The Muffins

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Monkey With the Golden Eyes 04:02 Tools
Hobart Got Burned 05:58 Tools
Amelia Earhart 15:47 Tools
They Come On Unknown Nights 04:19 Tools
The Adventures of Captain Boomerang 22:48 Tools
Choombachang 02:45 Tools
The Ugly Buttling 03:39 Tools
The Highlands 06:03 Tools
Exquisite Corpse 06:55 Tools
Frozen Charlotte 02:54 Tools
Dawning Star 05:17 Tools
Horsebones 02:41 Tools
Zoom Resume 07:16 Tools
Queenside 05:20 Tools
Writing Blind 05:53 Tools
Antidote to Drydock 05:08 Tools
Under Dali's Wing 03:18 Tools
Angle Dance 04:11 Tools
Apparently 03:32 Tools
Early American Ears 01:15 Tools
Subduction 00:59 Tools
The Bush 02:43 Tools
These Castle Children 07:36 Tools
Cat's Game 03:50 Tools
Chronometers 23:01 Tools
5:00 Shadow 03:15 Tools
Come What Molten Cloud 02:52 Tools
Courtesy of Your Focal Interest Span 00:43 Tools
Street Dogs 01:20 Tools
Dream Beat 03:34 Tools
Joe Crop on a Toxic Planet 05:09 Tools
The Manilla Robots 02:20 Tools
Angel From Lebanon 06:54 Tools
Creature Comforts 01:28 Tools
Please Do Not Open Dr. Fischer 02:22 Tools
Mammoth Hide 01:33 Tools
The Man in the Skin-Painted Suit 02:43 Tools
Look at the Size of That Sponge 01:44 Tools
You Eat Them Pears 05:07 Tools
Crezner OK 03:40 Tools
Maya 04:23 Tools
L 01:24 Tools
Blind Cave Tetra 02:45 Tools
Walking the Duck 02:58 Tools
Peacocks, Leopards, and Glass 03:40 Tools
Like a Machine That Only Works When It's Working Right 01:59 Tools
Three Days That Won't Soon Fade 02:55 Tools
The Two Georges 05:19 Tools
Evening Hataiya 01:36 Tools
The Angels' Share 03:27 Tools
2 from Chronometers 04:19 Tools
Military Road 03:15 Tools
Metropolis 03:34 Tools
Childhood's End 06:13 Tools
Not Yet Awake 09:12 Tools
Stethorus Punctum 04:00 Tools
Fishing In America 02:32 Tools
Impossible John 01:53 Tools
When Fela Comes to Town 03:22 Tools
Dynamite Is Not the Solution 05:32 Tools
World Maps 06:08 Tools
Vanity, Vanity 02:47 Tools
Sam's Room 02:38 Tools
Dear Mona 03:16 Tools
Down from the Sun Tower 01:29 Tools
King Fish 04:48 Tools
People In the Snow 05:54 Tools
Boxed & Crossed 05:39 Tools
Dancing in Sunrise, Switzerland 03:12 Tools
Essay R 05:55 Tools
Big Spoons 01:42 Tools
Blind Arch 08:53 Tools
Bats and Birds 11:12 Tools
Brix 03:19 Tools
Not Alone 13:39 Tools
Expected Freedom 02:24 Tools
Like a Machine 02:04 Tools
In the Red 05:10 Tools
3 Pennies 04:16 Tools
Labor Day 03:39 Tools
East of Diamond 06:49 Tools
Out of the Boot 07:00 Tools
Why Pursue It 03:21 Tools
Open City 00:52 Tools
Yukapoe's Lament 07:14 Tools
Commander Scott on Mars 01:54 Tools
Permutations 04:25 Tools
Countdown 04:53 Tools
Wombat 02:34 Tools
The Lagoon 05:15 Tools
Little Squares 03:25 Tools
Sure Thing 03:34 Tools
Cutups 02:53 Tools
Trench Mouth 04:57 Tools
Exotic Woods 02:17 Tools
Never Slap A Monkey 03:18 Tools
Illegal Aliens 04:33 Tools
In the Ghost Light (Edit) 03:29 Tools
Peacocks, Leopards and Glass 03:44 Tools
English_The Hot Band 02:14 Tools
Try 02:17 Tools
Six Thick Thistle Sticks 00:30 Tools
Going Softly 05:25 Tools
Optics 03:11 Tools
6 Dozen Names 03:31 Tools
Parade March 04:07 Tools
In The Ghost Light 03:28 Tools
Uncle Don_Crezner Okay_Blind Cave Tetra 05:25 Tools
Selamat Datang Pagi 03:14 Tools
Raw Blod Jam 01:28 Tools
Finally 02:34 Tools
Late For Work 06:15 Tools
Echo Beach ((Deejays Radio Mix)) - (Deejays Radio Mix) 04:12 Tools
Beat 10 04:31 Tools
Double Disc 02:23 Tools
No Postcards 04:46 Tools
Angle Dance (remix) 00:00 Tools
Horsebones (remix) 02:28 Tools
Going Masked 04:32 Tools
Queenside (remix) 00:00 Tools
Zoom Resume (remix) 07:15 Tools
Angle Dance (Bonus Track) 04:11 Tools
These Castle Children (remix) 00:00 Tools
Antidoteto Drydock 04:52 Tools
Angle Dance [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Antidote to Drydock [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Horsebones (Bonus Track) 02:28 Tools
Under Dali's Wing (remix) 03:07 Tools
Antidote To Drydock (Bonus Track) 04:52 Tools
These Castle Children (Bonus Track) 07:10 Tools
Zoom Resume (Bonus Track) 07:15 Tools
Salahkah Ku 02:59 Tools
The Angels’ Share 03:28 Tools
Two Extracts From Chronometers 04:10 Tools
Zoom Resume [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Queenside [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Horsebones [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Under Dali's Wing (Bonus Track) 03:07 Tools
Washington DC 1977 Pt. 1 46:20 Tools
Under Dali’s Wing 03:10 Tools
These Castle Children [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Queenside (Bonus Track) 05:37 Tools
She Wears Her Dead Mother's Hat 02:50 Tools
Antidote to Drydock (Remix) 04:52 Tools
Nan True's Hole 01:17 Tools
Dreambeat 03:34 Tools
Yukapoe’s Lament 07:16 Tools
But Not For Others 02:16 Tools
Washington DC 1977 Pt. 2 03:32 Tools
Echo Beach 00:00 Tools
Salahkah ku? 02:59 Tools
Like A Machine That Only Works When It’s Working Right 01:59 Tools
QSL 05:41 Tools
In This World 04:40 Tools
The Muffins - 03 - Salahkah ku? 03:34 Tools
Three Days That Won’t Soon Fade 02:55 Tools
Captain Boomerang Excerpt 05:25 Tools
Andainya 03:34 Tools
Subway Traveler 03:24 Tools
Happy Now? 04:40 Tools
Essay R (Alternate Mix) 05:53 Tools
Under Dali's Wing [Remix] 05:25 Tools
Chickenhead 11:15 Tools
Knitting Factory Blues 02:41 Tools
Monsta 02:41 Tools
Dr. Mid-Nite 03:53 Tools
Mimpi Lagi 01:59 Tools
Queenside [demo] 05:20 Tools
Under Dali’s Wing [remix] 03:07 Tools
Smooth Joe 02:54 Tools
Dog Park 05:06 Tools
Down From The Sun Tower/Impossible John 03:24 Tools
Childhood’s End 06:15 Tools
Cat’s Game 03:51 Tools
Dancing In Sunrise, Switzerlan 03:12 Tools
Champagne Alert 03:12 Tools
Hobart Got Burned [demo] 02:41 Tools
Uncle Don 02:41 Tools
Sam’s Room 02:38 Tools
The Muffins -03- Amelia Earhart 02:41 Tools
AntidoteTo Drydock (remix) 02:41 Tools
Horsebones [demo] 02:41 Tools
16 Two Extracts From Chronometers 13:39 Tools
Antidote To Drydock [demo] 05:08 Tools
Boxed & Crossed [demo] 05:08 Tools
And Now Back to George Lopez 02:41 Tools
The Hot Band 13:39 Tools
Antidote To Dry-Dock (remix) 02:41 Tools
Mimpi Lagi (Lagu Baru) 02:38 Tools
The Muffins -02- Hobart Got Burned 02:38 Tools
You Better Find It Now 02:38 Tools
2 From "Chronometers" 04:17 Tools
Zoom Resume [demo] 02:55 Tools
Under Dali’s Wing [demo] 02:55 Tools
Vanity, Vanity [outtake from F. Frith’s album “Gravity”] 02:47 Tools
English 13:39 Tools
Expected Freedom [outtake from “Manna/Mirage”] 02:47 Tools
Three Days that Won't Soon Fad 02:55 Tools
Open City [recorded for “Take One” radio show, March 3, 1977] 02:47 Tools
Not Alone [recorded for “Take One” radio show, March 3, 1977] 13:39 Tools
World Maps 1 13:39 Tools
World Maps 2 13:39 Tools
Zoom Resume [Remix Bonus] 02:55 Tools
Like A Machine That Only Works 02:55 Tools
Dengarlah kasih 02:55 Tools
Salahkahku 02:55 Tools
06 01:56 Tools
Dancing In Sunrise, Switzerland [outtake from F. Frith’s album “Gravity”] 01:56 Tools
Blind Arch [excerpt from live performance, June 4, 1977] 01:56 Tools
05 03:28 Tools
The Angel's Share 13:39 Tools
01 13:39 Tools
English/The Hot Band 02:14 Tools
Antidote To Dry-Dock [Remix Bonus] 02:14 Tools
Vanity Vanity 02:14 Tools
World Maps 3 02:14 Tools
02 02:14 Tools
04 02:14 Tools
At Home with The Muffins 02:14 Tools
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Almost entirely instrumental, the Muffins' music is a unique blend of Canterbury progressive, fusion, improvisation and much more. The group was formed in the Washington, DC area in 1973 by Dave Newhouse (keyboards), Billy Swan (vocals, bass and guitar), Tom Scott (woodwinds) and Michael Zentner (guitar and violin). Stuart Abramowitz played drums from August 1975 until July 1976. This group recorded the home and studio demo recordings heard on the Chronometers CD. Zentner and Abramowitz left in July 1976. Drummer Paul Sears joined the next month, setting the stage for the group's most popular period. The group released Manna/Mirage in 1978, and soon after released a limited-edition, live LP called Air Fiction. The band also worked with Fred Frith on his solo LP, Gravity. Frith produced the band's next LP, <185>, in late 1980. The Muffins disbanded six months later in 1981. In the early '90s, the band played at a private party, resulting in "Hobart Got Burned" on the Unsettled Scores compilation (Cuneiform,1995), and it wasn't until July 16, 1998, that group came together again -- this time for a reunion show in Washington, D.C. This reunion lasted, leading to a number of concerts by the Muffins over the next several years. Tom Scott, Paul Sears, Billy Swan and Dave Newhouse also hit the studios in 2001, resulting in first Loveletter #1 (2001) and then Bandwidth (2002). The band has continued to record and play shows and festivals. Double Negative, featuring a wide array of guests (inculding members of Sun Ra's Arkestra), was released in 2004. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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