1994 - I Got a Lot of Anger

The album closer. This piece marked a change in our music writing process. It was the first song completely conceived after both Hughes and I had moved to New York City, and the first time our Sampler (the SP-303 at the time) was used as a key part in the songwriting process. 

1994 - Better Known as Burma

This is probably the strangest song on the album. It also happens to be the oldest. The main structure (everything but the scratching) was all put together way back when we still lived in Hattiesburg. It was one of the last two things I worked on there; the second being “When Will Then Be Now?”. It's made up of snippets from the Sonic Youth song “Shadow of a Doubt” off EVOL. Then some very subtle use of a piece from Mission of Burma's “Trem Two” off VS. And by subtle I mean even now I can't remember specifically what was sampled and where it was placed, but I do remember using that record for something.

1994 - ...Like It's Gonna Have a Baby

This song started out as kind of a joke to play between other songs in our live set. It was originally just the drums and bass, with vocal scratches. We enjoyed playing it so much at practice that we eventually decided to make it into a whole song in itself. It's all about the life cycle: Sex, Birth, Death; you know the finer things in life. 

1994 - Sensible Shoe

Originally Posted Wednesday December 26, 2007

This is a song about Benjamin Belson, a teenager who appeared in several episodes of 3-2-1 Contact in 1980. After his brief stint with the series, Benjamin went on to live a fairly mundane life. His first job out of college (MSU) was keeping the books for a large New York department store. Early in his twenties, he began investing extra money in several building projects and eventually moved on to working in real estate exclusively. He acquired all the usual amounts of money, in all the usual ways, in the usual amount of time. Our particular glance into his life this day finds him doing a little soul searching. 

Archive Post: "1994" Is Out Now!

Originally Posted Monday December 24, 2007

Well here it is! 

Archive Post: Upcoming Release

Originally Posted Friday December 21, 2007

Our first album will be available for free download and streaming on Christmas Eve! It's called 1994, it's got 7 tracks and runs for a little over 23 minutes. It's a collection of a lot of the songs we've been playing for the last year.