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Songs To Live And Die For |
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The slightly “lo-fi” remake of the even more “lo-fi” 1985 cassette. More angry punk rock stuff.
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Strange Salvage |
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Some four-track cassette demos I concocted for Surfer Rex, in which I attempt to play lead guitar.
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Electronic tape noise experiment mistakes. What I sometimes do in my spare time.
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Life is Sad |
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Life is Sad
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Songs To Get Depressed About |
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Songs To Get Depressed About
The remake of the tape I made in 1983. These are songs I wrote during my youth in the late 70's and early 80's, played and recorded with relative adult professionalism. The songs are serious, melodic, and/or rocking, and concern matters of restlessness, rebellion, and the questioning that arises when one is confronted with the disappointments that life likes to offer. Also songs about cows, doors, and bricks.
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Eliminate Freedom |
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Eliminate Freedom
Some songs taking a hard look at the self-deception caused by misguided belief in government, civilization, and idealism. Rock tunes untidily spattered with musical "jimmies". The title track addresses an unfortunate trend in contemporary America.
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Beatiful Frustration |
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Beautiful Frustration
A "demo" showing what I would sound like if/when I ever/will perform live solo. A departure from the usual Rip Smops maximalist multitrack approach: just keyboard or guitar and singing. Some songs from "The Sound No One Wants To Hear" and others.
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Enlightened Oberlin |
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Enlightened Oberlin
Four songs written and recorded in mid-2001 with Brazilian keyboardist Luciano Cordoni. A couple of songs about my town and a couple of more personal songs. Brazilian-tinged funk, reggae, and punk sounds.
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My Heterosexual Girlfriend |
A mini compilation assembled in 2000 of some of my "catchier" songs, each intended for inclusion on one of several unfinished future albums. | ||
| 1 -- | CHASING THE COWS Human civilization is artificial and some sensitive artists need to escape into a more believable species of socialization. Written on a cow farm in upstate New York.  Click for Lyrics
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MY HETEROSEXUAL GIRLFRIEND |
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| 3 -- | HOBO DELI In New Paltz, New York in the early 80's was a grocery named Hobo Deli, where local and traveling vagabonds would hang out on the front steps. I was thrown out of town before having an opportunity to sample the range of their products, so I wrote a phantasmagoric ditty imagining what they might have offered. Click for Lyrics
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| 4 -- | WINDOW Living in a large city can be very limiting and belittling. Many developments occur over which no one has control. Click for Lyrics |
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DROP OUT OF YOUR MIND |
Recorded 1989-1990 in Jersey City with guitarist/keyboardist Ira Dostioffski. Bouncy, comical, diverse, childishly weird. This is probably the closest I'll get to having made a "pop" album. With ventures into reggae, punk, fake jazz, regular rock, old style electronic, ice cream truck music, and ten second songs. | ||
| 1 -- | I LOVED YOU BEFORE WE WERE BORN A cute bouncy love song about a happy couple with a trusting dog.
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WIRING YOUR OWN FOOTSWITCH |
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 Frequent Ruins |
Recorded 1985-1993, in Nashville and San Francisco. A completely interactionless collaboration with Nashville Symphony Orchestra cellist Stephen Drake. In 1987 he sent me a tape of some instrumental tracks of some tunes he had thought up and titled. He suggested that I add my own tracks to complete them. I had been enjoying driving around Nebraska a bit in those days, and I decided that all the songs should be about Nebraska. I came up with a vague story concept about a discouraged rock and roll drifter who finds an abandoned farm house. I kept the original song titles, and gave myself the challenge of writing lyrics about Nebraska that incorporated titles that didn't suggest anything remotely relating to Nebraska. The music is sometimes synthesizery, sometimes rocking, sometimes quiet, sometimes in between. | ||
| 1 -- | WALL DRUM A descriptive song portraying details of Nebraska's landscape.
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COLE SLAW SONG (excerpt) |
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The Sound No One Wants To Hear |
Recorded 1987-1993 in San Francisco. Everything on it entirely done by Rippy. My large scale expression of frustration, depression, anger towards society, and general negativity. Musically based on hardcore punk, taking its energy, speed and brevity, and then adding a strong dose of determined musical creativity. I tried to blow the lid off that old shit. This is MUSIC, and it is FAST and ANGRY. Lots of drums, words, keyboards, noises, guitars, kalimbas. People call it "Lo-Fi". 30 one minute songs and one 4 1/2 minute song. | ||
| 1 -- | ALIEN NATION I am expected to perform incomprehensible acts in order to avoid being cast out of society. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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THE SOUND NO ONE WANTS TO MAKE |
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| 3 -- | HATRED'S THE MISSING LINK Much has been said about love's power to connect people. Hate can do the same thing, but nobody is saying anything. |
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