For whatever the reason, their first album, I Become Small and Go has beckoned of late, and as utterly compelling as that record is, I'm not one to turn down the invitation. It only took me about half a decade to get around to dedicating an entry to Creeper Lagoon, so I thought I'd make it count. A very hearty thanks to the gentlemen who digitized these tracks and sent them in my direction! The audio quality on a couple tracks is slightly dodgy, but tolerable.įor a (slightly) more thorough backgrounder on the I-Rails, point your cursor to the hyperlinks in this article. Unfortunately I have no artwork to offer for this one, although from what I understand original copies did have a cassette sleeve. Song for song Valentino Says cuts the mustard, but the I-Rails would tilt in a grittier direction on their next three albums (and a 1988 7") to even more satisfying effect. In fact, the bulk of this one inadvertently fortels the mid-tempo power pop tack that the Gin Blossoms would corner the market with in the early nineties.
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If anything it was the opposite way around, with Valentino striking me as the most approachable of their four mini reel-to-reels. My original expectation was that as I went backwards with the I-Rails discography, I would encounter a rawer, more savage aesthetic that the band would eventually curtail and fine tune on each subsequent release. Being that the case, if you've already absorbed Unfocused, you might recognize two songs which actually debuted in different incarnations on Valentino, specifically "There Goes Another" and "Mercury Don't Understand."
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I've already dedicated space to the three full lengths that followed-up Valentino Says (1987's Unfocused, '89s Nine Songs From Nowhere, and their 1990 parting shot Panharmonium). This is the fourth and final leg in our tour of I-Rails cassette albums, with the last stop culminating with Valentino Says, which is actually their first release (ironic, but not when you consider I've been presenting them in reverse order).
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You'll also find my favorite Optiganally Yours tune, a rarity from ON ( Ken Andrews post- Failure project), a keeper from jangly, post-punk revivalists The Oranges Band, Sloan incognito (you guess the song!), and even a vintage 1982 interview with Ozzy Osbourne, circa the "bat" incident. Often the letter folders are heavy on cover versions, and there are no less six in this set, including okgo's live take on Elvis Costello's "Oliver's Army," an acoustic rendition of Weezer's cult classic "Across the Sea" by Ozma, and the Ohio State University Marching Band tackling "The Final Countdown." There are Love and Beach Boys covers in there as well, but I shan't give away who does those. As was the case with the two previous entries I'm not going to publish the track list, but I will give away a few spoilers. These random one-offs have been corralled into "letter folders" A through Z. For almost every complete album I have by an artist on my hard drive, I store just as many random one-off songs by artists I don't have a dedicated folder to. Adhering to the same theme as my " H" and " P" folder mixes from a few months back, this sixteen song collection of disparate artists have only one thing in common - the first letter of their respective monikers. In the meantime I hope this self-curated mix will tide you over. Well, it looks like you'll have to wait another day for me to get off my lazy duff and compile my best-ofs album list for 2011.