Short Wave On a Cold Day
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Short Wave on a Cold Day is the sixth album released by Kalamazoo
-based art rock
band Thought Industry
. It was released in 2001 on Metal Blade Records
.
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 art rock
Art rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, with influences from art, avant-garde, and classical music. The first usage of the term, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, was in 1968. Influenced by the work of The Beatles, most notably their Sgt...
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...
. It was released in 2001 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
- Satan in the Gift Shop (Oberlin) 6:47
- I'm Lonely (and Grooving Like Cancer) (Oberlin) 4:00
- The Waitress in the Bar Orbiting Io (Oberlin) 4:18
- Burning Coal With Margaret (music: Baldwin/words: Oberlin) 3:55
- Tall Ships on the Rocks (Oberlin) 3:30
- Kiss Judy Fly (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 3:09
- The Measure of our Miles (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 3:59
- Lovers In Flames (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 3:13
- A week and Seven Days (music: Borkowski/words: Oberlin) 3:53
- Particle Hustler (Oberlin) 2:47
- Longfellow (music: Taylor/words: Oberlin) 4:01
- Hello, Murder (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 4:44
- So Says Ike (Oberlin) 3:11
- Beaufiful Coma (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 4:16
- Interstellar Fix, 2056 (music: Roche/words: Oberlin) 6:13
- Alien and Pure (Oberlin) 4:53
- 4:59
Personnel
- 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... - Mike Roche - guitar
- Cameron Taylor - 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 ....
- Jeff Borkowski - keyboardsKeyboard 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...
, guitar - Mark Baldwin - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Produced by Thought Industry