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Abridged Perversion (A Shrimper Compilation Of Shrimper Compilations) (1994) [Brinkman/Shrimper, BRCD018/SHR98, CD]

1. Unknown Artist - Colonial Awards Of 1984
2. The Extra Glenns - Badger Song
3. The Bux - Holiday
4. Nothing Painted Blue - Big Pink Heart
5. Sentridoh - Certain Dance - Circumstance
6. Goosewind - Manny's Mote
7. Shoeface - Future Shock
8. Will Simmons - 50 Miles
9. Insect Feelings - Zisk
10. The Mountain Goats - The Window Song
11. Junket - Tiresome
12. Massengil - Premature Cheese
13. Joey Burns (Creamy Original) - Do It All The Time
14. Wckr Spgt - Fluffy Cat
15. Punk Rock - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
16. Diskothi-Q - Pork Chop
17. Franklin Bruno - Clean Needle
18. Halo - Fever Pitch
19. Paste - Hips
20. Primordial Undermind - Delerium Insomniacal
21. Guffey - Creepy
22. Refrigerator - Map To The Stars
23. Simon Wickham Smith* With Bill + Karl - Finnish But Not Finnished
24. John Davis - I Had A Dream I Was Down By The Ocean
25. Ah Bus - Fisherman's Friend
26. Buzzsaw - Die Rote Luft
27. Bugskull - You Don't Know
28. The Jim Bishop Guitar Army - Untitled
29. Carne-a - Canker Town
30. Satnam Puppets - Guitar In Room P.7
31. Jive - Old Family Box
32. Party Of One - Throwaway
33. Lil' Johnny H - Incomplete #1
34. Lou Barlow - Revolution #37

Personnel notes from the booklet:

• Jive: Craig, Dan, Eli, John
• Carne-A: Chris, Ian, Jeremy, Bill
• Punk-Rock: Dennis, Eli, Norio
• The Bux credit Nia on piano and Jim on saxophone.
• Insect Feelings cite to Baby Huey, and they're given the description "Exploding at Le Chateau"
• Satnam Puppets get "The James"
• Party of One is listed as "Hardcore Hughes" due to the track coming from the Hard Core Acoustic compilation; Joey Burns similarly gets"Hardcore Burns". A little shared territory for two Nothing Painted Blue bassists...
• The Extra Glenns note misspells John's last name
• Goosewind is listed as Rick, Paul + Daisy
• Spgt's "Fluffy Cat" credits "VF" alongside standard members Joel, Mark, Dave, and Kyle. VF is Victor Frankl. 

Until I cover a Lil Johnny H/John Harrelson tape, I won't have anywhere else to put this, so I'd like to link here to the Treasury Of Claremont Music's page on Harrelson's life and music. 

This compilation-of-compilations made the following selections from available Shrimper compilations:

• From SHR01 Winky Dog, we have:
  • "Holiday" by The Bux (listed on Winky Dog as "Dumb Holiday")
  • "Clean Needle" by Franklin Bruno
  • "Die Rote Luft" by Buzzsaw
• From SHR15 Capgun:
  • "Fever Pitch" by Halo
  • "Old Family Box" by Jive
• From SHR20 Back To The Egg, Asshole (no index page):
  • "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" by Punk Rock
  • "Revolution #37" by Lou Barlow
• From SHR701 Ghost Of A Rollercoaster: 
  • Wckr Spgt's "Fluffy Cat"
  • Refrigerator's "Map To The Stars"
  • Guffey's "Creepy"
  • Satnam Puppets' "Guitar In Room P.7".
• Nine (!) songs are from SHR28 Pawnshop Reverb:
  • "Certain Dance - Circumstance" by Sentridoh 
  • "Manny's Mote" by Goosewind
  • "Future Shock" cover by Shoeface
  • "Zisk" by Insect Feelings
  • "The Window Song" by the Mountain Goats
  • "Delirium Insomnaical" by the Primordial Undermind
  • "Untitled" by Jim Bishop
  • "Canker Town" by Carne-A
  • "Incomplete #1" by Lil' Johnny H.
• From SHR704 Swing Set:
  • "Big Pink Heart" by Nothing Painted Blue
  • "You Don't Know" by Bugskull
  • "Finnish But Not Finished" by Simon Wickham Smith with Bill + Karl, which is listed as just the artist sans track name on the back of the CD, due to length.
• From SHR32 High Fly Graveyard, we have:
  • "Badger Song" by the Extra Glenns
  • "Premature Cheese" by Massengil
  • "50 Miles" by Will Simmons
  • "Tiresome" by Junket
  • "Pork Chop" by Diskothi-Q
  • "Fisherman's Friend" by Ah Bus.
• From SHR37 Hard Core Acoustic (no index page), almost the whole tape made it in:
  • "I Had A Dream I Was Down By The Ocean" by John Davis
  • "Hips" by Paste
  • "Do It All The Time" by Joey Burns
  • "Throwaway" by Party of One.

ANYWAY IN SUMMARY, just for fun. You've seen what DID make the cut, now here are the 1993-and-earlier tape/7" Shrimper comp recordings not yet reissued or recompiled to CD to my knowledge. Some ended up on other CD releases (the Mountain Goats' "Going To Maine" from Hard Core Acoustic for example is on a mg-specific CD comp, so not listed here) and which you would have to go hunt down, until or unless (cough, cough) they were to be recompiled like the above inclusions:

Songs by Refrigerator-related acts:

• The Bux - Dear John (PSST)
• Paste - Exercise 21 (WINKY)
• Paste - Dumb (CAPGUN)
• Paste - Purple Heart (PAWNSHOP)
• Paste - Tuesday (SWING)
• Refrigerator - State Trooper (CAPGUN)
• Refrigerator - Map To The Stars (GHOST)
• Refrigerator - Judy Blank (PAWNSHOP)

Songs by Satnam Puppets:

• Satnam Puppets - I Am So Happy (PSST)
• Satnam Puppets - 2 (WINKY)
• Satnam Puppets - Plastic Headed Tramp (CAPGUN)
• Satnam Puppets - Heckle (PAWNSHOP)

Songs by Jim Bishop:

• Jim Bishop - Part of, But Not All of 1 (PSST)
• Jim Bishop - Part of, Not All of 2 (WINKY)
• Jim Bishop - Untitled (CAPGUN)
• Jim Bishop Guitar Army - Untitled (CAPGUN)
• Jim Bishop - 05 (GHOST)

Songs by Shoeface:

• Shoeface - Rollin' In The Dough (WINKY)
• Shoeface - Time To Develop (CAPGUN)
• Shoeface - I Hate The Government (GHOST)

Songs by Wckr Spgt: 

• Wckr Spgt - A Thousand Hail Mary's (WINKY)
• Wckr Spgt - 3 Ways to Love Me (CAPGUN)
• Wckr Spgt - Making Love Will Cure My Sick Heart (PAWNSHOP)

Songs by Buzzsaw: 

• Buzzsaw - Helmet (CAPGUN)
• Buzzsaw - Untitled (PAWNSHOP)
• Buzzsaw - War Of Poems (SWING)

Songs by Halo:

• Halo - Around + Around (WINKY)
• Halo - L Wheel (GHOST)
• Halo - The River Runs Back (PAWNSHOP)

Songs by Nothing Painted Blue: 

• Nothing Painted Blue - Caprice Cadillac (WINKY)
• Nothing Painted Blue - Sugarlift (PAWNSHOP)
• Nothing Painted Blue - A Lesser Charge (CAPGUN)
• Franklin Bruno - Love Tap (CAPGUN)
• Franklin Bruno - Lifetime Seance (GHOST)
• Franklin Bruno - Rhythm Buddy (PAWNSHOP)

Songs by Massengil:

• Massengil - Par Four (HIGH FLY)
• Massengil - Premature Cheese (HIGH FLY)

Songs by Welfare: 

• Welfare - An Earlier Session (CAPGUN)
• Welfare - Welfare (WINKY)

Songs by Sentridoh: 

• Sentridoh - Commercial Losers: Sensitive Dullthump, King Of The Dry Hump 1 (CAPGUN)
• Sentridoh - Me And My Arrow (GHOST)

Others:

• Diskothi-Q - Bad Apples (HIGH FLY)
• The Extra Glenns - That (HIGH FLY)
• Ah Bus - Here With Me (HIGH FLY)
• Guffey - Creepy (GHOST)
• Fip Placard - Song for Farah (WINKY)
• Junket - That's What You Always Say (HIGH FLY)
• Lil' Johnny H - Little Red Rooster (SWING)
• Bugskull - Welcome Jimmy (PAWNSHOP)
• Girlhole - Real Song (WINKY)
• Goosewind - Fat Albert's Marshland (CAPGUN)
• Al Larsen - Bottling (PAWNSHOP)
• Oar - Dust About 1:45 (PAWNSHOP)
• Showboat - That Damn Thing (PAWNSHOP)
• Rock And Roll Gromets - The Day The Earth Burned (PAWNSHOP)
• Smog - Your Dress (SWING)
• Mincemeat - Playing With Fire Music (SWING)
• OAR - Ants (SWING)
• Mutiplication Rock - Zero (HIGH FLY)
• Multiplication Rock - oo (Infinity) (HIGH FLY)
• Will Simmons - Poked In The 3rd Eye (HIGH FLY)

Also:

• While I'm here going long: online information describes the Shrimper SHR98 version of Abridged Perversion as being from 1993, like the Brinkman version is.
• BUT
  • The Abridged Perversion SHR98 CD I have here has an SID code printed on it: IFPI 8148
  • SID codes were implemented in 1994
    • there is some discourse about this on forums, don't get into it
    • BUT
    • consensus is that any disc with a SID code must be a 1994 release at earliest
  • Disque Americ pressed several Shrimper CDs for 1994~1995 release, including SHR55 The Wandering Jew and SHR56 1951, which do not have IFPI codes
  • Other Shrimper CDs produced for ~1995 like SHR67cd The Original Losing Losers and SHR68 Sweden were pressed elsewhere and DO have IFPI codes
  • What I can assume from this is that the SHR98 Abridged Perversion CD was produced at some point after SHR55
    •  Does this matter? Does it mean anything?
      • Not even a little.  

Finally, here's what information I have about the first track on this comp:

• "Colonial Awards of 1984" is described in the booklet (BRCD018 and SHR98) as coming from "Shrimper" tape 1989
• There was a PSST tape called "Shrimper" from 1990, reissued in 2020 and discussed by Dennis on the Shrimper blog here
• There's a spoken comedy segment at the end of the PSST tape reissue, which I have on hand, but I don't have the original PSST tape, so if the reissue's changed anything I don't have any way of knowing.
• At the end of the A-side of the PSST reissue, there's a spoken bit (Dennis?) about the bands on the tape, and a note about "Colonial Awards of 1983"
  • "Okay, that was---those were songs by artists you can get through the PSST catalog, that's from the uh, fall----no, no no. Summer catalog of 1990. And on side 2 we're gonna have bands that will be on the fall catalog of 1990, and also a tape that's really cheesy called "The Colonial Awards" which is 1983, and has never been released before for some strange reason, so you'll be hearing that too. ...Maybe my kitty. (squeaky cat meow noises)"
• "Colonial Awards of 1983" on the PSST reissue is a recording at the end of the B-side, about 1 minute and 20 seconds long:
  • Interviewer: "Excuse me, hey anyways----okay we got uh, we got Monkey Miller with us. Um, okay, Monkey, Monkey-- come up here Mr. Monkey. That was just delightful humor [inaudible], okay we, ---Mr. Monkey, uh, why have you been away so long? We started to wonder..."
  • (sounds like Allen Callaci) "Well y'know, somebody locked me in the shack, and now I'm just now getting out."
  • Interviewer: "Oh, is... Who was this person? Adoby..."
  • "I dunno I think it was Adoby..."
  • Interviewer: "Ahh, my suspicions were right, right from the start, y'know."
  • "Yeah y'know I went, tried to get a cup of tea, tried to get out, I couldn't get out."
  • Interviewer: "Yeah I think this was caused by the high, um, y'know you were taking a lot of their fans away, y'know, because you're really good, y'know, and uh. You got talent, unlike uh [inaudible]'"  
• On both the BRCD018 Brinkman release of the CD and the SHR98 Shrimper release of the CD, track 1 "Colonial Awards of 1984" is about 25 seconds long:
  • Voice 1: "Get get away monkey! Get away monkey! (background "yeah get away!") Okay uh. We got uh, we got the bass guitarist with us too, his name's Jim Sin, (background yelling) and uh, what do you, what, what do you feel about your Best New Group Award you just received here at Colonial Awards 1984?
  • Voice 2: "It's well deserved, y'know---(more background yelling, voice 2 is chuckling)---this monkey over here's tryin' to rape me---" 
• "Colonial Awards of 1983" on the PSST reissue and "Colonial Awards of 1984" on the Abridged Perversion CD are two different recordings. 
• Dennis's post at the Shrimper blog about the PSST reissue suggests there was just the one "Shrimper" comp on PSST.
• The available PSST Summer 1990 catalog (transcribed fully on the reissue page) only mentions one "Shrimper" tape, but to be fair, the Side A recording from the reissue does suggest there was also a Fall catalog. That doesn't help explain another tape from "1989" being the listed source for "Colonial Awards of 1984". 
• I bought the Brinkman version of the CD for scans, and while it shows up in Exact Audio copy as 36 tracks instead of 34, I can confirm it's just the same Lou Barlow track spread across 3 track-read areas in the CD. No secret included recording of "Colonial Awards of 1983" or anything. 
• CONCLUSIONS:
  • The from "Shrimper" tape 1989 note may be misremembered
  • The fact that the tape audio of Dennis(?) on Side A says "1993" out loud, the tape audio B-side doesn't mention a year, and the CD audio of the skit says "1994" out loud is interesting, because that doesn't rule out the two skit-type audio recordings being from a single source that does say "1994", with one leading more or less into the other.
  • Allen Callaci has speculated to me that some Refrigerator inconsistencies (like Long 33 & 1/3 Play claiming to have a track called "Slide") are just him and Dennis messing around
    • Presumably this is to do psychological warfare on people like me, and people like me know that we deserve it.
      • Craving some fully verifiable logos at the center of anything is inherently ridiculous behavior, all the more in an environment of chaos like this.
        • If this compilation suggests such a thing as an abridged perversion, then the inverse must exist. And wanting to organize and catalog and fully-know anything in a nebulous and ambiguous world; trying to do it; to communicate it; this is unabridged perversion. 

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