ORANGER Doorway To Norway 1998

 

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Artist Biography

by Mario Mesquita Borges

Representing ingenious kaleidoscopic conceptions, supported by guitar strains inspired on the foremost indie pop preferences, Oranger qualified as an additional rock psychedelia revival band in the late '90s. Oranger's set formed in San Francisco in 1997 with Mike Drake (vocals, guitar), Jim Lindsay (drums), and Matt Harris (bass, vocals). All three had previous band experience; while Drake and Harris were a part of the set of Overwhelming Colorfast, Lindsay played with the Stick Figures. At the time, the band relied on Chad Dyer on bass, before Harris was a full-time member. The year after, the crew made their first knockout while performing at the San Francisco Noise Pop Festival. It was then that Dyer decided to leave, establishing Oranger as a trio. The Bay Area team then decided it was time to do their first recordings and as a result, Doorway to Norway, their debut album released on the Pray for Mojo label, hit the record stores still in 1998. Amazing Grease reissued the album in 1999. Around this time the band added keyboardist Patrick Main to the line-up and began recording their first album. The Quitevibrationland was issued in 2000. They switched labels for their next release, 2003's Shutdown the Sun/From the Ashes of Electric Elves was issued by Jackpine Social Club. In 2005 the group streamlined their sound and that year's New Comes and Goes on Eenie Meenie is their most focused and tuneful release to date.

 

Tracklist

1		Mike Love, Not War	4:20
2		Eggtooth	3:28
3		Everything Goes Away	1:58
4		Wolfy	2:48
5		Donald, You're Freaking Out	4:16
6		Jettsett Traveler	3:00
7		Telepathic Waves	3:15
8.1		This Snake Will Kill You	4:27
8.2		(silence)	5:02
8.3		Slow Nerve Action

9:49

 

STRESS RELEASE Various Artists 1996

 

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Comp on the Slaphappy record label

 
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1	–Bison (8)	White Bronco
2	–Truck Stop Love	Still In Love
3	–Boyracer	Unlimited Options
4	–Fauna (8)	Ultraviolent
5	–Boneclub	Prayer For Apology
6	–Contraption (4)	Defense Mechanism
7	–Lotus (25)	Burnt
8	–Janitor Bob And The Armchair Cowboys	What It Is
9	–Brand New Unit	City
10	–Overwhelming Colorfast	Put Hands In Last
11	–John's Black Dirt	Everything Seemed Blue/Penitent
12	–Gravity's Pull	Radio Wasteland

OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE A Tribute To D Boon And The Minutemen 1994

 

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1	–Sparkalepsy	King Of The Hill	3:37
2	–Seam	This Ain't No Picnic	2:40
3	–Overpass	Fake Contest	1:49
4	–Hazel (4)	Storm In My House	2:04
5	–Nuzzle	Futurism Restated	0:58
6	–Oswald Five-O	Tony Gets Wasted In Pedro	1:48
7	–Joe Boon & Tony Platon	Sickles & Hammers	0:49
8	–The Brain Surgeons	Tour-Spiel	2:53
9	–The 3M Company	Search	0:58
10	–Treepeople	Shit From An Old Notebook	1:54
11	–Vida	'99	1:06
12	–Ethan James & Cindy Albon	Themselves	2:41
13	–Tsunami (6)	Courage	2:27
14	–Cellophane (6)	More Joy	1:15
15	–Strawman	Untitled Song For Latin America	2:14
16	–Meat Puppets	Price Of Paradise	3:19
17	–Crackerbash	The World According To Nouns	2:50
18	–Nels Cline Trio	Self-Referenced / West Germany	3:37
19	–Dos (4)	Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Truth?	2:01
20	–Experimental Pollen #68*	Games	1:04
21	–Overwhelming Colorfast	Corona	3:08
22	–Free Kitten	Party With Me Punker	0:56
23	–Jawbox	It's Expected I'm Gone	2:28
24	–Locos Borachos	The Product	2:41
25	–Thurston Moore	Shit You Hear At Parties	1:32
26	–Joe Baiza	9:30 May 2	0:58
27	–67 Riot	Case Closed	1:33
28	–Kaia	Stories	1:29
29	–Unwound	Plight	1:55
30	–The Meices	Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing	1:32
31	–Blowout (2)	Times	0:49
32	–Corduroy (2)	Cut	2:06
33	–Lou Barlow	Black Sheep	1:24
34	–D Boon*	Interview	8:13
35	–Minutemen	Badges	0:45

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST Two Words 1994

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1	Toss Up
2	How Ya Doin
3	Sidestick Eyepoker
4	Both Sides
5	Every Saturday
6	4 Square
7	Shadows
8	Hogabanoogen
9	Bark
10	Roy Orbison
11	How Can It Be
12	Circus II
13	Buffalo Toy
14	Strong Now
15	Ira Schrader
16	Winky Dinky Dog

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST Overwhelming Colorfast 1992

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Artist Biography

by Stewart Mason

A piledriving pop-punk band from the San Francisco suburb of Antioch, CA, Overwhelming Colorfast was a vehicle for Bob Reed, who was the band's sole permanent member. Reed looked like D. Boon from the Minutemen and sang like Bob Mould in his Hüsker Dü days, but there was a Buzzcocks-like love for sweet pop mixed in with his punky guitar roar.

After a debut 7," "It's Tomorrow," on the tiny indie Sympathy for the Record Industry in 1991, Overwhelming Colorfast signed with Relativity Records and released 1992's self-titled debut, produced by the hot record maker of the moment, Butch Vig (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, etc.). After 1993's placeholder EP Bender, Reed hooked up with kindred spirit Kurt Bloch of the Fastbacks and the Young Fresh Fellows and recorded 1994's excellent Two Words, an album that mixes pop, punk, and '70s hard rock influences in a manner similar to Redd Kross' Neurotica.

Bassist Bean and guitarist Torg Hallin split after that release, replaced by Matt Harris and Mike Drake, respectively. After the release of the Sourdough EP in 1995 (which featured a surprising cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sway"), drummer Dan Reed -- Bob's brother, not the guy who led the '80s band the Dan Reed Network -- left the group. With a temporary replacement drummer, the group recorded a full album with Bloch, but scrapped the project after Reed decided the songs and performances weren't up to snuff. After finding new drummer Alex Laipeneiks, the group recorded the far superior Moonlight and Castanets. Unfortunately, after the release of that album, Harris and Drake left the band. Rather than replace his guitarist and bassist yet again, Reed elected to simply break up the band.

Tracklist 

1	It's Tomorrow	2:12
2	Arrows	3:51
3	Forest	2:30
4	Totally Gorgeous Foreign Chick	2:56
5	Song In D	2:13
6	Try	2:37
7	Fearless	3:25
8	Veil	1:23
9	She Said, She Said	4:24
10	My Trip	2:30
11	Loser	2:52
12	Coming Down	6:03
13	Yap	2:44

OVERWHELMING COLORFAST Moonlight and Castanets 1996

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1	Starcrunch
2	Mickey's Lament
3	Shiner
4	Rocky Road
5	Bag Artist
6	7 Devils
7	Last Song
8	Margaritas For Two
9	13 Reasons
10	How It Should Be
11	Mystery Date
12	Burning Question
13	She's In Antioch