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83622426 | Play | The Kokonino Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
83622427 | Play | The Odessa Steps Sequence | 00:00 Tools | |
83622428 | Play | The Secret Life of Walter Riddle | 00:00 Tools | |
83622429 | Play | Mail Order Quarks | 00:00 Tools | |
83622430 | Play | Tiger Tea | 00:00 Tools | |
83622431 | Play | Joosan Lost/The Fate | 00:00 Tools | |
83622432 | Play | Happy Armies Fight in Their Sleep | 00:00 Tools | |
83622433 | Play | Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously | 00:00 Tools | |
83622434 | Play | Ska Face | 00:00 Tools | |
83622435 | Play | Friendly Enzymes | 00:00 Tools | |
83622437 | Play | Seven Rusty Nails | 00:00 Tools | |
83622436 | Play | One of the Jones Boys | 00:00 Tools | |
83622439 | Play | Conversational Paradigms | 00:00 Tools | |
83622438 | Play | My Little Cicada | 00:00 Tools | |
83622440 | Play | You Fool! You Broke the Yolks! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622441 | Play | That Thing on the Wall | 00:00 Tools | |
83622443 | Play | Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears! Look at the Bears! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622445 | Play | Everything Works In Mexico | 00:00 Tools | |
83622444 | Play | ...And the Dead Dog Leaped Up and Flew Around the Room | 00:00 Tools | |
83622442 | Play | Clanghonktweet | 00:00 Tools | |
83622450 | Play | March of the Cookie Cutters | 00:00 Tools | |
83622447 | Play | The Artist's House | 00:00 Tools | |
83622448 | Play | The Souls of the Damned Live in Failed Works | 00:00 Tools | |
83622449 | Play | The Visit Revisited | 00:00 Tools | |
83622446 | Play | Um Tut Sut | 00:00 Tools | |
83622451 | Play | Go Like This | 00:00 Tools | |
83622456 | Play | Mosquito Massacre | 00:00 Tools | |
83622455 | Play | Sekala an Niskala | 00:00 Tools | |
83622453 | Play | Vacilando | 00:00 Tools | |
83622452 | Play | No Raven Tonight | 00:00 Tools | |
83622454 | Play | Viable Tissue Matter | 00:00 Tools | |
83622457 | Play | Theme from ESPN X-treme Cobalt Blue 4x4 Bathroom Tile Installation Games | 00:00 Tools | |
83622460 | Play | A Tab in the Ocean | 00:00 Tools | |
83622458 | Play | Pioneers Over C | 00:00 Tools | |
83622459 | Play | Black Day, White Light | 00:00 Tools | |
83622461 | Play | Spill | 00:00 Tools | |
83622462 | Play | Under Heaven There Is Great Disorder (And the Situation Is Excellent) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622464 | Play | Partly the State | 00:00 Tools | |
83622465 | Play | The "Pardon Our French" Medley | 00:00 Tools | |
83622466 | Play | Tears Of A Velvet Clown | 00:00 Tools | |
83622463 | Play | The Family That Oonts Together, Groonts Together | 00:00 Tools | |
83622475 | Play | With Grim Determination, Terrell Dons the Bow Tie | 00:00 Tools | |
83622468 | Play | One Humiliating Incident After Another | 00:00 Tools | |
83622467 | Play | Earth, I Wait | 00:00 Tools | |
83622469 | Play | Dreams of Peace | 00:00 Tools | |
83622470 | Play | The Visit | 00:00 Tools | |
83622473 | Play | When The Ruff Tuff Creampuffs Take Over | 00:00 Tools | |
83622471 | Play | No Charge | 00:00 Tools | |
83622472 | Play | Perseids | 00:00 Tools | |
83622477 | Play | You Got To Run It Out, Dawson! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622474 | Play | Hey! Real Executives Jump From The 50th Floor | 00:00 Tools | |
83622476 | Play | Friends in High Places | 00:00 Tools | |
83622478 | Play | I'm Whining For That Funky Baby Of Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
83622479 | Play | Under the Big W | 00:00 Tools | |
83622480 | Play | Empate' | 00:00 Tools | |
83622481 | Play | [hidden track] | 00:00 Tools | |
90270502 | Play | We're Putting On Our Bulldog Faces (and hoping something good happens) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622482 | Play | Slowly I Turn... Step By Step... Inch By Inch... | 00:00 Tools | |
83622484 | Play | The Tingler | 00:00 Tools | |
83622485 | Play | Friendly Pursuit | 00:00 Tools | |
83622486 | Play | Rocka-Saggy-Baby-Bubba-Shaggy-Baba-Boo | 00:00 Tools | |
83622488 | Play | Shemp Vs. Classical Economics | 00:00 Tools | |
83622487 | Play | Gee, I Wish We Had One'a Them Doomsday Machines | 00:00 Tools | |
83622489 | Play | Metronome Crisis | 00:00 Tools | |
83622498 | Play | Noble Obelisk | 00:00 Tools | |
83622497 | Play | Ghost Zone | 00:00 Tools | |
83622490 | Play | And The Dead Dog Lept Up And Flew Around The Room! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622491 | Play | Hey! Real Executives Jump From The Fiftieth Floor! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622492 | Play | Perseids - A) Dispersion B) Spiralling C) Reign Of Ice | 00:00 Tools | |
83622493 | Play | Under the Big 'W' | 00:00 Tools | |
83622502 | Play | Urgent Fury | 00:00 Tools | |
83622504 | Play | Tree Incident | 00:00 Tools | |
83622511 | Play | Golden Pheasant Of The Infinite Reach | 00:00 Tools | |
83622508 | Play | Nimrod Dancer | 00:00 Tools | |
83622509 | Play | Silent Years | 00:00 Tools | |
83622510 | Play | Vigilant Sentinel | 00:00 Tools | |
83622494 | Play | Hey! Real Executives Jump from the 50th Floor! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622495 | Play | Look At The Bears | 00:00 Tools | |
83622496 | Play | The Artist's House, Hey | 00:00 Tools | |
83622503 | Play | The Family That Oonts Together, GroontsTogether | 00:00 Tools | |
83622499 | Play | Slowly I Turn ? Step By Step ? Inch By Inch | 00:00 Tools | |
83622500 | Play | No charge (a free improvisation) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622501 | Play | Joosan LostThe Fate | 00:00 Tools | |
83622505 | Play | UM-TUT-SUT | 00:00 Tools | |
83622506 | Play | Theme From ESPN X-Tream Cobalt | 00:00 Tools | |
83622520 | Play | Skaface (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622507 | Play | The Kokonimo Stomp | 00:00 Tools | |
83622514 | Play | You've Got To Run It Out, Dawson | 00:00 Tools | |
83622512 | Play | Empatґ | 00:00 Tools | |
83622513 | Play | You Fool - You Broke The Yolks | 00:00 Tools | |
83622518 | Play | Black Day / White Light | 00:00 Tools | |
83622515 | Play | Hey! Real Executives Jump from | 00:00 Tools | |
83622516 | Play | Untitled | 00:00 Tools | |
83622517 | Play | Hey! Real Executives Jump From The 5oth Floor! | 00:00 Tools | |
88594113 | Play | Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622519 | Play | Installation Games | 00:00 Tools | |
83622521 | Play | Waiting To Submerge | 00:00 Tools | |
83622530 | Play | 04. You Got To Run It Out, Dawson! | 00:00 Tools | |
83622522 | Play | Under Heaven There Is Great Di | 00:00 Tools | |
83622523 | Play | Empaté | 00:00 Tools | |
83622525 | Play | Slowly I Turn ... Step By Step ... Inch By Inch | 00:00 Tools | |
83622524 | Play | I'm Whining For The Funky Baby Of Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
83622527 | Play | You Fool! You Broke The Yolks | 00:00 Tools | |
83622526 | Play | Jazz Improv | 00:00 Tools | |
83622529 | Play | The Pardon Our French Medley | 00:00 Tools | |
88594116 | Play | March of the Cookie Cutters (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622528 | Play | Under Heaven There Is Great Disorder (And... | 00:00 Tools | |
83622537 | Play | Slowly I Turn … Step By Step … Inch By Inch | 00:00 Tools | |
83622531 | Play | Joosan Lost,The Fate | 00:00 Tools | |
83622532 | Play | 02 - Conversational Paradigms | 00:00 Tools | |
88594115 | Play | Conversational Paradigms (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
88594114 | Play | The Secret Life of Walter Riddle (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622533 | Play | Theme From ESPN X-Treme Cobalt Blue 4"x4" Bathroom Tile Installation Games | 00:00 Tools | |
90270503 | Play | Hartford's Coffin (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
90270504 | Play | Paranoiac (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
88594117 | Play | Seven Rusty Nails (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
83622534 | Play | Mister Class and Quality-Three Friends | 00:00 Tools | |
83622535 | Play | The Souls Of The Damned Live I | 00:00 Tools | |
83622536 | Play | Joosan Lost-The Fate | 00:00 Tools | |
83622538 | Play | The Oddessa steps Sequence | 00:00 Tools | |
83622539 | Play | Dreamsof Peace | 00:00 Tools | |
90270505 | Play | You Got to Run It Out Dawson (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
88594119 | Play | Theme from ESPN X-treme | 00:00 Tools | |
83622540 | Play | Humiliating incident... | 00:00 Tools | |
83622541 | Play | 05 - With Grim Determination, Terrell Dons the Bow Tie | 00:00 Tools | |
88594118 | Play | Scaface | 00:00 Tools | |
83622542 | Play | Pioneers Over "C" | 00:00 Tools | |
83622543 | Play | I'm Whining For That Funky Bab | 00:00 Tools |
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.