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Trashcan Sinatras
Zebra of the Family
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Obscurity Knocks [Shabby Road Demo]
2. Maybe I Should Drive [Radio Session]
3. Thrupenny Tears [Radio Session]
4. Even the Odd [Shabby Road Demo]
5. The Best Man's Fall [Rehearsal Tape]
6. Funny [Radio Session]
7. Only Tongue Can Tell [Shabby Road Demo]
8. You Made Me Feel [Radio Session]
9. January's Little Joke [Shabby Road Demo]
10. Spy Theme [Shabby Road Recording]
11. Easy Read [Shabby Road Demo]
12. Iceberg [Shabby Road Demo]
13. Hayfever [Shabby Road Demo]
14. Bloodrush in Vain [Shabby Road Demo]
15. Worked a Miracle [Shabby Road Demo]
16. I'm Immortal [Shabby Road Demo]
17. One at a Time [Shabby Road Demo]
18. I've Seen Everything [Shabby Road Demo]
19. The Hairy Years [Shabby Road Demo]
20. Earlies [Acoustic Demo/Shabby Road Demo]
21. Friendless, Hopeless Days [Shabby Road Recording]
Track Listings (19) - Disc #2
1. Blowing Up [Shabby Road Recording]
2. I'm the One Who Fainted [Shabby Road Demo]
3. Outside [Shabby Road Recording]
4. Twisted and Bent [4-Track Demo]
5. Unfortunate Age [Shabby Road Demo]
6. To Sir, With Love [David Arnold Version]
7. The Main Attraction [Shabby Road Demo]
8. How Can I Apply [Chords/Shabby Road Demo]
9. The Pop Place [Shabby Road Recording]
10. The Genius I Was [Rehearsal/4-Track Demo]
11. The Sleeping Policeman [Shabby Road Demo]
12. I'll Get Them In [Shabby Road Demo]
13. The Safecracker [Shabby Road Demo]
14. The Therapist [Shabby Road Demo]
15. Homeless [Shabby Road Demo]
16. Aberration
17. Safeway [Shabby Road Demo]
18. A Worm with a Head [Shabby Road Demo]
19. Weightlifting 1 [Shabby Road Demo]

CD Details

All Artists: Trashcan Sinatras
Title: Zebra of the Family
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bobame
Release Date: 5/4/2004
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, British Alternative, Europe, Britain & Ireland, Adult Alternative
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 687474070724, 766481370543

Synopsis

Album Description

This live and rare collection was compiled by T.C.S. in December 2002 through January 2003 from old cassettes, 4 track demos and shabby road recordings. The 40-tracks feature demo versions or radio sessions of nearly every song from the first three albums, plus some b-sides, as well as previously unreleased songs. The set runs nearly 150 minutes and comes in a slimline jewel case including 6 pages of track-by-track liner notes written by the band. Highlights include, 'To Sir With Love' (Alternate Version), 'Obscurity Knocks' (Shabby Road Demo), 'Weightlifting 1' (Shabby Road Demo) 'Twisted and Bent' (4-track Demo) and much more. Bo Bame Records. 2003. * Please note sound quality does very depending on the source.

CD Reviews

Ignore the sound quality

the silliest gal | Orlando-ish, FL | 10/22/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I felt like quite the fool yesterday... i was in my local indie record shop looking around, and i thought i was seeing things when i saw a label that said "Trashcan sinatras". these guys were my favorite band throughout high school, and then i thought they fell off the face of the earth. I almost never buy double albums and bsides and such, but i HAD to this time, and i am so glad i did. It is so interesting to hear and even read about how the songs changed once the band got into the studio to record those 3 albums that the songs came from... The sound quality is pretty darn bad for many songs, but any fan can look past that. Just buy this album, and the new one, and the other double, and ANYTHING by this band so that they keep putting out music!"

Make yourself at home

Edna Lake | USA | 07/28/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Part of what makes Zebra of the Family worth buying for even a casual TCS fan (are there such people? I doubt it) is that the Trashees rework songs often radically between early incarnations and later ones. The instrumental "Outside," for example, which opened the band's 1996 release "A Happy Pocket," appears on Zebra of the Family as a song with lyrics, and with a duet by Frank Reader and his sister, Eddi. The album is also endearing for its glimpses inside the band's creative process, banging out song fragments in their (now dearly departed) Shabby Road studios, which served as both studio and home for many of the members at various times. Listening to Frank plink away on the piano over the sound of his doorbell ringing, or to the charmingly trippy original version of "I've Seen Everything" is worth the price."