Far Out
by Tadpoles
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumOriginal Bakery Records CD release from 1996. Out of Print. Very Limited Supply Remaining.
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Drop down and see it fall away
Climb up catch what they say
Drop down and be there fall away
Get up race you to the day
The only way
Get a little closer to the tone
Vibrate for everyone you know
When you stop you've never been away
Get up race you to the day
The only way
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Aren't you tired of coming down
You want to float not be around
Aren't you tired
Aren't you tired
Aren't you tired like really wired
His name appeared in lights that day
Her neon dress began to fray
Don't you know what its like
Don't let it be an oversight
When you're lazy lying on some grass
Following all the dusty paths
You watch the sky slide past your face
When morning comes you've won the race
Then parachute land on the floor
You hit the ground feeling sore
Your knees buckle but you give it more
Step inside your first balloon
Blow it up and make it bloom
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Nazareth
05:34
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Nazareth
you're taking my mind
you're taking my money
you're taking your time
Nazareth
you're baking my mind
you're making me funny
you're making me blind
Nazareth
you're just like a train
thats going insane
thats leaving today
Nazareth
can you spare me a dime
i wanna get high
if i can't i might cry
Nazareth
c'mon make me a deal
i wanna feel real
for that i would kill
Nazareth
i love all your lights
they really shine bright mon
you're right out of sight
Nazareth
i'll take you to bed
a dream in my head
until i am dead
Nazareth
you're taking my mind
you're taking my money
you're taking your time
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Ride the world around the sun with me
Pack all your things
Your ticket to ecstacy
Ride the world around the sun
Checking it out you're gonna have fun
Ride the world around the sun with me
Check it out and see what you can be
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4D
07:07
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I am the confluence of many rivers come before
And i have noted million things or more
I've seen the mighty mississippi run through my hands
I've seen you slip away and seen you come back again
The time to leave was yesterday my love
Now its today and its already too late
Guess that I am stuck here for awhile
You make me feel like thats alright
My violent mind has seen everything come true
My silent eyes have watched all I've thought was done undo
I've washed my hands in the rain from the clouds of my friends
I've seen them slip away and seen them come back again
The time to leave was yesterday my love
Now its today and its already too late
Guess that I am stuck here for awhile
You make me feel like thats alright
Once we packed that bowl we knew we couldn't lose
One ray of moonshine to chase away my blues
I know of places where I can hind my mind
I could've slipped away but I never really had the time
Guess that I am stuck here for awhile
You make me feel like that's alright
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Feel Like A Freak
04:45
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You're fuzzy in the daylight dawn
Believing the will is gone
Just another day is done
And thrown into the sun
When you pick up with the scent
You drop and hit the floor
One more icycle melts
It slips you through the door
The words they say are like open sores
You're drowning in the puss
Just paint them like Picasso would
You know you've got the buzz
Feel like a freak
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Chunky
04:06
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Voices calling on the phone
Can you answer are you home
Make believe that you are free
Can you tell me what you see
The look in her eyes
Made me realize
She's gone again
Tomorrow night in a dream
Dance with color jellybean
Can you tell me what you see
C'mon along and dream with me
Just get inside
And start to realize
She's gone again
Tomorrow night in a dream
Just get inside
And start to realize
The look in her eyes
Will tell you why
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Clea
05:49
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Nothing can replace you near me
I live in my mind so much sometimes I forget
Nothing can replace you near me
Puncture my body lest I forget
The hardest walk I ever took was to you
Now I can never go home again
The hardest walk i ever took was to you
Now I'm afraid to be alone again
I feel your eyes when you don't even see me
You've never seen the blackest part of me
I feel your eyes when you don't even see me
You omni invoke the warmest part of me
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Old Dirty Mushrooms
02:46
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Old dirty mushrooms tend to make you feel
A whole lot better than a box of pills (like Gerald mouse on a spinning wheel)
Pull the bright red wagon
Drop by the fire dragon
Feel your body warning
God your hair is burning
Old dirty mushrooms tend to make you feel
Like a bunch of raisins on a banana peel (like Gerald mouse on a spinning wheel)
Pull the bright red wagon
Drop by the fire dragon
Feel your body warning
God your hair is burning
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about
Far Out (1996) is the second full length album released on CD by Tadpoles. The album was recorded by the core trio of Todd Parker, David Max and Nick Kramer after drummer, Michael Kite Audino and guitarist Andrew Jackson Shapiro left the group. Guest musicians Edward Odowd (The Toilet Boys / Psychic TV) and Steve Savoca (The Werefrogs) perform drums and percussion on the album. Additional lap steel guitar was provided by Jeff Passifiume (Hank McCoy and The Dead Ringers / The Lost Continentals). "Ride The World Around The Sun" is a re-recording of the song, "Sunshine" from the Tadpoles' Superwhip cassette-only album from 1992. "Old Dirty Mushrooms" was included as a bonus track on the CD version of the album and was not included on the cassette version. "Old Dirty Mushrooms" was recorded in 1991 and features just Todd Parker and drummer, Michael Kite Audino, along with sax by Raj Seshu. Far Out is notable in that it received a 4-star review from Rolling Stone Magazine, a rare feat at the time for an independently released CD.
“ “★★★★” Taking the approach of all great psychedelic rockers,Tadpoles & producer, Kramer, treat
the studio like a playground, crafting mini symphonies from layers of weird guitars, six-string fuzz bass and impressionistic vocals. Its a heady mix that deserves to disorient a much wider audience.”
–ROLLING STONE (Jim DeRogatis, May 30, 1996) “ ...like a kinder, gentler Monster Magnet touched up with a bit of classic Doors-like themes”
–MAGNET (Gina Bittner, #24, ‘96) “...a psychedelic trio from Hoboken, NJ, who have released two killer indie guitar albums”
–GUITAR WORLD (May 1997)
“...this Hoboken band takes out the tricks of Sonic Boom,Wayne Kramer, and even something from the Strawberry Alarm Clock to mold a guitar geek’s landscape of mesmerizing chords and pulsing rhythms..” –CARBON 14(Kevin McDonough, #9, ‘96)
“Far Out is an almost flawless psychedelic album on which every song is about as good as the next one...one of the better American CDs of ‘96” –CROHINGA WELL (Belgium-#13 ‘May 1997)
“With the Lilys giving up the Loop drone for early Syd Barrett psycho-pop,Tadpoles may be the American claimants of the space-rock crown.” –FACE MAGAZINE (Seth Berner, Feb. 1997)
“the full on execution makes them more Blue Cheer than Love, and the quieter space rock passages give up a countrified nod in the direction of Up on the Sun era, Meat Puppets and Syd’s Pink Floyd...they get further and further out to an alternate universe where Kramer produces million-selling records and Gibby is president.” –EXCLAIM! (Neil Exall,Toronto, Oct.‘96)
“If Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch bought a vintage theater, enveloped the giant screen in fuzz, cut the lights, and put Tones on Tail, Syd Barrett, the Swans, and the Jesus and Mary Chain on the balcony- then handed out the shrooms-you would be close to experiencing the Tadpoles.” –EYE (Lisa Crosby, #9 ‘97)
“Far Out by Hoboken-based Tadpoles is the latest gem wearing the Shimmy Disc producer’s imprint. Thrashy psych abounds with Spacemen 3 and 13th Floor Elevators influence just winning on points” -MOJO (UK, June 1996)
“Tadpoles specialize in stoned-out psychedelic jams...” –OCULUS ( Frank Tantilla, June 1996)
“remind me of Syd Barrett doing doughnuts in the grocery store parking lot...” –JERSEY BEAT (Greg Matherly,August 1996)“
“Their sound is at times almost erotic, yet intimately fierce and always mesmerizing...a modern day continuation of a Barrett-run Floyd” –BRAIN DAMAGE (Jeff Jensen, Nov. 1996)
“pure old-school guitar psychedelia-loud electric psych...it is hard not to be floored by the sheer wall of fuzz bass and droning, wah-wha-ing guitar that one is confronted with on Far Out” –POP CULTURE PRESS (Matt Murphy, #59 July ‘96)
“guaranteed to swirl in your head long after your buzz wears off...” –UNDERBELLY (Nov.‘96)
Various - Far Out Reviews- Highlights (1996)
"4 STARS" - Tadpoles - Far Out
In these days of alternativerock mania, when groups that have played three gigs sign million-dollar deals, the bands that labor on indie labels come in two varieties: those doing something so perversely unlistenable that no one else will release it and those less interested in careerism than in following their own quirky muses. The Hoboken, N.J., trio Tadpoles fall into the latter category.
There's a timeless quality to the band's second do-it- yourself album: Tunes such as "Feel Like a Freak" and "At Least I'm Not Like Jonathan Carver" are equally influenced by Syd Barrett, the 13th Floor Elevators, My Bloody Valentine and the Flaming Lips. Taking the approach of all great psychedelic rockers, Tadpoles and producer Kramer (Bongwater, Galaxie 500) treat the studio like a playground, crafting minisymphonies from layers of weird guitars, six-string fuzz bass and impressionistic vocals. It's a heady mix that deserves to disorient a much wider audience.
Jim DeRogatis - Rolling Stone (May 30, 1996)
“ “★★★★” Taking the approach of all great psychedelic rockers,Tadpoles & producer, Kramer, treat
the studio like a playground, crafting mini symphonies from layers of weird guitars, six-string fuzz bass and impressionistic vocals. Its a heady mix that deserves to disorient a much wider audience.”
–ROLLING STONE (Jim DeRogatis, May 30, 1996) “ ...like a kinder, gentler Monster Magnet touched up with a bit of classic Doors-like themes”
–MAGNET (Gina Bittner, #24, ‘96) “...a psychedelic trio from Hoboken, NJ, who have released two killer indie guitar albums”
–GUITAR WORLD (May 1997)
“...this Hoboken band takes out the tricks of Sonic Boom,Wayne Kramer, and even something from the Strawberry Alarm Clock to mold a guitar geek’s landscape of mesmerizing chords and pulsing rhythms..” –CARBON 14(Kevin McDonough, #9, ‘96)
“Far Out is an almost flawless psychedelic album on which every song is about as good as the next one...one of the better American CDs of ‘96” –CROHINGA WELL (Belgium-#13 ‘May 1997)
“With the Lilys giving up the Loop drone for early Syd Barrett psycho-pop,Tadpoles may be the American claimants of the space-rock crown.” –FACE MAGAZINE (Seth Berner, Feb. 1997)
“the full on execution makes them more Blue Cheer than Love, and the quieter space rock passages give up a countrified nod in the direction of Up on the Sun era, Meat Puppets and Syd’s Pink Floyd...they get further and further out to an alternate universe where Kramer produces million-selling records and Gibby is president.” –EXCLAIM! (Neil Exall,Toronto, Oct.‘96)
“If Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch bought a vintage theater, enveloped the giant screen in fuzz, cut the lights, and put Tones on Tail, Syd Barrett, the Swans, and the Jesus and Mary Chain on the balcony- then handed out the shrooms-you would be close to experiencing the Tadpoles.” –EYE (Lisa Crosby, #9 ‘97)
“Far Out by Hoboken-based Tadpoles is the latest gem wearing the Shimmy Disc producer’s imprint. Thrashy psych abounds with Spacemen 3 and 13th Floor Elevators influence just winning on points” -MOJO (UK, June 1996)
“Tadpoles specialize in stoned-out psychedelic jams...” –OCULUS ( Frank Tantilla, June 1996)
“remind me of Syd Barrett doing doughnuts in the grocery store parking lot...” –JERSEY BEAT (Greg Matherly,August 1996)“
“Their sound is at times almost erotic, yet intimately fierce and always mesmerizing...a modern day continuation of a Barrett-run Floyd” –BRAIN DAMAGE (Jeff Jensen, Nov. 1996)
“pure old-school guitar psychedelia-loud electric psych...it is hard not to be floored by the sheer wall of fuzz bass and droning, wah-wha-ing guitar that one is confronted with on Far Out” –POP CULTURE PRESS (Matt Murphy, #59 July ‘96)
“guaranteed to swirl in your head long after your buzz wears off...” –UNDERBELLY (Nov.‘96)
Various - Far Out Reviews- Highlights (1996)
"4 STARS" - Tadpoles - Far Out
In these days of alternativerock mania, when groups that have played three gigs sign million-dollar deals, the bands that labor on indie labels come in two varieties: those doing something so perversely unlistenable that no one else will release it and those less interested in careerism than in following their own quirky muses. The Hoboken, N.J., trio Tadpoles fall into the latter category.
There's a timeless quality to the band's second do-it- yourself album: Tunes such as "Feel Like a Freak" and "At Least I'm Not Like Jonathan Carver" are equally influenced by Syd Barrett, the 13th Floor Elevators, My Bloody Valentine and the Flaming Lips. Taking the approach of all great psychedelic rockers, Tadpoles and producer Kramer (Bongwater, Galaxie 500) treat the studio like a playground, crafting minisymphonies from layers of weird guitars, six-string fuzz bass and impressionistic vocals. It's a heady mix that deserves to disorient a much wider audience.
Jim DeRogatis - Rolling Stone (May 30, 1996)
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released March 1, 1996
©1996 Tadpoles/Bakery Records
Far Out was produced and mixed by Mark Kramer (Shimmy Disc) and engineered by Steve Watson at Noise New Jersey Studio in 1994-1995 with additional recording at Waterfront Studio in Hoboken, NJ. Album artwork and design was created by Ann Manca. Mastered by Dave Steele at dbs digital in Hoboken, NJ.
©1996 Tadpoles/Bakery Records
Far Out was produced and mixed by Mark Kramer (Shimmy Disc) and engineered by Steve Watson at Noise New Jersey Studio in 1994-1995 with additional recording at Waterfront Studio in Hoboken, NJ. Album artwork and design was created by Ann Manca. Mastered by Dave Steele at dbs digital in Hoboken, NJ.
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Tadpoles, based in Hoboken, NJ, disbanded in 2000 after releasing 4 critically acclaimed studio albums, 1 live album and 1 E.P. all on their own Bakery Records label (except for their last studio album, Whirlaway, which was released on Australia's Camera Obscura Records.) The group was formed by vocalist/guitarist, Todd Parker and original drummer, Michael Kite Audino in New York City in 1990. ... more
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