Song Engines, by The Nightsoil Coolies

Song Engines

by The Nightsoil Coolies

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1.	Addiction 02:36	info	buy track
2.	Oreo Filler 02:41	info	buy track
3.	Lonely Sister 04:11	info	buy track
4.	College 04:21	info	buy track
5.	Rapid Fire 03:13	info	buy track
6.	Happy 03:30	info	buy track
7.	My Car's Lame 02:19	info	buy track
8.	Rog's Keyboard Song 02:04	info	buy track
9.	Ocean 04:41	info	buy track
10.	1 2 3 4 1 2 3 01:49	info	buy track
11.	Crude 02:49	info	buy track
12.	Shoot For the Brain 03:53	info	buy track
13.	Rog's 113th Dream 04:33	info	buy track
14.	Higher Education 06:33	info	buy track

about

When we first got together in the summer of 1988, two of us lived at 503 S. Hays in Carbondale, Illinois. Late in the summer, new guys moved in next door, and one night, while me and the drummer were jamming, this guy walks over, introduces himself, and asks if he could jam with us. That was all it took. Within a couple of weeks we were writing 5 or 6 news songs every time we got together. Brian, especially, was a song engine, and that inspired the name for this release. We didn't have any money, and needed some promo piece to get our name out (we used these things called cassette tapes). So, we began recording practices, our first gigs in basements, in underground clubs (Club Felix in the Dale, was just down the street from us). We copied and spliced different recordings into this terrible sonic quality DIY demo tape.

I am putting it out here, more as an archive, than a showcase of our quality work. Believe it or not, this got us shows at Mabels and Tritos in Champaign, and at several other clubs in the mid-west. It was a....simpler time then.

credits

released January 1, 1989

Brian Vaughan----guitar, vocals
Tony Aimone-----drums, random shouts and farts
Roger Pugh-----bass, casio keyboard, vocals
Brian and Roger were the principal songwriters
Labor Machine Music, Publishing

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The Nightsoil Coolies Carbondale, Illinois

The Nightsoil Coolies formed when Roger Pugh, Tony Aimone, and Brian Vaughan heard each other playing music on Hays Street in Carbondale, Illinois, in the summer of 1988. Not long after, they were playing out. Brian was a song engine, and before we split in 1991, we had written about 100 songs, and played all over the country. People from around the Dale still ask about us every once in awhile. ... more

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