French TV

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The Kokonino Stomp 00:00 Tools
The Odessa Steps Sequence 00:00 Tools
The Secret Life of Walter Riddle 00:00 Tools
Mail Order Quarks 00:00 Tools
Tiger Tea 00:00 Tools
Joosan Lost/The Fate 00:00 Tools
Happy Armies Fight in Their Sleep 00:00 Tools
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously 00:00 Tools
Ska Face 00:00 Tools
Friendly Enzymes 00:00 Tools
Seven Rusty Nails 00:00 Tools
One of the Jones Boys 00:00 Tools
Conversational Paradigms 00:00 Tools
My Little Cicada 00:00 Tools
You Fool! You Broke the Yolks! 00:00 Tools
That Thing on the Wall 00:00 Tools
Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears! 00:00 Tools
Everything Works In Mexico 00:00 Tools
...And the Dead Dog Leaped Up and Flew Around the Room 00:00 Tools
Clanghonktweet 00:00 Tools
March of the Cookie Cutters 00:00 Tools
The Artist's House 00:00 Tools
The Souls of the Damned Live in Failed Works 00:00 Tools
The Visit Revisited 00:00 Tools
Um Tut Sut 00:00 Tools
Go Like This 00:00 Tools
Mosquito Massacre 00:00 Tools
Sekala an Niskala 00:00 Tools
Vacilando 00:00 Tools
No Raven Tonight 00:00 Tools
Viable Tissue Matter 00:00 Tools
Theme from ESPN X-treme Cobalt Blue 4x4 Bathroom Tile Installation Games 00:00 Tools
A Tab in the Ocean 00:00 Tools
Pioneers Over C 00:00 Tools
Black Day, White Light 00:00 Tools
Spill 00:00 Tools
Under Heaven There Is Great Disorder (And the Situation Is Excellent) 00:00 Tools
Partly the State 00:00 Tools
The "Pardon Our French" Medley 00:00 Tools
Tears Of A Velvet Clown 00:00 Tools
The Family That Oonts Together, Groonts Together 00:00 Tools
With Grim Determination, Terrell Dons the Bow Tie 00:00 Tools
One Humiliating Incident After Another 00:00 Tools
Earth, I Wait 00:00 Tools
Dreams of Peace 00:00 Tools
The Visit 00:00 Tools
When The Ruff Tuff Creampuffs Take Over 00:00 Tools
No Charge 00:00 Tools
Perseids 00:00 Tools
You Got To Run It Out, Dawson! 00:00 Tools
Hey! Real Executives Jump From The 50th Floor 00:00 Tools
Friends in High Places 00:00 Tools
I'm Whining For That Funky Baby Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Under the Big W 00:00 Tools
Empate' 00:00 Tools
[hidden track] 00:00 Tools
We're Putting On Our Bulldog Faces (and hoping something good happens) 00:00 Tools
Slowly I Turn... Step By Step... Inch By Inch... 00:00 Tools
The Tingler 00:00 Tools
Friendly Pursuit 00:00 Tools
Rocka-Saggy-Baby-Bubba-Shaggy-Baba-Boo 00:00 Tools
Shemp Vs. Classical Economics 00:00 Tools
Gee, I Wish We Had One'a Them Doomsday Machines 00:00 Tools
Metronome Crisis 00:00 Tools
Noble Obelisk 00:00 Tools
Ghost Zone 00:00 Tools
And The Dead Dog Lept Up And Flew Around The Room! 00:00 Tools
Hey! Real Executives Jump From The Fiftieth Floor! 00:00 Tools
Perseids - A) Dispersion B) Spiralling C) Reign Of Ice 00:00 Tools
Under the Big 'W' 00:00 Tools
Urgent Fury 00:00 Tools
Tree Incident 00:00 Tools
Golden Pheasant Of The Infinite Reach 00:00 Tools
Nimrod Dancer 00:00 Tools
Silent Years 00:00 Tools
Vigilant Sentinel 00:00 Tools
Hey! Real Executives Jump from the 50th Floor! 00:00 Tools
Look At The Bears 00:00 Tools
The Artist's House, Hey 00:00 Tools
The Family That Oonts Together, GroontsTogether 00:00 Tools
Slowly I Turn ? Step By Step ? Inch By Inch 00:00 Tools
No charge (a free improvisation) 00:00 Tools
Joosan LostThe Fate 00:00 Tools
UM-TUT-SUT 00:00 Tools
Theme From ESPN X-Tream Cobalt 00:00 Tools
Skaface (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Kokonimo Stomp 00:00 Tools
You've Got To Run It Out, Dawson 00:00 Tools
Empatґ 00:00 Tools
You Fool - You Broke The Yolks 00:00 Tools
Black Day / White Light 00:00 Tools
Hey! Real Executives Jump from 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Hey! Real Executives Jump From The 5oth Floor! 00:00 Tools
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Live) 00:00 Tools
Installation Games 00:00 Tools
Waiting To Submerge 00:00 Tools
04. You Got To Run It Out, Dawson! 00:00 Tools
Under Heaven There Is Great Di 00:00 Tools
Empaté 00:00 Tools
Slowly I Turn ... Step By Step ... Inch By Inch 00:00 Tools
I'm Whining For The Funky Baby Of Mine 00:00 Tools
You Fool! You Broke The Yolks 00:00 Tools
Jazz Improv 00:00 Tools
The Pardon Our French Medley 00:00 Tools
March of the Cookie Cutters (Live) 00:00 Tools
Under Heaven There Is Great Disorder (And... 00:00 Tools
Slowly I Turn … Step By Step … Inch By Inch 00:00 Tools
Joosan Lost,The Fate 00:00 Tools
02 - Conversational Paradigms 00:00 Tools
Conversational Paradigms (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Secret Life of Walter Riddle (Live) 00:00 Tools
Theme From ESPN X-Treme Cobalt Blue 4"x4" Bathroom Tile Installation Games 00:00 Tools
Hartford's Coffin (Live) 00:00 Tools
Paranoiac (Live) 00:00 Tools
Seven Rusty Nails (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mister Class and Quality-Three Friends 00:00 Tools
The Souls Of The Damned Live I 00:00 Tools
Joosan Lost-The Fate 00:00 Tools
The Oddessa steps Sequence 00:00 Tools
Dreamsof Peace 00:00 Tools
You Got to Run It Out Dawson (Live) 00:00 Tools
Theme from ESPN X-treme 00:00 Tools
Humiliating incident... 00:00 Tools
05 - With Grim Determination, Terrell Dons the Bow Tie 00:00 Tools
Scaface 00:00 Tools
Pioneers Over "C" 00:00 Tools
I'm Whining For That Funky Bab 00:00 Tools
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French TV is a Louisville, Kentucky based progressive rock band that has been in existence since 1983. Over the years, members have come and gone, but founder, bassist and main composer Mike Sary continues to drag the band into the next millennium. The history of French TV is complex, filled with lineup changes, missed opportunities, delays, and disillusions. And yet, a growing body of work testifies to one man's sagacity and stubbornness. Blending elements of progressive rock, fusion, cartoon music, and Rock in Opposition (RIO), the music of his group has been described as being "simultaneously hilarious and highly challenging, making it one of the most original American prog rock outfits." The group began its uncertain life back in 1983, when Sary and keyboardist Steve Roberts put a group together to explore twisted forms of rock their previous basement projects would not allow. They recruited Fenner Castner (drums) and Artie Bratton (guitar), and proceeded to record their first album. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies in 1984, French TV was a very imperfect first step, but a step nonetheless. Quickly the plague of departures began, beginning with co-leader Roberts, who left to run his prog rock record shop ZNR Records. From that point on, French TV would live by Sary, who would add to the name of the band a number for each album released ("French TV 3," "French TV 4," etc.), a way to underline its constant state of flux. After a hiatus of four years, he released After a Lengthy Silence. By the end of 1990, a third album, Virtue in Futility, was ready for release, but it only came out four years later when, tired of looking for interested parties, Sary decided to launch his own record label: the self-mockingly titled Pretentious Dinosaur. In French TV's track titles and liner notes, humor plays an important role, as do left-wing politics. Virtue in Futility (FTV3) was the last to feature Castner and Bratton. By the time of Intestinal Fortitude (FTV4; 1995), the band had burned another quasi-stable lineup: Tony Hall (guitar), Bob Douglas (drums), and [bandmemberJohn Robinson (keybaords). The album marked a departure as it included compositions from other band members than Sary, some with lyrics, and a sound slightly less wacky. By the live album Yoo-Hoo!!! (FTV5; 1997), Dean Zigoris had replaced Hall. At this point, the group began to garner some attention in progressive rock circles and started to perform elsewhere in the United States. A few concerts with Volare (including an appearance at ProgDay '97 in Raleigh, North Carolina) led to drummer Brian Donohue sitting in for a few nights and recording material for The Violence of Amateurs (avant-garde maverick Eugene Chadbourne also makes a cameo). This FTV6, released in 1999, remains the group's best achievement, an incredible cartoon roller coaster acclaimed by the specialized press. For the 2001 album The Case Against Art, French TV consisted mostly of Sary, keyboardist Warren Dale (of TRAP), and drummer Chris Vincent, with many past and new friends sitting in. Official Website: http://www.frenchtvonline.com/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.