (Swirlies #20-Pehr/Sneaky Flute Empire) Home 4-track recordings by various persons. Out of print at the moment...but popular demand will surely force a reissue with bonus tracks in the coming decades. [ Sold out ] but free download here

 

Strictly East Coast Sneaky Flute Music

1998 (Swirlies #15 - Taang!) Remixes of "They Spent Their Wild Youthful...", includes remixes by Soulslinger and DJ Spooky. (Double LP of "Strictly East Coast..." and "They Spent Their..." was released in 1998 - it was the first release of "They Spent Their..." on vinyl.) download here

 

They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons

1996 (Swirlies #10 - Taang!) Bob Weston once called this album "the greatest unheard record of the nineties" -- others called it played-out, shoegazing bullshit. Either way. download here

Blonder Tongue Audio Baton

1993 (Swirlies #6 - Taang!) The first full-length album by the original collapsing Swirlies line-up. Named after a handsome piece of recording equipment, and heavily criticized by the manufacturers of the Audio Baton. download here Watch the video for "Bell"

 

Swirlies: What to Do About Them

1992 (Swirlies #5 - Taang!) Compiles 7" singles released on Slumberland and Pop Narcotic plus other detritus. download here

 

II. SWIRLIES MAGIC STROP SERIES

SWIRLIES' MAGIC STROP: Winsome Zamula's Hammer of Contumely Offered: 10 May to 9 June AND 24 to 31 October 2005 Number downloaded: ~260

2005 (Swirlies #24/SFE #010) The Second of the Strops. Live radio broadcast on KVRX recorded April 29 2000 by Eric Wofford during the final throes of the Yes Girls' beleaguered journey (portending the hateful umbrage of Meg Zamula) through America. One of many Yes Girls line-ups: featuring Damon, Adam Garcia, and Dr. Bobby Laasoko (a/k/a Rob) in the MD can. Art features a cryptic silouette of Martha, the last Passenger pigeon (R.I.P. 1 Sept 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo). Tracks: 1-8 >> The forging of the hammer of ignorance >> The smithing of the trident of arrogance >> The midnight coffin ritual >> Metal on metal >> Appeasement at the volcano >> The question then is when and when is then >> Recompense and comeuppance: JB style >> But in her dying throes she takes hammer to her foes

 

SWIRLIES' MAGIC STROP: At the Salon of WBCN Offered: 9 April to 9 May AND 24 to 31 October 2005 Number downloaded: ~255

2005 (Swirlies #23/SFE #009) The first in a series of olde live shows we offered up for your annoyance. Listen to us flail in this live broadcast from Squid Hell to WBCN's Nocturnal Emissions show (recorded May 1995). An impressive four song set (in 30+ minutes) featuring over 15 minutes of the liveliest dead air you've ever heard. Butterfly. Featured Bell, San Cristobal, Sunn, and In Harmony New Found Freedom--this download has vanished.

 

Sneaky Flutes [EP]

1996 (Swirlies #9 - Taang!) The beginning of all this "sneaky flute" business. Includes "San Cristobal..." and "You Can't Be Told It" from "They Spent their Wild Youthful Days..." as well as Swirlies family classic "James Morrison" - a rant about smoking *bleep* in the bathroom of a greyhound bus. Plus: bonus - evangelistic ranting re: blind persons. download here

Brokedick Car [EP]

1994 (Swirlies #7 - Taang!) Includes two remixes of "Pancake" from the Blonder Tongue LP plus a song that was originally called "You're Just Jealous Because I Have Cookies" (based on an offhanded, intoxicated comment by Ken Beck). download here Watch Richard Lonsdale's film 'LA 1979', regarding 'You're Just Jealous'

 

Vents of the Ocean Floor [Split 7" with Iris]

(Swirlies #11 - Bubblecore Records, BC-009) Swirlies 4-track version of "His Love Just Washed Away" along w/ the Iris track "Statements By Scientists" -- design by Dan Hardie.

Working Holiday Series - "November" [Split 7" with Pitchblende]

1994 - (Swirlies #8 - Simple Machines Records, SMWH 11) Rockin' 8-track version of never-released Swirlies classic "Trudi", recorded in the MIT dorms.

Red Fish Dreams [Split 7" with Kudgel]

1992 (Swirlies #4 - Cinderblock/Nervous Records) Head-to-head battle to the death, resulting in the death of chimp rock -- guess who killed it?

Error [7" Pop Narcotic]

1992 (Swirlies #3 - Pop Narcotic) Our first and only on Pop Narcotic 7", first utterings of "Park The Car (By The Side Of The Road)" and "Upstairs"

[7" Slumberland]

1992 (Swirlies #2 - Slumberland 15) Our first swirlie release on vinyl, with "Didn't Understand", "Sarah Sitting", and "Chris R" (on Slumberland Records) -- recorded in Mission Hill.

A Kinder Gentler Genocide [Wasted Effort Compilation 7"]

1990 (Swirlies #?- Wasted Effort) A punk 7" comp with embryonic swirlie band Raspberry Bang (w/ Damon & Seana, Rusty Nails, Anne and Jason) playing "Loose Pockets"

IV. SWIRLIES-RELATED

NEVAH HAVE I EVAH: A Sneaky Flute Empire Family Album

2001 - Richmond County Archives 001/100% Breakfast Records/Sneaky Flute Empire A compilation - 73 minutes in length (including 11 new swirlies/yes girls jams, and many others. CD art by Ron Rege Jr., handmade packaging, 500 pressed. [Free download here]

 

VN/A: 30 Minutes on the World Map

2003 (Richmond County Archives 002) Thirty-eight tracks/seventy-four minutes of glory, all recorded in under thirty minutes. Features Yes Girls/Timonium, Palomar, Burnside Project, Mixel Pixel, Pronking, and many more. Artwork by Cynthia Silva & Ron Rege. [unavailable]

 

Trollin Withdrawal (Live At WHRB 1995)

2005 (Richmond County Archives 006) The raw lit-art of Non-Robot #27 and Ron Rege (with assistance from Bunny Bernick). The seminal WHRB recordings in their entirety, culled from a moldy cassette. [Free download here]

 

BUCK WILD!: The Saga of Jacky Bucky

2005 (Richmond County Archives 007) Hear the entire twenty song tale of Jack Bucky, the leader of a deer rebellion. Features songs that helped ruin many a Swirlies show as well as a perfectly good album by The Yes Girls. Deer camo designed by Jamie Gannon. [Free download here]

 

VN/A: (Do the Ostrich * 11) + others

2005 (Richmond County Archives 003/SFE #012) Vaguely defined as Strop O, this compilation features versions of 'Do the Ostrich', a song by Lou Reed's early band The Primitives. Contributors include Tentacles, the Progress Report, Swirlies, and more. Art features the photograph of an ostrich statuette mailed without packaging from The Elm City to the City of Brotherly Love, courtesy of the United States Postal Service and Sean of Defcon Five. Our brethren and soeuren. [Free download here]

V. Damon's collector scum discography -- v.2005-4

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