1995, Johanns Face Records.
Tracklist:
01 - Yellow Fever
02 - 1st Class Chump
03 - Kruses
04 - Valentine
05 - Elephant Shoes
06 - Bruised
07 - Airborne
08 - Orion
09 - Crashhappy
10 - Liquid Courage
get it here.
They brought the weird into the Chicagoland punk. And I think they brought the beers, too. Or maybe Dave Eaves was smuggling them in that fannypack of his. Love songs about drinking, paintings (and paranoias) about aliens, and tight songwriting. I swear though, I think theres something in the water over in Des Plaines... I think it was at one of their shows where I first spotted the modest Eorl Scholl, who was probably taking care of setting up/taking apart the drums. Hes still around. The rest of the guys I don't know about. Had a strange encounter with Tom Anderson (vocals) a few years back, and the Apocalypse Hoboken vs. Oblivion show in December of last year is probably the only time i've seen any of the other guys since the beginning of this decade...
In a clever way to whore this out (I never said I wouldn't sellout if the price was right... we're all whores anyways, right?) and give some search engine fodder i'll go ahead and make note that the boys choir on Kruses had a lil youngin who went on to be every fifteen year old girls heartthrob cream dream, Matt Skiba. At this point in time ('95) Alkaline Trio wasn't even a cumstain on the map yet, they came around a year later and were actually GOOD for about 10 months... prettysure that he wasn't old enough to legally drink yet, but then again Tom probably wasn't either. This was a while before Dave Eaves put a halt to underage drinking at Fireside.. Oh, and on a better note, the mainstays of Apocalypse Hoboken are also part of that choir. (Todd, Andy, Scott.) I'll probably be adding more of their stuff in the future as it has all gone so hopelessly out of print... I mean look at the image supplied - that was the ONLY one on the whole wide internet...
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