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Robert W. Quine (December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
, known for his innovative guitar solo
Guitar solo

Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
s.

A native of Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio

Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio. In 2007, its population was estimated to be 207,934. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland, Ohio to the north and Canton, Ohio to the south, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown in comparison. Critic Mark Demming writes "Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, and his thoughtful technique and uncompromising approach led to rewarding collaborations with a number of visionary musicians."

His collaborators include Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
 (notably on The Blue Mask
The Blue Mask

The Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA....
), Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
 (on Nerve Net), John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
, Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori

, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.She often records on Tzadik , as well as designing the covers for many of their albums....
, Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot is an United States guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music....
, Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
 (Strange Weather
Strange Weather

Strange Weather is the fourth album by Glenn Frey, released in 1992 ....
), Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an England singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work....
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
 (Rain Dogs
Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs is an album by Tom Waits, released in August 1985 in music. It peaked at #188 on Billboard Music Charts's Top 200 albums chart. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s....
), Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
, Odds
Odds (band)

Odds are a Canada alternative rock band. The band's power pop style has been frequently compared to that of contemporaries such as Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Weezer, Tom Petty, Sloan, The Clash, XTC, Franz Ferdinand, Kiss , and The Tubes....
, Jody Harris
Jody Harris

Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas and became a central figure in the seminal No Wave scene in New York City in the 1970s....
 , and many more, including a rare 7" by Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway Bangs was an United States music journalism, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism....
.

Rock critic and friend Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway Bangs was an United States music journalism, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism....
 once said of him:

Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument — he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner
On the Corner

On the Corner is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in June and July 1972 and released later that year on Columbia Records....
-era Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
.


Quine is number 80 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list.

Quine was a nephew of the philosopher W.






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Robert W. Quine (December 30, 1942 – May 31, 2004) was an American guitarist
Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres....
, known for his innovative guitar solo
Guitar solo

Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
s.

A native of Akron, Ohio
Akron, Ohio

Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County, Ohio. In 2007, its population was estimated to be 207,934. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland, Ohio to the north and Canton, Ohio to the south, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown in comparison. Critic Mark Demming writes "Quine's eclectic style embraced influences from jazz, rock, and blues players of all stripes, and his thoughtful technique and uncompromising approach led to rewarding collaborations with a number of visionary musicians."

His collaborators include Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
 (notably on The Blue Mask
The Blue Mask

The Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA....
), Brian Eno
Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
 (on Nerve Net), John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
, Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori

, also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.She often records on Tzadik , as well as designing the covers for many of their albums....
, Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot is an United States guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music....
, Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
 (Strange Weather
Strange Weather

Strange Weather is the fourth album by Glenn Frey, released in 1992 ....
), Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an England singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work....
, Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
 (Rain Dogs
Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs is an album by Tom Waits, released in August 1985 in music. It peaked at #188 on Billboard Music Charts's Top 200 albums chart. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s....
), Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
, Odds
Odds (band)

Odds are a Canada alternative rock band. The band's power pop style has been frequently compared to that of contemporaries such as Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Weezer, Tom Petty, Sloan, The Clash, XTC, Franz Ferdinand, Kiss , and The Tubes....
, Jody Harris
Jody Harris

Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas and became a central figure in the seminal No Wave scene in New York City in the 1970s....
 , and many more, including a rare 7" by Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway Bangs was an United States music journalism, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism....
.

Rock critic and friend Lester Bangs
Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway Bangs was an United States music journalism, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism....
 once said of him:

Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument — he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new, individual vocabulary, driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner
On the Corner

On the Corner is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, recorded in June and July 1972 and released later that year on Columbia Records....
-era Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
.


Quine is number 80 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list.

Quine was a nephew of the philosopher W. V. Quine and cousin (first cousin once removed) of The Black Keys
The Black Keys

The Black Keys are an American blues-rock music duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer/producer Patrick Carney. They were formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001....
' guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach
Dan Auerbach

Daniel Q. Auerbach is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the guitarist and singing for The Black Keys, a Blues rock band from Akron, Ohio....
.

Biography

After graduating from Earlham College
Earlham College

Earlham College is a Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Richmond, Indiana. It was founded in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends and has approximately 1,200 students....
 in 1965, and then earning a law degree from Washington University, Quine practiced tax law for several years before abandoning it. Quine was enrolled in the Berklee School of Music for the 1967-68 semester.

In 1969, Quine made a series of amateurish cassette recordings of The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
 performing live. These saw official release in 2001 by Polydor Records
Polydor Records

Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the United Kingdom, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group....
, titled Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes is a triple live album by The Velvet Underground. It was released on October 16, 2001 by Polydor, the record label overseeing The Velvet Underground's Universal Music Group back catalogue....
. Though rather lo fi in sound quality, the album is an important document of the group. In the liner notes, Quine writes: "I got a lot of pleasure and inspiration from these performances. As a guitar player, they were an important element in shaping what musical direction I wanted to take."

Quine then worked in a movie memorabilia store in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
 with Richard Hell
Richard Hell

Richard Hell is an United States singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Hell is probably best known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids....
 and Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York rock music band Television ....
. Later, he was invited by Hell to join his new band The Voidoids
The Voidoids

The Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell and The Voidoids, were an American rock music rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers....
, thus making punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 history and beginning his musical career. Hell's two Voidoid albums feature Quine's distinctive guitar work; guitarist Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot is an United States guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music....
 once said about Quine that "in terms of punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 guitar soloing, [Quine] could definitely be called the inventor," while critic Ira Robbins describes his work as "stunning and underrated".

The Voidoids dissolved, and Quine's next recordings were with Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch is an United States singer, poet, writer, and actress....
, Jody Harris
Jody Harris

Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas and became a central figure in the seminal No Wave scene in New York City in the 1970s....
 and Material
Material (band)

Material is a musical group formed in 1979 and led by bass guitarist Bill Laswell....
. From September 1979 to July 1980, Quine and Harris recorded various guitar improvisations with a drum machine. In 1981, some of those experiments were released as the Harris/Quine album, Escape. With Material bandmate Fred Maher
Fred Maher

Fred Maher is an United States drummer, programmer and record producer.He was a member of Massacre , Material , Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, and is best known as the producer of I'm Talking's album "Bear Witness" , Lou Reed's album, New York , Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend , and Information Society's self titled album , their 199...
, Quine recorded his only other solo album, Basic
Basic (album)

A 1984 instrumental album by guitarist Robert Quine and drummer Fred Maher....
, released in 1984.

In the early 1980s, former Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
 drafted Quine to join his group. He appeared on Reed's The Blue Mask
The Blue Mask

The Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA....
 (1982), acclaimed as one of Reed's best albums. The Reed-Quine guitar work is exemplary -- arguably among the best either man had to offer -- crafting interlocking duels that blur the lines between rhythm
Rhythm guitar

Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
 and lead
Lead guitar

Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
s. 1983's Legendary Hearts
Legendary Hearts

Legendary Hearts is a 1983 album by rock and roll musician Lou Reed. It was dedicated to Reed's wife, Sylvia....
 featured most of the same group, but Quine eventually quit the group due to tensions with Reed. Reed persuaded Quine to rejoin for a world tour which is documented on the video A Night with Lou Reed
A Night with Lou Reed

A Night with Lou Reed is a video by Lou Reed. It is drawn from the same tour as the album Live in Italy , which was released the following year....
 (1983) and the album Live in Italy
Live in Italy (Lou Reed album)

Live In Italy is an album by Lou Reed recorded live in Verona and Rome on September 7 and September 10, 1983 by the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio....
 (1984); Quine disliked touring, but agreed to the tour for financial reasons, ending his partnership with Reed for good in 1985.

Throughout the remainder of the 1980s, Quine made scattered appearances as a session player on records by Tom Waits
Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
, John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
, Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
 and Scritti Politti
Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a United Kingdom band , originally formed in 1978 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Scritti Politti is now primarily a musical vehicle for singer-songwriter Green Gartside , who is the founding member and only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history....
.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Quine began collaborations with a few musicians who would introduce him to new audiences, and who would raise his profile a bit. Genre-smashing saxophonist/composer John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
 hired Quine for several experimental projects; while pop songwriters/singers Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an England singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work....
 and Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
 both made good use of Quine's skills. Sweet's biggest hit song, "Girlfriend," is anchored by Quine's frenetic, squealing guitar work.

Depressed after the death of his wife Alice in August 2003, Quine committed suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
 by heroin
Heroin

Heroin is a opioid synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-acetate ester of morphine . The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, however heroin Freebase may also appear as a white powder....
 overdose
Drug overdose

The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced....
 in his New York home on May 31, 2004.

Quotes

"You gotta hear this new box I got, it creates the most offensive noise ..." (to Lester Bangs)


Discography


Solo

  • Escape (with Jody Harris
    Jody Harris

    Jody Harris is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer who was born in Kansas and became a central figure in the seminal No Wave scene in New York City in the 1970s....
    ) (1981)
  • Basic
    Basic (album)

    A 1984 instrumental album by guitarist Robert Quine and drummer Fred Maher....
     (with Fred Maher
    Fred Maher

    Fred Maher is an United States drummer, programmer and record producer.He was a member of Massacre , Material , Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, and is best known as the producer of I'm Talking's album "Bear Witness" , Lou Reed's album, New York , Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend , and Information Society's self titled album , their 199...
    ) (1984)
  • Come Together: Guitar Tribute to the Beatles, Vol. 2 (with Jody Harris) (1995)

Richard Hell & the Voidoids

  • Blank Generation (1977)
  • Destiny Street
    Destiny Street

    Destiny Street is the second and last studio album by punk band Richard Hell and The Voidoids. It was originally released in 1982 on Red Star Records, and was reissued in 1995 by Razor & Tie....
     (1982)
  • R.I.P.: The ROIR Sessions (1984)
  • Funhunt (Live at CBGB & Max's) (1990)
  • Oh (2000)

Richard Hell
Richard Hell

Richard Hell is an United States singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Hell is probably best known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids....

  • Go Now (1995)
  • Time (2002)

Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....

  • The Blue Mask
    The Blue Mask

    The Blue Mask is the eleventh studio album by singer-songwriter Lou Reed. It was the first album released after Reed left Arista and returned to RCA....
     (1982)
  • Legendary Hearts
    Legendary Hearts

    Legendary Hearts is a 1983 album by rock and roll musician Lou Reed. It was dedicated to Reed's wife, Sylvia....
     (1983)
  • Live in Italy
    Live in Italy (Lou Reed album)

    Live In Italy is an album by Lou Reed recorded live in Verona and Rome on September 7 and September 10, 1983 by the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio....
     (1984)
  • Between Thought and Expression]' (1992)

Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....

  • Earth
    Earth (Matthew Sweet album)

    Earth is the second album by alternative rock singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet. It was released by A&M Records in 1989....
     (1989)
  • Girlfriend
    Girlfriend (album)

    Girlfriend is the third album by Matthew Sweet, his most commercially and critically successful album to date, named one of the Top 100 albums of the 1990's by Rolling Stone....
     (1991)
  • Altered Beast
    Altered Beast (album)

    Altered Beast is the fourth album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. Released by Zoo Entertainment in 1993, the initial response to this record was cool compared to Girlfriend, with Rolling Stone writing that the album was "[f]rustratingly uneven," with "inspiring moments; the problem is finding them."...
     (1993)
  • Son of Altered Beast
    Son of Altered Beast

    Son of Altered Beast is an extended play by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. Released following Altered Beast in 1994 by Zoo Entertainment, it contains alternate versions of various Sweet songs....
     (1994)
  • 100% Fun
    100% Fun

    100% Fun is the fifth album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released by Zoo Entertainment in 1995. The track "Sick of Myself" was a hit single reaching number 2 on the Billboard magazine Modern Rock chart and appeared on the top 100 pop song charts of the day....
     (1995)

Lloyd Cole
Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an England singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work....

  • Lloyd Cole (1990)
  • Don't Get Weird On Me Babe (1991)
  • Love Story (1995)
  • Etc. (2001)

Material
Material (band)

Material is a musical group formed in 1979 and led by bass guitarist Bill Laswell....

  • Temporary Music
    Temporary Music

    Temporary Music is the 1979 debut EP and 1981 debut album by the New York based No Wave music group Material .The band had previously worked with Daevid Allen on New York Gong's 1979 About Time album....
     (1981)
  • Red Tracks (1982)
  • Secret Life (1998)
  • Best of Material (1999)

John Zorn
John Zorn

John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....

  • The Big Gundown
    The Big Gundown (album)

    The Big Gundown is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn. It comprises radically reworked covers of tracks by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone....
     (1984)
  • Spillane
    Spillane (album)

    Spillane is an album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn, comprised of three 'file-card' pieces, as well as a work for voice, string quartet and Phonograph....
     (1986)
  • Filmworks 1986-1990
    Filmworks 1986-1990

    Filmworks 1986-1990 features the first released film scores of John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Nonesuch Records label in 1992 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997 after being out of print for several years....
     (1992)
  • Filmworks III: 1990-1995
    Filmworks III: 1990-1995

    Filmworks III: 1990-1995 features the scores for film and advertisements by John Zorn. The album was originally eleased on the Japanese Toys Factory and Evva labels in 1996 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997....
     (1996)
  • Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy
    Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy

    Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy is a film score by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1997. It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for the movie "Tears Of Ecstasy" by director Oki Hiroyuki....
     (1996)
  • Filmworks IV: S&M (1997)
  • Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour
    Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour

    Filmworks VII: Cynical Hysterie Hour is a 1989 album by John Zorn featuring music written for a a series of Japanese animated shorts that were created by Kiriko Kubo....
     (1997)
  • Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach (1997)
  • Bribe (1998)
  • Godard/Spillane
    Godard/Spillane

    Godard/Spillane is a compilation album by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting of music created through Zorn's file-card compositional process....
     (1999)

Other artists

  • Let It Blurt - Lester Bangs
    Lester Bangs

    Leslie Conway Bangs was an United States music journalism, author and musician. Most famous for his work at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism....
     (1977)
  • Queen of Siam
    Queen of Siam

    Queen of Siam is the solo debut album of underground icon Lydia Lunch. It features her off-key and snarling vocals, especially on her cover version of the pop song "Spooky "....
     - Lydia Lunch
    Lydia Lunch

    Lydia Lunch is an United States singer, poet, writer, and actress....
     (1979)
  • Off White
    Off White

    Track listing All tracks written by James Chance unless otherwise noted....
     - James White & the Blacks
    James Chance

    James Chance, also known as James White , is an United States saxophonist, songwriter and singer.A key figure in No Wave, Chance has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and Punk rock in the New York City music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, James Chance and the Contort...
     (1979)
  • Get Crazy
    Get Crazy

    Get Crazy is a 1983 in film directed by Allan Arkush and starring Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield, Daniel Stern , and Ed Begley, Jr.....
     - film soundtrack (1983)
  • Rain Dogs
    Rain Dogs

    Rain Dogs is an album by Tom Waits, released in August 1985 in music. It peaked at #188 on Billboard Music Charts's Top 200 albums chart. In 1989, it was ranked #21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s....
     - Tom Waits
    Tom Waits

    Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
     (1985)
  • Cupid & Psyche 85
    Cupid & Psyche 85

    Cupid & Psyche 85 is the second album by the United Kingdom New Wave music pop group Scritti Politti.It was the band's most successful album to date, reaching no.5 in the UK and no.50 in the US....
     - Scritti Politti
    Scritti Politti

    Scritti Politti are a United Kingdom band , originally formed in 1978 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Scritti Politti is now primarily a musical vehicle for singer-songwriter Green Gartside , who is the founding member and only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history....
     (1985)
  • Dirtdish
    Dirtdish

    Dirtdish is an music album by Wiseblood. It was released in 1987 by K.422/Some Bizzare Records as an gramophone record, compact audio cassette, and CD....
     - Wiseblood (1986)
  • Strange Weather
    Strange Weather (Marianne Faithfull album)

    Strange Weather is a 1987 studio album by British singer Marianne Faithfull.This album is the first complete studio work recorded by Marianne Faithfull after recovering from a 17-year addiction to heroin in 1986....
          - Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull

    Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
     (1987)
  • Quilt - The Shams
    The Shams

    The Shams were an all-female New York City folk pop trio in the 1980's and early 1990's, featuring Amy Rigby, Sue Garner and Amanda Uprichard. Some critics have credited the band with pioneering elements of what would later become known as the Americana and Alternative country movements in American music....
     (1991)
  • Dim Stars - Dim Stars
    Dim Stars

    Dim Stars was an alternative rock Supergroup active briefly in the early 1990s. The group was comprised of bassist Richard Hell of The Voidoids, guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth, guitarist Don Fleming from Gumball , and some guitar work by Robert Quine, also of the Voidoids....
     (1992)
  • Nerve Net
    Nerve net

    For the album by Brian Eno, see Nerve Net .A nerve net is a type of simple nervous system that is found in members of the phylum cnidaria....
     - Brian Eno
    Brian Eno

    Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno , is an England musician, composer, record producer, music theory and singer, who, as a solo artist, is best known as the People known as the father or mother of something of ambient music....
     (1992)
  • To Hell With Love - Suzanne Rhatigan
    Suzanne Rhatigan

    Suzanne Rhatigan, is an Ireland singer songwriter born in Dublin. She moved to London in the early 1980s and found work as a session singer for Stock, Aitken and Waterman Records, before embarking ona solo career, recording her debut album with Fred Maher in 1992, To Hell With Love, which was released the following year....
     (1992)
  • Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus - Hal Willner
    Hal Willner

    Hal Willner is an United States music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute albums and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles ....
     (1992)
  • Bedbugs
    Bedbugs (album)

    Bedbugs is a 1993 album by Odds .The album's most successful single was "Heterosexual Man", which was supported by a video that featured the band appearing in drag as contestants in a beauty pageant judged by The Kids in the Hall....
     - The Odds (1993)
  • I Don't Like Myself - Sion
    Sion

    Sion may refer to:* A transliteration of ZionIn geography:*Sion, Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Valais*Sion, Gers, a municipality in France...
     (1993)
  • John Henry
    John Henry (album)

    John Henry is the name of They Might Be Giants' fifth original album, although it is the sixth disc in their discography. It was released in 1994 ....
     - They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants

    They Might Be Giants is a Grammy Award-winning Music of the United States alternative rock band which began as a duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and currently also includes Marty Beller, Dan Miller , and Danny Weinkauf....
     (1994)
  • El Abrazo Del Erizo Mikel Erentxun
    Mikel Erentxun

    Mikel Erentxun is a Spanish Rock en Espa?ol singer. Formerly with the group Duncan Dhu, he started his solo career in 1992. He has released six albums as a solo artist and has covered The Smiths' song, "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", as "Esta luz nunca se apagar?", as well as Morrissey's "Everyday Is Like Sunday" as "Todo es Igual...
     (1995)
  • Love is Wild... Life is Violent... - Katy Clements (1996)
  • Don't Tell Me - Eddie Skuller (1996)
  • Valdun—Voices of Rumantsch- Corin Curschellas (1997)
  • Painted Desert - Ikue Mori
    Ikue Mori

    , also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, composer, and graphic designer.She often records on Tzadik , as well as designing the covers for many of their albums....
     (with Marc Ribot
    Marc Ribot

    Marc Ribot is an United States guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music....
    ) (1997)
  • Vibe of Life - Reiss
    Reiss

    Reiss is a village in the former county of Caithness, now in the Highland of Northern Scotland. It is well known in the Caithness area for its beach and also the 18-hole Wick, Highland golf course....
     (1998)
  • Cold Tube - Kazuyoshi Saito (2000)
  • Singles—Individually Wrapped - The Odds (2000)
  • Songs - Sion
    Sion

    Sion may refer to:* A transliteration of ZionIn geography:*Sion, Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Valais*Sion, Gers, a municipality in France...
     (2000)
  • Michael Maxwell - Michael Maxwell (2000)
  • Presents Beyond Cyberpunk - Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer (guitarist)

    Wayne Kramer is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and film and TV composer.Kramer came to prominence as a teenager in 1967 as a co-founder of the Detroit rock group MC5 , a group known for their powerful live performances and radical left-wing political stance....
     (2001)
  • Bait and Switch - Andre Williams
    Andre Williams

    Andre Williams is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit....
     (2001)
  • Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes
    Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes

    Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes is a triple live album by The Velvet Underground. It was released on October 16, 2001 by Polydor, the record label overseeing The Velvet Underground's Universal Music Group back catalogue....
     - The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
     (2001)
  • Lustro
    Lustro

    Lustro is the third album by the Cl?....
     - Michael DuClos (2002)
  • Cross-Eyed and Bow-Legged - Tom Clark and the High Action Boys (2002)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Sonny Vincent
    Sonny Vincent

    Sonny Vincent is one of the small group of New York City musicians who were instrumental in the creation of what became known as Punk rock in the mid-1970s....
     (2003)
  • Nowhere Land - Kazuyoshi Saito (2003)
  • Lys Guillorn - Lys Guillorn (2003)


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