Nothing Painted Blue - After The Housewarming (1994) [Anyway Records, Anyway 018, 7"]
From the sleeve:
Recorded Feb/Mar 1994 in San Dimas by Bob Durkee.
This is a fun little single. A-Side "After The Housewarming" has a brisk tempo, hard guitars, Franklin yelling, and Peter on bass.
The B-side "Love to the Third Power" is a Great Plains cover, but with a title like that, you could be forgiven for thinking it must be a Franklin original. Nothing Painted Blue is no stranger to mathematics ("Can't f(x)" anyone?) but this one precedes them. Peter's on backing vocals, and when the "ba-buh-ba-baa!"'s go into Kyle & Peter both on hand claps... well, if this doesn't put a smile on your face, see a professional.
The original recording of "Love to the Third Power" by Great Plains actually sounds more like the typical Shrimper fare than the Nothing Painted Blue cover does. Makes me want to hear Spgt or Refrigerator covering it, which adds an entry to a very, very, very, very long list.
You can hear both "After The Housewarming" and "Love to the Third Power" on the 1997 Nothing Painted Blue compilation Emotional Discipline. Notes from that compilation, for these two tracks:
rec. February-March 1994 in San Dimas by Bob Durkee
After The Housewarming
PETER: Of everything I've played on,
this might be my favorite record-
ing (although I don't know if the
Helmet intro/outro was a good
idea....)
FRANKLIN: Helmet?
KYLE: The opening 4-note sequence
is 'inspired' by Black Flag's "The
Crazy Girl." We've had worse
ideas--like the guitar intro to "Let's
Kiss."
FRANKLIN: Glad to have this on CD--an
excellent Bob Durkee 8-track
recording to which the 7" didn't
do justice. I think this is a fairly
sad song (and another true story,
though Biff Bang Pow! are only
in there for the rhyme), here
buried under rock. Dig it out!Love to the Third Power
FRANKLIN: When Columbus, OH's Anyway
Records approached us for a sin-
gle, a dip into that city's rich rock
history seemed appropriate.
(We've played Scrawl's "Sad" as
well.) Great Plains had that com-
bination of sloppiness and bad
luck with which we identify, plus
a lyric economy to which I can
only aspire. Ron "Sleepwalker"
House says that most of the
words are wrong, but he doesn't
mind. I've since discovered that
Yo La Tengo has played this one
live too, but we beat them to re-
cording it, which can't be said of
Velocity Girl and Echo and the
Bunnymen's "Seven Seas."
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