Just maybe don't take his advice on album covers. Check it out, and hey, maybe you should have him record your next album, too. 1, "the first in a series of music that is fit for the days we live in." I'm sure it's a light, bubbly listen. Most recently, he released a solo album titled Experiments of the Spectral Order Vol. Includes unlimited streaming of 8-Way Santa (Deluxe Edition. This material has been out of print on vinyl/CD for many years, and this is the first digital release for the bonus content. Tad himself - aka Thomas Andrew Doyle - is still going strong. CD includes tracks from the Jinx single, a 1990 EP, and a handful of unreleased album demos recorded by Jack Endino. A single from this album, "Jack Pepsi," got the band sued by Pepsi. I imagine this was a huge story in the Seattle rock world in the early '90s. One interesting thing here is that one DJ (our friend Creed), seems to have had an inkling that the banning was coming. But even though listeners of later years get a lesser piece of artwork to go along with the record, the music could not be diminished. They couldn't resist using it as their album cover, and somehow - in those long-ago days before everything was everywhere on the Internet - the couple in question saw the cover, sued the band (and probably Sub Pop), and the cover was changed. I've been doing this series for a looooong time, and I think this is the first banned album cover I've come across! The original cover photo, which we see here, was apparently a thrift-store score on the part of the band. Welcome to Review Revue, where every Thursday I dig through the KEXP stacks to share DJ reviews and comments written on the covers of LPs (and occasionally CDs) in the ’80s and ’90s, when the station was called KCMU, the DJs were volunteers, and people shared their opinions on little white labels instead of the internet.
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