Imperial Drag - Demo tracks
This isn't a discotheque darlingThis is the theatre of the stars!
01 - She Cries All Night
02 - Smellin Like A Rose
03 - Mother Nature
04 - Boy Or A Girl
05 - Breakfast by Tiger
06 - Turpentine And Honey
07 - Gypsy Sister
08 - There You Go Again
09 - Sweet Sweet Love
10 - Could've Been You
11 - Scaredy Cats And Egomaniacs
12 - I Won't Pay To Buy It
13 - Countless Poets
14 - Look back Over My Shoulder
15 - Hey Honey Please
16 - Please Leave Me Home For Xmas
17 - Lovin From The Oven
18 - Do You Spy
19 - Strange
20 - I Don't Feel A Thing
21 - Private Hell
22 - Morning Star
23 - What makes You Think
24 - Slowdown
25 - Not Enough
26 - Why Can't I Be Someone Else
27 - Playboy After Dark
28 - Crosseyed
29 - Down With The Man
30 - The Man In The Moon
31 - Zodiac Sign
32 - The Salvation Army Band
33 - Stare Into The Sun
34 - Illuminate
35 - Working Class High
36 - Overnight Sensation
Not Lame exclusives:
01 - A Bruise Is Still A Bruise
02 - Dandylion
03 - Half Off Sale
04 - Spyder
05 - Suzy Suicide
demos_1_.zip = 01 to 09
demos_2_.zip = 10 to 18
demos_3_.zip = 19 to 29
demos_4_.zip = 30 to 36
demos_5_.zip = the 5 Not Lame exclusives
Download 1 which gives you the folder, artwork and first 9 songs. The subsequent zips have the rest of the songs to drop into the folder.
These first appeared as Weed files. I was given a set of them ripped from the Weeds via the quick and dirty method of an audio loopback. And while the files are useable they may not be the full fidelity of the official files. We'll probably never know. As I'm on a bit of an Imperial Drag bender at the moment I went to buy the Weed license only to find the service is kaput.
So here I present a cleaned up and tagged set of the rips I have. I removed the DC offset, Normalised to peak level and top and tailed the silences. All at 320k which means the whole collections is about 360Meg unzipped. I didn't re-encode downward in case I buggered the sound up, and the resulting files are still very good.
See the following pages for info -
http://www.notlame.com/weed3.htm
http://www.notlame.com/weed4.htm
http://www.arsdivina.com/ImperialDrag/
The quality of the albums demo recordings is a really high standard that stands up well alongside the album proper. The rest of them make a brilliant unreleased album of the same quality.
And the whole lot adds up to a metric fuckload of good music.
Labels:
Eric Dover,
Jellyfish,
Roger Joseph Manning Jr
14 Comments:
certainly look forward to these...ive got some great live stuff..boston i think..interested?
Jay
The files have been steadily uploading and should be finished soon.
Hell yes I'm interested in the live stuff :-)
Please post them.
here tis...a radio show i believe..
Live in boston 19.09.96
1. imperial intro
2. zodiac sign
3. playboy after dark
4. down with the man
5. cross eyed
6. boy or a girl
7. spyder
http://rapidshare.com/files/103683818/impdragbostonsept96.zip.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/103689448/imperialdraggermany96.zip.html
and to go with the boston heres five tracks live in germany
Thanks for posting these - I could never get them as Weed files because I'm a Mac user. What few I've heard have had me wanting more...so again, THANKS!!!
You're welcome EB. Glad you like them thanks for the comment.
Jay, thanks for the live stuff.
Checking out this page - http://www.imperialdrag.com/concerts - it seems possible that the recordings could be of these 2 concerts -
http://www.imperialdrag.com/concerts/reviews/091996/
http://www.imperialdrag.com/concerts/reviews/111596/
Little more than support slots really. Which explains the brevity of the sets.
Thanks for the Demo trax!
Jay, thanks for the live trax and for steering me in this direction!
Massive thanks for these. I'm a big fan of Jellyfish and all their offshoots. 2 days ago I was cursing the internet for stopping me from hearing these demos, and now I'm very happy!
Eric Dover has a new album out by the way, under the name of Sextus. Get it from notlame.com
Hi Agrajag
Glad these are making you happy.
I already have the Sextus album pre-ordered (autographed version!!) from http://www.dramapantsrecords.com/
Also, just got the new Roger Joseph Manning Jr. one "catnip Dynamite" from http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/ good proce and cheap, fast delivery.
Shame the album isn't all that great :-( He seems to have the sugary sweet knob turned up to 11 too much of the time.
Greetings,
I am a founder of Weed (RIP) and I originally mastered and released these files. Rumor has it there is a quiet release in the works.
...Steve>>>
Well hello Mr. Turnidge :-)
What kind of release? The return of the weed system? A box set of all that Imperial Drag recorded?
I'd hope for the second choice, though "Quiet Release" suggests some kind of Japan only thing ;)
Though having just bought Mr. Manning's new album from Japan I'd be more than happy to do that. Better service from there to the UK than some suppliers give from within the UK. But I digress. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for any news.
Door number two... In process :)
...Steve>>>
Welcome back Mr. T :-)
Any other hints as to what's coming?
Damned if I can find any rumours online. I'd love to see this stuff released on CD, or more stuff released, or a new album, or everything in a boxed set, or whatever.
Credit card poised ready to pounce :-)
Hmmmm...
Anything to do with FujiRock? Though Mr. Manning is playing there the Myspace bulletin about it was released via the Imperial Drag page -
ROGER JOSEPH MANNING JR. PERFORMING THIS YEAR'S FUJIROCK!
It's official. Here's the line up in the Red Marquee tent where we'll be playing this year. Anyone going to this year's show will get an extra-special surprise...
Is the surprise a get together of the band to pimp a shiny new release??? :-)
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