SR XLVIII: Our Jimmies Are Eternal

You make me smile
You make me move my arms and hands
You make me Act like a scitzophernic
You make me Sing about you

 

You make me cry into my pilow
You make me shoot guns
You make me, You make me you make me, you make me
You make me go insane

 

You make me talk, talk, talk
You make me talk, talk, scream in anger, scream at the world
Talk, talk, talk
You make me talk, scream, work

 

Ever listened to Varese?

 

Multi-speed Casstte Recorder was an avant-garde classical and
progressive rock band from Manchester, Missouri. They formed in
1978, and were made up of Mike Chesterfield on guitar, vocals,
and keyboards, Sebastion Lell on bass, and Derek Jefferson on
drums. The three released "The Swan Tree" in 1980. It was not
well recived by most critics, mostly due to it's Progressive
rock sound, which got the band being accused of being "stuck in
the past". Only one song, "To Kill, to Sleep", had vocals.

 

-The Swan Tree-
1.Mysterious Other                    8:19
2.Get Ready for Something     12:39
3.To Kill, to Sleep                    10:30
4.The Swan Tree                       8:42

 

Sebastion's brother, Luke, joined the band on guitar and
keyboards. The band then released "Walk". The album had a more
avant-garde feel. The completely instrumental album recived poor
reviews, but an avant-garde jazz and classical magazine in New
York "The Other in" did a 4/5 star review of the album, which
gave the album more than double sales than thier debut.

 

-Walk-
1.Dead Trees                  22:19
2.Walking                          8:07
3.Slowing Down                8:58

 

By thier third album, "Sdiers" (pronounced Sid-ears), the band
had lost thier prog style and became completely focused on more
avant works. The band had abandoned all keyboards and began
using new techuniques of playing thier instruments. They also
had much more improvisation. The album features much more vocal
tracks than thier previous albums, the only instrumentals being
the title track and "Running With People". Chesterfield adopted
an angrier vocal style, and also added improvised inchoerant
yells throughout the songs. They still did not recive positive
mainstream reviews, but were even more well recived in the Avant
community than before.

 

-Sdiers-
1.Sdiers                            4:55
2.Picture Perfect             19:11
3.Rising Up                     11:43
4.Running With People     7:15

 

In 1984, the quartet released thier final album. The first two
continue with the avant styles of the previous album, and "Ego-
maniac", the only vocal song on the album, continuing with
Chesterfield's angry vocals and improvised yells. "Returning"
is a rerecorded version of an un-named instrumental recorded
during the sessions for "The Swan Tree", named "Returning"
because the song was a return to thier proggier style.

 

-Outoverandthesongsof-
1.Egomaniac                         7:20
2.Wrong Time Listed           17:20
3.Returning                           7:19

 

*On the original vinyl release of "Outoverandthesongsof",
"Egomaniac" and "Wrong Time Listed" were flipped. When the album
was re-released on CD in 1987, the songs were put in the order
the band oringinaly wanted.

 

Multi-speed Cassette Players dissolved in 1985. When asked why
in a 1992 interview, Jefferson said they all wanted to take a
break and do thier own projects. They planed on getting back
together at some point, but it is unkown if they ever will.

Anyway, if y'all like dope music y'all should check out Gardenella.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gardenella/

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