The Allegheny White Fish Tapes

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The Allegheny White Fish Tapes
Compilation album by
ReleasedJuly 7, 2009[1]
GenrePsychedelic rock
Lo-fi
Noise rock
Experimental
LabelRad Cult
Tobacco chronology
Fucked Up Friends
(2008)
The Allegheny White Fish Tapes
(2009)
Maniac Meat
(2010)

The Allegheny White Fish Tapes is a compilation album of Tobacco's early tapes from 1996-1999 released on July 7, 2009, described as "over 70 minutes of mostly unreleased/unheard songs. warped drum machines, purple noise, Black Flag-esque tracks, ripped cassettes, and rhythmic melodies to calm you down. Pre-vocoder & ambient and mystical synths, post-apocalyptic surrealism."

Track listing[edit]

No.TitleLength
1."Braided Cellophane"2:19
2."What You Gonna Say to Me?"1:45
3."Sunburned Face"2:38
4."The Bees Love Me"3:53
5."Left Out (The Freaky Pieces)"3:36
6."Enough to Calm You Down"4:29
7."Metal Ball Moon"1:36
8."Backwards Song #2"0:40
9."Dead Cowboy Dance (Live to Ghettoblaster)"4:01
10."The Blue Seahorse"2:46
11."4-Track Phone Mistake"1:28
12."The Love Song"2:41
13."Gonna Git You Brainwashed (Long Version)"3:49
14."Oh Shit Doug"2:47
15."I Am 6 Years Old"5:20
16."Eating Butterflies"2:46
17."I Saw Brown"4:39
18."All Songs Have an Ending"5:28
19."Too Weird to Be a Tree"3:30
20."Violet Induced Armpit"3:09
21."Friendly and Unfriendly Spiders"4:21
22."Hidden Track 1" (unlisted)0:11
23."Hidden Track 2" (unlisted, originally titled "The Goodbye Method")4:48
Total length:1:10:29
  • 1-6, 17, 18 & 23 from the album The Anti Freakout Method, released on CDR in 1999, less than 40 copies made
  • 7 & 8 from EP 1996, released on cassette in 1996, less than 20 copies made
  • 9 recorded live to ghetto blaster in 1996 with Doug and the mysterious Justin, previously unreleased
  • 10 from EP 97, released on cassette in 1997, less than 10 copies made
  • 11 recorded in 1997, previously unreleased
  • 12 from the mini album The Fucked Sound, released on cassette in 1998, less than 15 copies made
  • 13 & 14 from the album Bad Vibrations, released on cassette in 1999, less than 15 copies made
  • 15 from the Bad Vibrations sessions, previously unreleased
  • 16 released as an mp3 single in 1999
  • 17-20 from the Violet Induced Armpit: Good Songs Infinity EP, released on cassette in 1999, but never given out (track 17 was previously released on Black Moth Super Rainbow's Drippers EP)
  • 21 recorded live with drums in 1999, previously unreleased, the last recorded AWF song

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Allegheny White Fish Tapes at Amazon.com". Amazon.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.