Complete Recordings, 1987-1989

Complete Recordings, 1987-1989 Artist: Donner Party
Label: Innerstate
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 714288700827
EAN: 0714288700827
ASIN: B00004SGNE


Release Date: 2000-05-23

Complete Recordings, 1987-1989


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Tracks:

  1. Before Too Long
  2. Halo
  3. Are You In Tune With Yourself?
  4. Godlike Porpoise Head Of Blue-Eyed Mary
  5. When You Die Your Eyes Pop Out
  6. The Ghost
  7. The Owl Of Minerva
  8. Oh Esmeralda
  9. John Wilkes Booth
  10. That That Is, Is
  11. Jeez Louise
  12. Spiders
  13. Surfin' To The Moon
  14. Clean Living
  15. G-L-O-R-I-A
  16. Why Bother?
  17. Sickness
  18. Up & Down
  19. Try To Imagine A Terrible World
  20. Boxfull Of Bones
  21. Mrs. Miserack
  22. What A Gush Of Matter Into Life Is Here
  23. Treepig
  24. Unfriendly
  25. Trust In Henry
  26. Friendly
  27. Lost In Hoboken
  28. Blue Starch Acid For Baby's New Tooth

Tracks:

  1. Please Don't Listen
  2. Would You Like To Have Something To Eat?
  3. When I Was A Baby
  4. Dansen Gar Pa Svennsta Skar
  5. Chocolate Shake
  6. King Chico
  7. Your Mother
  8. Harold Payne
  9. Notker The Stammerer
  10. Kore Cosmu
  11. Goodnight Irene
  12. Everyone Is A Girl
  13. Nutty Booty
  14. The Nixie
  15. We Cannot Be Happy
  16. Birthday Suit
  17. Trepanned
  18. Spiders (Live)
  19. Friendly (Live)
  20. Breakfast (Live)
  21. Treepig (Live)
  22. Sickness (Live)
  23. Goodnight Irene (Live)
  24. When I Was A Baby (Live)
  25. Squeeze Box (Live)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars when you die, your eyes pop out.......2003-04-20

I bought this lovely two-cd set on a whim. Now I'm trying to buy the original albums on vinyl. I am addicted. Pray for me.

I've been a big Quasi fan for quite some time now. I love them. Fronted by a much happier Sam Coomes, the Donner Party is a wonderful, silly band with clever lyrics, fun instrumentals, and the occasional giggle or goofy voice. The band's sound is a bit dated--sort of a cross between old R.E.M. and early Quasi with the occasional banjo or accordion thrown in--but still very enjoyable.

So, in conclusion, if you like Quasi, buy this album. Even if you don't like Quasi, buy it anyway. It's worth every penny.

5 out of 5 stars probably about time.......2000-11-27

i am really enjoying this. i can remember hearing "boxfull of bones" on the radio in lexington, kentucky when i was in junior high and calling in to get them to play it again so i could tape it. only once did i find a donner party tape (i guess the first), but it didnt have "boxfull of bones" so i didnt buy it. whoops. i then found they were hard to come by when i did look for some of their music again in the future. kindof a, that song, that song, who was that band? oh yeah... cant find'm. but i guess thanks to innerstate they are resurrected. there is a certain pureness to these recordings... later bands like the hilltops from oxford, mississippi (later to become members of wilco and blue mountain) pulled off this sound some, and i doubt theyd ever heard of the donner party. it's an evident sound of those influenced by early 80s punk as well as more roots rock type stuff and/or country, and even early-REM etc... some critic types may hear this and label it alt-country or whatever... but it's not, and if so, way ahead of its time. this is the real deal. music for the love of making music. no one cares what label is put on it at this point. it's just the donner party. not the one that had to eat some of their frozen fellows up near truckee, but the other one. thanks innerstate for putting this out...... now, 11 or so years after i heard of this band, i finally got around to buying something, and all of it at that.

5 out of 5 stars DonnerPartyDonnerPartyDonnerParty!!!.......2000-07-22

This has to be one of my favorite bands of all time. For neigh on 10 years I have been placing notes on the net looking for their first record (released in 1987 and absolutely unobtainable). I've done innumerable searches & learned more than I ever wanted to know about cannibalism in early America--but, this is all irrelevant. They combine sweet folky music & straighforward rock with- er, well, some unusual lyrics. If you like Dogbowl, and early King Missle you will love these guys as well. I'm soooo happy that their material has been rereleased!

5 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Dream Arcade ~ Railway Children
  2. Beyond the Darkness ~ Balzac
  3. Perfect Day for Stars
  4. World on a Wire ~ Marc Carroll
  5. At Rollin' Rock: Las Vegas Stomp ~ Mack Stevens
  6. Bleachin the Blues ~ Tony McPhee
  7. I Love Math ~ I Love Math
  8. 360 Business/360 Bypass ~ Pan American
  9. Dance With The Guitar Man/Twistin' & Twangin' ~ Duane Eddy
  10. Creation of Sunlight ~ Creation of Sunlight

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Pieces of Dreams ~ Stanley Turrentine

Sun Song ~ Sun Ra

Claude Williamson Mulls the Mulligan Scene ~ Claude Williamson

50 Years of Jazz Guitar ~ Various Artists

Spirit of 176 ~ George Shearing and Hank Jones

Genius 2000 ~ Namie Amuro

Die Karawane Zieht Weiter ~ Hoehner

Munnharpa ~ Hallgrim Berg & Erik Roine

Rock N Roll Summit ~ Various Artists

Saishin Hit Zenkyokushu 16 ~ Junko Ishihara