Refrigerator - Suck And Run (1996) [Paperplane]

Refrigerator - Suck And Run (1996) [Paperplane, SV-03? 7"]

What Does This 7'' Sound Like?

SIDE 1

1. The Rain On Our Street Tonight
2. Seventeen

SIDE 2

3. Suck And Run
4. A Rain Too Strong To Fall

Here's a cool little 7". The A-side throws you right into a Dennis-vocals track, which is fun. "The Rain On Our Street Tonight" has fuzzy guitar and lively drums (that's Chris Jones, according to the sleeve, and then Joel Connell is on deck for "Seventeen"). "Seventeen" puts Allen on vocals and he stays there for the rest.

The first track on the B side, the title track, has a loop running in the back, and some echo in Allen's vocals throughout, with different phrases overlaid on each other, back and forth. If you came straight here from something like Down With, it really sticks out. It looks like the sleeve credits it as "designed by Aubrey. Props to the AH-CLUB", which explains everything if you know what Aubrey Brengelman and Carol Paine of The Ah Club are into. (I have no idea about the underlying vocal loop, which sounds like someone singing "I want a boyfriend...") Refrigerator wraps this one up with "A Rain Too Strong To Fall", which is nice and moody, but gets a good surge of energy too.

The sheet music on the sleeve is labeled 'LE PETIT NAVIRE' and uses the tracklist in place of lyrics, except on the fourth line, which says "ja, ja, jamais navigue". This puts it in proximity to a French nursery rhyme, but I couldn't say for sure where the sheet music was taken from. I'm almost positive that rhyme is about a bunch of sailors out at sea who, believing they'll starve to death, grab the youngest boy on the boat and decide they're going to eat him. He prays to the Virgin Mary and a thousand little fish jump on the boat instead, so he's fine. There's some handwriting on the sleeve too, in cursive, doing some variations on "Qu'est-ce que".

The sleeve says "jacket design by Hot Nachos". Nacho is a name the boys have for drummer Chris Jones, but beyond that, I couldn't tell you. The sleeve also says these were recorded by Bob Durkee, 6-95, which is a headscratcher if you look around online and see this one listed as a 1994 release. Luigi F puts it at 1996 and I'm inclined to agree.

The master tape for this LP is, last I heard, in the hands of the brothers Callaci. You may see a listing on Discogs, but unless a dub is floating around it's long gone from circulation. Be at peace.

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