The Allegheny White Fish Tapes is stated by Tobacco to be a "collection of tobacco's early tapes from 1996-1999. over 70 minutes of mostly unreleased/unheard broken ghetto-blaster songs. warped drum machines, purple noise, ripped cassettes, and melodies to calm you down. pre-vocoder & synths, post-apocalypse."
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The Allegheny White Fish Tapes cover
The Allegheny White Fish Tapes back cover
The Allegheny White Fish Tapes disc
The Allegheny White Fish Tapes was released in the summer of 2009, but pre-orders shipped as early as May 4, 2009. The album was released on the label Rad Cult, with a catalog number RACU01.
Tracklisting:
- Braided Cellophane (2:19)
- What You Gonna Say To Me? (1:45)
- Sunburned Face (2:38)
- The Bees Love Me (3:53)
- Left Out (The Freaky Pieces) (3:36)
- Enough To Calm You Down (4:29)
- Metal Ball Moon (1:36)
- Backwards Song #2 (0:40)
- Dead Cowboy Dance (Live to Ghettoblaster) (4:01)
- The Blue Seahorse (2:46)
- 4-Track Phone Mistake (1:28)
- The Love Song (2:41)
- Gonna Git You Brainwashed (Long Version) (3:49)
- Oh Shit Doug (2:47)
- I Am 6 Years Old (5:20)
- Eating Butterflies (2:46)
- I Saw Brown (4:39)
- All Songs Have An Ending (5:28)
- Too Weird To Be A Tree (3:30)
- Violet Induced Armpit (3:09)
- Friendly and Unfriendly Spiders (4:21)
- Untitled (0:11)
- Goodbye Method (4:48)
- Tracks 22 and 23 are not listed
The liner notes describe the origin of each track, and read as:
- 1-6, 17 & 18 from the album The Anti Freakout Method, released as CDR in 1999, less than 40 copies made
- 7 & 8 from EP 1996, released on cassette in 1996, less than 20 copies made
- 9 recorded live to ghetto blaster in 1996 with Doug, and the mysterious Justin, previously unreleased
- 10 from EP 97, released on cassette in 1997, less than 10 copies m ade
- 11 recorded in 1997, previously unreleased
- 12 from the mini album The Fucked Sound, released on cassette in 1998, less than 15 copies made
- 13 & 14 from the album Bad Vibrations, released on cassette in 1999, less than 15 copies made
- 15 from the Bad Vibrations sessions, previously unreleased
- 16 released as an mp3 single in 1999
- 17 - 20 from the Violet Induced Armpit: Good Songs Infinity EP, released on cassette in 1999, but never given out
- 21 recorded live with drums in 1999, previously unreleased, the last recorded AWF song