THE HORRIBLE ODDS wrote these songs alternately between my front porch in St Elmo (Chattanooga) and a dingy bedroom in North Chattanooga where it was so cold that you could see your breath inside the house. Then, they somehow made it to New Orleans to record these songs, even though none of them had a car and half the band didn't even know how to drive. Then, they played
maybe five shows and went their separate ways...or to be fair, their drummer Iggy, went back to California and the rest of them continued playing in their band, THE JACK PALANCE BAND. Somehow, these eleven songs perservered throughout the last nine years and not have lost one bit of their stamina or charisma. This has been the soundtrack to Fall for me for the past nine years running. I dare you to listen to "October" and not have it running through your head for the rest of the day. All of these songs are hopeful, triumphant and perfect.
Ten of these songs later appeared on an LP that came out on Onion Flavored Records that is still available
right here. Eric, Mike and Buddha are still playing together in HIDDEN SPOTS. HORRIBLE ODDS drummer, Iggy Scam was last seen in a squat in Daly City, trying to invent a tree that sprouts tall cans of Schlitz.
Updated 2013
Thanks to Anandi for (unknowingly) loaning this one out for download. Someone stole my copy in 2003. I know who you are and I am still mad at you.
10 comments:
who originally wrote "battle of the hopeless crushes"? i had only heard the lp version of this before and never heard that song, but i had heard it by way of the breakups and japanther.
Whoa...someone is doing their homework. I didn't know Japanther had covered it. I'm pretty sure it was originally by the Breakups and was written by Scott and Iggy.
cool, thanks! the japanther cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdDOjihMMU) was just on some new recess sampler, "i pee in pools" which has a buncha cool songs. i heard the horrible odds version and thought i was going crazy cause i instantly recognized it but didn't know why, ha.
It wasn't me!
I know! It was a west coaster.
Where can I hear the Horrible Odds version of Crushes??
ps. Great blog!
download this tape. thanks!
fuck yea!
Hey Greg, reupload this!!!!!!!!!!
done.
Man, i did this one a long time ago. The sequencing and data is all screwy, but it works.
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