INDECISION/PIRANHA BROTHERS - The Ultimate Cash In cassette
Side 1: Indecision- Repent or Die / Swallow This! / If I Had a Belt I'd Teach You Respect / Now You Must Die / I Live to Be Offended / Flush / Security? / Treadmill / Tweedle Dumbest / Temper Tantrum / Lotshark (Ted's Hair Reweave) / Ken & Barbie / Just Plain Folks / Cindy / Whose Hat Is This? / Step Into the Confessional, Johnny / It's a Tabloid World / Cruel and Unusual Punishment / Smells Like Dead Cobain / Tanglewood Nature Center
Side 2: Piranha Brothers- It's a Tabloid World / Blood, Shit and Lanolin / Cindy / 1000 mph Puke Machine / Bumperstickers / This Doesn't Make Sense / Jock Dance / No Horseplay / No Slogans / Security? / You Suck Moose Wang / I Live to Be Offended / Repent or Die / This Isn't Funny / Whose Hat Is This? / Welcome to Paradise / Free Bird / Metal Health / Stealing Peoples Mail / Tiny Town
Indecision was:
Jeff Guinness
Johnny VD
Martysaurus Rex
Clint Beige
Rob Souls
Scotty Cognito
Piranha Brothers were:
Jeff Guinness
Johnny VD
Scotty Cognito
Clint Beige
NOTES: This tape was compiled and released posthumously. It was originally started for personal use, which expanded into the idea of a "joke" release to be sent for review (I forget the exact details - something to do with people paying more attention to us after we'd broken up), which expanded into an actual release. The A-side featured 20 Indecision songs from Repent or Die, 8 Ball Not Included, and remixed tracks from The Best of What We Know. The B-side featured 20 Piranha Brothers songs recorded for various projects including Lick Our Cracks: A Tribute to Abalienation and a full-length demo which was never completed. I have no idea how many of these were made. The master is currently missing from the archives, although I have a stack of unused inserts.
Notes on side 2 recording: Most of this was recorded on a 4-track recorder in my living room in August 1995. We spent about a week recording 16 songs. We spent the nights tracking and I spent the days mixing and picking up the empties. Sean's girlfriend dumped him right before we started, but we pressed on and turned in some of our best recorded performances (and, to be fair, a few rather mediocre ones). A couple weeks later, we tore through four more in our rehearsal space for a couple of unrelated projects. A third session took place in September in Sean's living room to redo a couple of songs from the first session and to round out the selection with a couple of newer songs that hadn't been ready earlier. However, the performance was lackluster and the sound was utterly awful. This unfinished tape led to a major band argument that was one of the causes of the subsequent break-up (although my broken finger didn't help matters any).