Outer Space Is Just a Martini Away
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Outer Space is Just a Martini Away is the third album from Kalamazoo
-based progressive metal
band Thought Industry
. Released in 1996 on Metal Blade Records
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to...
-based progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
band Thought Industry
Thought Industry
American progressive metal band Thought Industry in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1989 by vocalist/bassist Brent Oberlin, drummer Dustin Donaldson , guitarist Christopher Lee Simmonds , and guitarist Steve Spaeth who replaced original Desecrater guitarist, Dan Roe...
. Released in 1996 on Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...
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Track listing
- Love is America Spelled Backwards (Oberlin) 2:42
- Jeb and the Haymaker (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Bryant, Oberlin, Enzio, Lee) 3:05
- Fairy (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Enzio) 4:29
- The Squid (Oberlin) 3:38
- Dante Dangling from a Noose (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Enzio) 2:45
- I'm Jack Frost Junior (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Oberlin, Enzio, Lee) 4:25
- Pinto Award in Literature (Oberlin) 2:10
- Soot on the Radio (Oberlin) 3:51
- Watercolour Grey (Oberlin) 4:58
- Sharron Sours (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Lee) 5:04
- D.I.Y. Tranquilizers (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Lee) 4:11
- Fruitcake and Cider (Oberlin) 2:35
- Atomic Stroller Helps None (lyrics: Oberlin/music: Lee) 1:24
- Bottomfeeder (Oberlin) 5:47
Credits
- Brent Oberlin: vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, synth, samplingSampling (music)In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...
, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, electronic percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, acoustic guitar - Christopher Lee: guitar, fretless guitar, piano, acoustic guitar, keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Paul Enzio: guitar, 7 string guitar, classical guitarClassical guitarThe classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
- Herb Ledbetter: bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, fretless bass - Jared Bryant: drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussion, ethnic percussion
- Produced by Thought Industry