Early Plague Years
by Thinking Plague
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 19 September 2000
- Label: Cuneiform
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:17:46
- Community rating: 3.81/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Susanne Lewis, Mark McCoin, Mark Fuller, Eric Moon, Katie Floyd, Sharon Bradford, Bill Ellsworth, Harry Fleishman, Bob Drake, Robbie Johnson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A compilation combining the Denver band's first two albums of the mid-1980s, 'A Thinking Plague' and 'Moonsongs'. Led by Mike Johnson, Thinking Plague built an American variant of the Rock in Opposition method, intricately composed avant-prog that this set returns to print.
Genres
Descriptors: complex, dissonant, avant-garde, experimental, uncommon-time-signatures
Tracklist
- Warheads (8:03)
- Etude For Combo (6:59)
- Collarless Fog That One Day Soon (3:20)
- Inside Out (4:12)
- Moonsongs (15:23)
- I Do Not Live (5:02)
- Possessed (8:17)
- How To Clean Squid (5:01)
- A Light Is On And Name The World (1:28)
- The Taste That Lingers On (2:06)
- Four Men In The Rain (2:29)
- Thorns Of Blue And Red / The War (15:26)
Credits
- Thinking Plague - primary artist, music by [improvised]
- Sharon Bradford - adapted by, music by, voice, words by, noises [noise], synth [casio mini-synth], performer ['drake noise box'], noises, performer [glasses, cat]
- Susanne Lewis - voice, words by
- Mark McCoin - sampler [cheap sampler (flute, piano)], drums, percussion, voice, sampler [cheap sampler (syllables)]
- Mark Fuller - timbales, electronic drums [simmons drums]
- Fred Hess - guest [with], alto saxophone [alto sax]
- Glenn Nitta - guest [with], soprano saxophone [soprano sax]
- Harry Fleishman - piano, organ, piano, organ, voice
- Bill Ellsworth - design, layout
- Mark Derryberry - engineer [engineered by]
- Katie Floyd - words by
- Robbie Johnson - words by