Ghost of a Rollercoaster (1991) [Shrimper, SHR701]

Ghost of a Rollercoaster (1991) [Shrimper, SHR701, 7"]

A1. Halo - L Wheel
A2. Refrigerator - Map To The Stars
A3. Shoeface - I Hate The Government
A4. Franklin Bruno - Lifetime Seance
A5. Satnam Puppets - Guitar In Room P.7

B1. Wckr Spgt - Fluffy Cat
B2. Guffey - Creepy
B3. Sentridoh - Me And My Arrow
B4. Jim Bishop - 05

Notes on these tracks:

It's Halo! Right up front! For about 40 seconds, then it cuts off abruptly. So, this guitar+drum machine audio (or a close re-recording of it---it's the same general riff) is playing at the start of "Bigwheel" on Halo's 1993 album JAG/eye.velocity, except there it's been slowed down about 4.5%, and hard to hear under the spoken part (pan the whole thing hard to the left). Yes, I sat down and manually worked this out.
"Map to the Stars" has Allen raising his voice, Dennis's guitar squealing
''I Hate The Government'' is Shoeface at maximum volume, so blown-out I can't actually tell if that's Bob or Nathan screaming. It has an additional credit to ''Rick J.'' which I am too stupid to interpret in a helpful way. Fast, loud.
Franklin solo comes in right after the Shoeface barrage, and Franklin's track is given the lion's share of the A-side. "Lifetime Seance" is an acoustic solo version of what Nothing Painted Blue would later record as "Masonic Eye" on their 1994 album Placeholders.
Satnam Puppets pop in for what sounds like an alarm clock left running and some harmonica. Fantastic.
"Fluffy Cat" is one of Spgt's best.
"Creepy" is an answering-machine-tape sotto voce song with pots-and-pans style percussion
''Me And My Arrow'' is a Harry Nilsson cover.
The boys of Jim Bishop are credited here at the end, but instead of harsh noise, there's just a looping cheerful piano/drum bit.

"Map to the Stars", "Fluffy Cat", and "Creepy" were selected for CD comp-of-comps Abridged Perversion.

A fun note on the scans here: take a look at the B-side of the label for this, SHR701. Then click here to see the A-side label for SHR710 Fantasy Band.

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