Shockabilly Discography
Eugene Chadbourne - guitar/electric rake/vocals Mark Kramer - bass/organ/tapes/vocals David Licht - drums/percussionThe Dawn of Shockabilly EP
1982 12" - Rough Trade Records - RT 120T - UK - PS
side 1
Psychotic Reaction (Count Five)
Heart Full of Soul (Yardbirds)
Train Kept A Rollin' (Yardbirds)
side 2
A Hard Day's Night (Beatles)
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
Notes:
Later included on various repackagings:
* Earth Vs. the Dawn of Shockabilly
* Live...Just Beautiful
* The Ghost of Shockabilly
19th Nervous Breakdown (single)
1983 7" - Rough Trade Records - RT 127 - UK - PS
side 1
19th Nervous Breakdown (Jagger/Richards)
side 2
City Of Corruption
Notes: Two tracks from the Earth Vs. Shockabilly LP.
Earth Vs. Shockabilly LP
1983 LP - Rough Trade Records - ROUGH 48 - UK
Side 1
Day Tripper (Lennon/McCartney)
Are You Experienced (Hendrix)
Burma Shave (Roger Miller)
City of Corruption
Bluegrass Breakdown (Monroe)
Party House Pt. 3 In 3-D
People Are Strange (Krieger/Morrison)
Pyschedelic Basement
Side 2
Purple Haze (Hendrix)
19th Nervous Breakdown (Jagger/Richards)
Tennessee Flat Top Box (J.Cash)
Oh Yoko! (Lennon)
Big Money Broad
Wrestling Woman
Outro (Beethoven/Shockabilly)
Notes:
Later reissued on the Ghost of Shockabilly CD set.
Greatest Hits EP
1983 12" - Red Music - EP006 - USA - PS
Side 1
Bluegrass Breakdown
Burma Shave
Voodoo Vengeance
Side 2
People Are Strange (Doors)
Wrestling Woman
Train
Greatest Hits takes two tracks each from the two preceding UK releases
and adds two stunning new live tracks, "Voodoo Vengeance" and a nearly
unrecognizable version of the Doors' "People Are Strange."
Colosseum
1984 LP - Rough Trade Records - ROUGH 88 - UK
Our Daily Lead
Byob Club
Roman Man
Too Big for It's Cage
Eight Miles High (Clark/Crosby/McGuinn)
Dang Me (R.Miller)
Secret of the Cooler
Hattiesburg, Miss.
You Dungeon My Brain
Homeward Bound (Paul Simon)
National Bummer
"Dang Me" and "Eight Miles High" also done on Live...Just Beautiful
Colosseum was paired with the earlier LP Earth Vs. Shockabilly on the two-fer CD
set Ghost of Shockabilly.
Vietnam
1984 LP - Fundamental Records - SAVE 1 - US/UK - w/ tour diary poster
Pile Up All Architecture
Born on the Bayou (J.Fogerty)
Your U.S.A. And My Face
Vietnam
Flying (Harrison/Lennon/McCartney)
Nicaragua
Paris
Iran into Tulsa
Georgia in a Jug (Braddock)
Lucifer Sam (Syd Barrett)
Signed D.C. (Arthur Lee)
"Nicaragua" features guest vocalist Ed Sanders of the Fugs
Heaven
1985 LP - Fundamental Records - SAVE 8 - US/UK LP - Torso Records - ??? - NL
Instant Karma (Lennon)
She Was A Living, Breathing Piece Of Dirt (Chadbourne)
Red Headed Stranger (Calisch/Stutz)
When You Dream About Bleeding (Chadbourne)
Tau & The Soldier (Kramer)
Life's a Gas (Bolan)
Tray-Panning the Man (Kramer)
Hendrix Buried In Tacoma (Chadbourne)
How Can You Kill Me, I'm Aleady Dead (Chadbourne)
Vampire Tiger Girl Strikes Again (Chadbourne)
Pity Me, Sheena (Kramer)
Happy New Year (Chadbourne)
Our Metempsychosis (Kramer)
In Search of Shockabilly
1988 K7 - Sound & Fury Records - ??? - US
Notes: Live compilation
Vietnam (remix) / Heaven (remix)
1990 K7 - Shimmy Disc - SHM5026 - US 1990 CD - Shimmy Disc - SHM5026 - US 1990 CD - Shimmy Disc Europe - 9026CD - Europe
Tracks:
Pile Up All Architecture
Born on the Bayou
Your U.S.A. and My Face
(I Don't Wanna Go To) Vietnam
Flying
Nicaragua
Paris
Iran into Tulsa
Georgia in a Jug
Lucifer Sam
Signed D.C.
Heaven Instant Krama
She Was a Living, Breathing Piece of Dirt
Red Headed Stranger
When You Dream About Bleeding
Tau and the Soldier
Life's a Gas
Tray-Panning the Man
Hendrix Buried in Tacoma
How Can You Kill Me, I'm Already Dead
Vampire Tiger Girl Strikes Again
Pity Me Sheena
Happy New Year
Our Metempsychosis
Tracks 1-11 from Vietnam
Tracks 12-24 from Heaven
In 1990, Shimmy Disc remixed and reissued "Vietnam" (1984) and "Heaven" (1985)
together on cassette and CD:
"The final two albums by the avant rock trio Shockabilly were their
creative high points, the albums where their combination of silly,
antic humor and experimental noise finally truly came together. It's
not that these albums are any less goofy than what had come before --
guitarist Eugene Chadbourne still sings a lot of the songs in those
silly cartoon voices that Primus stole outright, and bassist Kramer
introduces that bizarre sped-up voice that he later used on the
Bongwater records with Ann Magnuson. New drummer David Licht, who
became an integral part of Kramer's world starting with these records,
gives the band more of a rock & roll wallop, the same sort of heft
that Sonic Youth suddenly gained when Steve Shelley joined. These are
still self-consciously abrasive, "difficult" records filled with
alternately giggly and creepy sound collages, but songs like "How Can
You Kill Me, I'm Already Dead" (a disturbing musical recasting of some
of Charles Manson's public rants) and Kramer's unexpectedly bouncy
"Pity Me Sheena" have a musical presence and authority that
Shockabilly's earlier records lacked."--blurb
The Ghost of Shockabilly
1989 CD - Shimmy Disc Europe - SDE 8906 - Netherlands 1993 CD - Shimmy Disc - 5017 - US
Tracks 1-14 from EARTH VS. SHOCKABILLY (1982)
Tracks 15-25 from SHOCKABILLY COLOSSEUM (1983)
Live...Just Beautiful
1990 LP - Shimmy Disc - SHIMMY 027 - US - 17 tracks 1990 CD - Shimmy Disc - 8914 - US - 27 tracks 1990 K7 - Shimmy Disc - SHIMMY 027CS - US - 28 tracks
1. Intro (Chadbourne, Kramer, Licht)
2. Georgia in a Jug (Braddock)
3. Eight Miles High (Clark, Crosby, McGuinn)
4. Plunger Routine/A Whiter Shade of Pale (Chadbourne, Kramer, Licht)
5. Are You Experienced? (Hendrix)
6. Burma Shave (Miller)
7. Rake (Birdcage Routine) (Chadbourne, Kramer, Licht)
8. Outro (Chadbourne, Kramer, Licht)
9. Oh Yoko! (Lennon)
10. Dang Me (Miller)
11. Lucifer Sam (Barrett)
12. Nobody's Place (Chadbourne, Kramer, Licht)
13. Heart Full of Soul (Gouldman)
14. Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (Sherrill, Sutton)
15. Psychotic Reaction (Count Five)
16. A Hard Day's Night (Lennon, McCartney)
17. The Train Kept a Rollin' (Bradshaw, Kay, Mann)
CD bonus tracks
18. Purple Haze (Hendrix)
19. Big Money Broad (Chadbourne)
20. People Are Strange (Doors)
21. Only Hell My Momma Ever Raised
22. West Virginia Special (traditional)
23. Heartfull of Stone (Gouldman)
24. Voodoo Vengeance (Chadbourne)
25. Homeward Bound (Simon)
26. Cops Vs. Guardian Angels (Chadbourne)
27. The Train Kept a Rollin' (Bradshaw, Kay, Mann)
28. National Bummer
K7 bonus tracks
Tracks 18-28 (not listed) from SHOCKABILLY COLOSSEUM (1983)
LP Tracks 1-12 recorded live 1984-85 Austria/Germany/USA
LP Tracks 13-17 are 1989 remixes of the "Dawn Of Shockabilly" EP.
CD bonus tracks 18-28
The cassete issue has tracks 1-17 on side A while the B-side
has the entire SHockabilly Colosseum LP.
"Live Just Beautiful is an expanded edition of the Dawn of Shockabilly EP, with
12 previously unreleased tracks from 1984-85 tours. It consists almost entirely
of cover songs, yet it could never be mistaken for the work of any band except
Shockabilly. Little is kept sacred in their versions of tunes by Jimi Hendrix,
Roger Miller, John Lennon, and others, with Eugene Chadbourne's shrieking,
maniacal guitar work and Kramer's anarchic tape noises leaving indelible marks
everywhere they go. The recording quality is less than professional, but it fits
well with the noisy, verging-on-chaos nature of the performances. Standout
moments include Chadbourne's hallucinogenic guitar solo on the Byrds' "Eight
Miles High" and a ridiculous medley of Procol Harum, Hall & Oates, and Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young featuring Chadbourne on the electric plunger. There is
plenty of stage banter in between songs, as well as a few skit-type routines,
which mock record label executives, critics, and concert promoters. These
moments tend to have a silly tone and are often funny, but they also emphasize
the frustration and antagonism the band was experiencing at the time. These
factors, along with the occasional hostile audience member, actually seemed to
inspire them to greater, more outlandish heights, and the result is very
arguably the ultimate Shockabilly recording.
The CD adds a further 10 tracks."--blurb
ShockaprilfoolsAbilly: Shockabilly Live 1983
2006 CDR - Chadula - 1983A - USA
CDR in a cardboard sleeve with Dr. Chad's unique packaging.
Recorded live April fools day 1983.
Tracks: Criss-Cross
Thelonious Monk tribute LP.
Two years after the death of pianist-composer Thelonious Monk, this very unusual
and quite memorable double-LP tribute was put together. Producer Hal Willner's
most successful project, the 23 interpretations of Monk originals all feature a
different group of all-star players and stretch beyond jazz. Some of the
performances are fairly straightforward while others are quite eccentric;
certainly the crazy duet on "Four in One" by altoist Gary Windo and Todd
Rundgren (on synthesizers and drum machines) and the version of "Shuffle Boil"
featuring John Zorn on game calls (imitating the sound of ducks) are quite
unique. There are many colorful moments throughout the project and the roster of
musicians is remarkable: Bobby McFerrin with Bob Dorough, Peter Frampton, Joe
Jackson, Steve Lacy, Dr. John, Gil Evans, Randy Weston, Roswell Rudd, Eugene
Chadbourne and Shockabilly, the Fowler Brothers, NRBQ, Steve Khan, Carla Bley,
Barry Harris, Was (Not Was) and many others. There is not a slow moment or
uninteresting selection on this highly recommended set.
The cassette-only companion to the critically acclaimed LP. One hour of vintage
audio madness that features even more live Snakefinger, former Henry Cow
mastermind Tim Hodginson, live Shockabilly, and a slew of indie cassette
favorites.