Thought Industry

Now this is one WEIRD fucking band...I got all three CD's for $1.99, which is a pretty decent score, don't you think??

"Songs for Insects"

  1. "Third Eye" (4:28)
  2. "Songs for Insects" (9:23)
  3. "Cornerstone" (3:58)
  4. "Daughter Mobius" (5:10)
  5. "Alexander vs. the Puzzle" (5:49)
  6. "Ballerina" (2:34)
  7. "The Chalice Vermillion" (10:07)
  8. "The Flesh is Weak" (6:45)
  9. "Blistered Text and Bleeding Pens" (7:55)
  10. "Bearing an Hourglass" (7:55)

The opening track is a straightforward bit of regular punk/metal, but that's as normal as things get here. The next song launches into a mishmash of heavy metal, blues, folk rock, polka (!), even some shuffle jig on "Daughter Mobius". (At least, I think that's the right song, my CD-Rom doesn't seem to like this disc very much and refuses to play it...)

"Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh"

  1. "Horsepowered" (3:06)
  2. "Daterape Cookbook" (4:44)
  3. "Gelatin" (4:36)
  4. "Jane Whitfield is Dead" (4:40)
  5. "Boil" (5:47)
  6. "Michigan Jesus" (1:46)
  7. "Smirk the Godblender" (5:46)
  8. "Republicans in Love" (6:14)
  9. "Worms Listen" (5:10)
  10. "Patiently Waiting for Summer" (6:29)
  11. "To Build a Better Bulldozer" (6:43)

Oh my, this one is OUT THERE! Hardly ten seconds go by without an abrupt, jarring shift from speed metal to slow, lounge-act jazz, etc. etc. The lyric sheet reads like some acid-influenced stage play. Weird, weird, weird!!!! (That's probably why they used Salvador Dali art on their first 2 CDs...the artwork certainly reflects the music within!)

"Outer Space is Just a Martini Away"

  1. "Love is America Spelled Backwards" (2:42)
  2. "Jeb and the Haymaker" (3:05)
  3. "Fairy" (4:29)
  4. "The Squid" (3:38)
  5. "Dante Dangling from a Noose" (2:45)
  6. "Jack Frost Junior" (4:25)
  7. "Pinto Award in Literature" (2:10)
  8. "Soot on the Radio" (3:51)
  9. "Watercolour Grey" (4:58)
  10. "Sharron Sours" (5:04)
  11. "D.I.Y. Tranquilizers" (4:11)
  12. "Fruitcake and Cider" (2:35)
  13. "Atomic Stroller Helps None" (1:24)
  14. "Bottomfeeder" (5:47)

No more Dali art, and the music's quite a bit more restrained. As a result, it never excited me that much...hell, the song titles are more interesting than the songs themselves!!

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