THE DARK FANTASTIC The Dark Fantastic 1999

 

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by Charles Spano

The Dark Fantastic carves moody, haunted songs out of the soundscape of psychedelic desert rock. The music produces a space that is at once a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of everyday middle Americans and a plunge into a world of emotional nomads: Lovers, wanderers, and killers that drift in and out of places and lives.

Mark Pickerel began the Dark Fantastic as his solo project while drumming in post-grunge Truly, a band that helped to define the Northwestern sound with their mind-bending full-length on Capitol Records, Fast Stories From Kid Coma. In 1997, after Truly's last record, Feeling You Up, Pickerel enlisted guitarist Jesse Roberts and bassist Mike Elkins to make the Dark Fantastic a full-blown band. Mark Pickerel's songwriting draws from his vast experience playing with the best musicians in the Pacific Northwest, including Kurt Cobain (check out Pickerel on the Nirvana box set Ain't It a Shame). The Dark Fantastic's 1999 self-titled debut draws on influences like Pink Floyd and Echo and the Bunnymen for a dark, somber pop sound. At the same time, it references Pickerel's early days with the Screaming Trees on the band's most brilliant forays into psychedelia, Even If and Especially When and Buzz Factory, as well as his more sobering work on old friend Mark Lanegan's solo albums. In 2000, Pickerel cut a record with Jim Carroll and joined Neko Case and Her Boyfriends. The touch of Neko Case's country can be heard on the Dark Fantastic's 2001 follow-up Goodbye Crooked Scar, where Mark Pickerel's Brian Wilson harmonies whisper through a far east-meets-west supernatural trip. 

 

Tracklist

1		I'm No Good	4:45
2		Protected By Their Prayers	3:19
3		In Love With You	4:41
4		Four Stories High	5:01
5		Shadow's Animal	5:19
6		The Girl With The Cross In Her Car	4:50
7		The Whisper Erotic	3:56
8		Wind Forever	4:07
9		As You Were Leaving	3:11
10		Valentine	4:54
11		Waiting In The Foyer	4:00
12		Shadow's Theme	2:01

UNSEALED: A TRIBUTE TO THE GO-GO'S Various Artists 1999

 

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1	–Fig Dish	Head Over Heels
2	–The Pinehurst Kids*	How Much More?
3	–Sunset Valley	Automatic
4	–Chainsaw Kittens	We Got The Beat
5	–Season To Risk	This Town
6	–Truly	Our Lips Are Sealed
7	–The Frogs	Vacation
8	–Bo Bud Greene	This Old Feeling
9	–The Blank Theory	Get Up & Go
10	–Monkey Paw	Lust To Love
11	–Sugarsmack	Turn To You
12	–Allon Beausoleil	Medley: We Got The Beat / Vacation / Our Lips Are Sealed

 

REVOLUTION COME AND GONE Various Artists 1992

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1	–Tad	Jinx	3:03
2	–Six Finger Satellite	Weapon	3:26
3	–Rein Sanction	Creel	2:19
4	–Beat Happening	Revolution Come And Gone	4:16
5	–The Walkabouts	Maggie's Farm	4:48
6	–Truly	Heart And Lungs	4:21
7	–Mudhoney	The Money Will Roll Right In	2:30
8	–Supersuckers	Caliente	1:55
9	–Reverend Horton Heat	Marijuana	4:47
10	–The Dwarves*	Fuck Em All	1:37
11	–Bullet Lavolta	Rails	4:02
12	–Green Magnet School	Throb	5:46
13	–Hole (2)	Dicknail	3:38
14	–Steven Jesse Bernstein	No No Man Pt. 2	2:43
15	–Seaweed	Baggage	3:06
16	–The Monkeywrench	Call My Body Home	2:37
17	–Afghan Whigs*	Miles Iz Ded	4:42
18	–Love Battery	Foot	3:48
19	–Codeine	Cracked In Two	2:52
20	–Mark Lanegan	Woe	2:04
21	–Earth (2)	A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Pt. 1	7:18

TRULY Twilight Curtains 2000

by request

Although released in 2000, all of the songs were originally from the 1990's.

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Track notes:
1. Single version 2000, original version from "Feeling You Up" Cargo/Headhunter 1997
2. Alternate version. Recorded 1995
3. "Fast Stories from Kid Coma" outtake. Recorded in 1994
4. LP Version, remastered. Recorded in 1997
5. From Sub Pop "Leslie's Coughing Up Blood" European CD-5 1993
6. From "Unsealed" a tribute to the Go Go's on 4 Alarm Records 1999
7. Unreleased Beach Boys cover recorded in 1996
8. Robert Roth 4-track cassette demo. 1991
9. Unreleased band demo. Recorded 1996
10. Mellotron-Optigan soundtrack, 4 track cassette. 1996

 

Tracklist  

1	Twilight Curtains	4:41
2	Leatherette Tears II	3:31
3	Aliens On Alcohol	4:51
4	Wait 'Til The Night	4:51
5	I Hit Ignition	5:32
6	Our Lips Are Sealed	2:44
7	Girl Don't Tell Me You'll Write	2:29
8	Queen Of The Girls	3:54
9	20th Century Voluntary Slaves	5:13
10	Mellotronica Symphonica	3:10

 

TRULY Blue Flame Ford 1995

by request

Thanks to Justin

 

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 Tracklist 

A1	Blue Flame Ford	6:18
A2	Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)	3:34
B1	Aliens On Alcohol	4:52
B2	Hit Ignition	5:32

 

 

 

TRULY Feeling You Up 1997

Thanks to ArtLover

 

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Tracklist 

 

1.1	(Intro)
1.2	Public Access Girls
2	Twilight Curtains
3	Wait 'Til The Night
4	Air Raid
5	It's On Your Face
6	EM7
7	Come Hither
8	Leatherette Tears
9	The Possessions
10	Repulsion
11	Untitled

TRULY Fast Stories...from Kid Coma 1995

by request

 

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biography

by John Bush

Truly was founded in 1990 by a trio of former Seattle grunge players -- Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel, and vocalist/guitarist Robert Roth (from the Storybook Krooks). The group played their first show supporting the Jesus Lizard at a Seattle date in October 1990, and recorded the EP Heart and Lungs for Sub Pop in 1991. The label has also issued two albums by Truly.

 

Tracklist 

	(Intro)	0:37
	Blue Flame Ford	5:26
	Four Girls	4:28
	If You Don't Let It Die	3:50
	Hot Summer 1991	5:54
	Blue Lights	4:12
	Leslie's Coughing Up Blood	3:41
	Hurricane Dance	8:10
	Angelhead	4:47
	Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)	3:34
	Aliens On Alcohol	4:51
	Virtually	4:48
	So Strange	4:28
	Strangling	5:32
	Chlorine	11:26