Miscellaneous

The following are various side projects by members of Purple Fish:

Public Chicken

In an effort to come up with a 1) “less gay name than Purple Fish” and 2) have a name that would be taken seriously, as opposed to The Butthole Journalists, the boys of Purple Fish spent many hours and beers vetting different options. The net result of the process was perhaps the lamest name ever – Public Chicken.

Public Chicken neither recorded nor performed as the members went their separate ways after realizing just how pathetic the renaming effort had been.

The Music Isn’t Fun project

Following the dissolution of Purple Fish in 1989 Darin and Bruce embarked upon a new and unnamed recording adventure. Eventually a title for the collection of new songs was settled upon – Music Isn’t Fun – but no name for the group itself was ever decided.

  • Darin Brock – Keyboards, Guitars, Bass Guitar, Vocals and Noises
  • Bruce Cummings – Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Keyboards and Noises

Furball Sessions (cassette)

  1. Ambiguity Song (Demo)
  2. I Am Not (Demo)
  3. I Am Not (Dancin’ Mix)
  4. Music Isn’t Fun (Demo)
  5. Smoking Tschaikovsky (Demo)
  6. Drum Pattern 1
  7. Drum Pattern 2
  8. Music Isn’t Fun (Instrumental)
  9. Ambiguity Song (Version 2)
  10. Sweeping Up (Instrumental)

Working Versions (cassette)

  1. Everything Is Me
  2. I Am Not
  3. I Could Almost Love You
  4. Chinese Drum Pattern
  5. Another Drum Pattern
  6. Serious Now Drums
  7. Percussion Bru Ha Ha
  8. Ooo Baby
  9. Serious Now (Practice Vocals & Keys)
  10. Serious Now (Guitar – No Vox)
  11. REM Goes Gothic
  12. Ever Changing Drum Pattern
  13. Electric Tom Thing Drum Pattern
  14. Another Pattern Again (I Think)

Untitled (cassette)

  1. Grunt Bass
  2. Wart Hog Drums
  3. By The End Of This World
  4. Mating Game (Instrumental)
  5. Serious Now (No Keys)
  6. Could Almost Be Love (No Keys)
  7. Everything Is Me (Instrumental)
  8. Something Quite Good (Instrumental)
  9. Could Almost Be Love
  10. Happy Birthday (Erin)
  11. By The End Of This World
  12. Channel Of Babble
  13. Way Cool Bass
  14. Way Cool Bass – Part 2

Final Versions (cassette)

  1. Eat It Tracey
  2. There You Have It, There You Go
  3. Smoking Tschaikovsky
  4. Hip Hop Dancing Song
  5. Rob’s Thank You
  6. Serious Now
  7. By The End Of This World
  8. Mating Game (Instrumental)
  9. Serious Now (Instrumental)
  10. Rob’s Thank You Credit
  11. Disco Smiths
  12. Surfin’ Zulu
  13. Surfin’ Nazi
  14. Surfin’ Norse

The BBC3

The live performing name under which Darin, Rob and Bruce reunited in the early 1990s. Under this moniker the trio performed at such high profile events as Dentonstock and some parties in Waco. This became the genesis for the reformation of Purple Fish and the subsequent recordings of Wash & Eat, Viva Mopeding and Trashy & Sassy, among others.

The BBC3 name was also used on an EP of electronic/dance experiments recorded by Rob and Bruce.

The BBC3 EP

  1. Blue Baby
  2. Oh, Man
  3. Tinhead I
  4. Tinhead II

Dante’s Wet Dream and Sing Monkey Sing

Pocketful of ‘Em

  1. Bluebaby
  2. Oh! Man
  3. Mayhem
  4. Mustardseed Magic
  5. Musica Electronique
  6. Madness
  7. Double
  8. Suomi
  9. Bad Luck I
  10. Thanks For The Warning
  11. Bad Luck II
  12. Lunchtime

Where Are My Shoes?

  1. Tinhead I (Birth)
  2. Tinhead II (Celebration)
  3. Tinhead III (Epiphany)
  4. Roadrunner/White Trash
  5. Darin’s Graduation
  6. Pulse – Power Generator
  7. Save Yourself
  8. My Island Home
  9. Tanzen (Demo)
  10. No Shame
  11. It’s Busy
  12. Cheer
  13. Short Surfin’
  14. Resigned
  15. 2BC (The Value of Involvement)
  16. Goodbye To Rock and Roll
  17. Eine Groß Anschaffung
  18. I Think I’m Becoming A Woman (1992 Version)
  19. How Long?

Miscellaneous Tracks

  1. Spleen
  2. Hail (Instrumental Version)
  3. Nicht So Schnell
  4. Bluebaby (Demo)
  5. Bluebaby (Party Mix)
  6. Earwig
  7. Kaffee
  8. Pontiac
  9. Saturday Morning Dance Party (Live Mix)
  10. Western Electro Epic (Live Mix)

The Dobro Love Alliance

The precursor to Spoo. Darin and Bruce reunited briefly in Gonzales, Texas to record a batch of material including:

  1. Five Miles From Everywhere
  2. Free Beer
  3. What’s In It For Me?
  4. The Dobro Love Alliance Theme
  5. The Coming of the Great Bassett
  6. Child of The Moon (Rolling Stones cover)

Some decent songs, but downright dreadful sounding recordings.

Spoo

Reuniting once again Darin and Bruce cranked out another batch of poorly-recorded, but decent tracks somewhere in Waco.

Filler Material

  1. Hindsight
  2. The Pimp’s Revenge
  3. Free Beer (Unplugged)
  4. It Came From The 70s II
  5. Hey America (Unplugged)
  6. Transitional Man
  7. 1,000,000 Things
  8. Iron Love
  9. Mechanical Dog

Cinder

Musik Musique Music I

  1. Sticky Seat
  2. Dronemaster
  3. Emerald
  4. Elastic Stomp
  5. Second Hand Gas
  6. Disko Master Mix II
  7. Drone No. 1000
  8. Super Happy Pop Song
  9. A Fondness For Beetles (Part I)
  10. Up Yours
  11. It’s Your Choice
  12. Stations Of The Crass (Part III)
  13. Buck Stomp
  14. Exactly Boo!
  15. Listen To The Cheese

Cinder

  1. Song For You
  2. My Disaster
  3. Ruptured
  4. It’s That Time
  5. Dos Gatos
  6. What A Place?
  7. New Life
  8. Closet Groove
  9. Death Of The European
  10. Hurtin’ The Barney
  11. Dark Groove
  12. Hey There Goodbye
  13. Guitar Interlude
  14. The Driving Song

Debbie Tooth Overdrive

DTO:

  • Seymour Poone – Vocals & Guitar
  • Ceasarian Sexton – Lead Guitar & Vocals
  • Xylem Hemp – Bass, Vocals
  • Lenny “Big Man” Hoffman – Keyboards
  • Barney Fleshtone – Drums, Vocals

Pantyboy Slapfest

  1. She Don’t Love You Anymore
  2. I’ll Drive You To Omaha
  3. Raising The Dead
  4. DTO Theme
  5. Panty Boy
  6. Tall Dirty Jesus
  7. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
  8. Beat On The Brat
  9. Slashing Tires, Smoking Hash
  10. Patty Duke’s Head
  11. Werewolf In My Pocket
  12. You’re So Ugly (Bonus – CD Only)
  13. Pube Clinch ’91 (Bonus – CD Only)
  14. Raising The Dead (Demo) (Bonus – CD Only)

© 1992 TontoDisco Records

Big Tweed

Big Tweed:

  • Peter Gently-Eaton – Vocals, Keyboards and Borrowed Headphones
  • Lance Cherry – Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals and Extension Cords
  • Will B. Greasy – Guitar, Some Bass, Vocals and Finger Bowls

Nude Photos Of Your Mom

  1. John Rides A Cockhorse
  2. I Feel Queer
  3. Thunderbird
  4. Iron Love
  5. Knives R Sharper Than Fingers
  6. Crack Diet
  7. Hard Plastic Monkey Doll
  8. Fisting In The 90s
  9. The Feeling / 9-Volts
  10. The Show
  11. Zombie Love
  12. Nothin’ Says Loving Like Poultry
  13. Circus O’ Death
  14. I Love My Mom

© 1999 TontoDisco Records

The Entry Sisters

The Entry Sisters:

  • Rosemary – Vocals, Supercar pistons
  • Vivian – Guitar, Holy motor oil
  • Edith – Bass, sacred Playboy air freshener

Meat The Sisters

  1. Drinking Song
  2. Relationship Song
  3. Couch Song
  4. Sudsy Senorita
  5. Psychowoman
  6. Donnie The Gord
  7. Tool
  8. Jesus To Go
  9. Fish Music
  10. When Chairs Were Simple
  11. The Bust Song
  12. Red Captains (Bonus – CD Only)
  13. Never Rains In Space (Bonus – CD Only)

© 1993 TontoDisco Records

Jesus Chrysler Supercar

  1. She Steps On Thunder
  2. I’ll Vote For That
  3. It’s Over (*-U-C-K-Y-O-U)
  4. Ass Like A Man
  5. Cats Are Good
  6. Bitch And Dude (I Stopped The Rock Mix)
  7. Stains: Cool, Blue And Righteous
  8. 5 Two’s
  9. Bait
  10. Mighty Earl
  11. Funk Out Zit Boy
  12. Driving To Utopia

© 1999 TontoDisco Records

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