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 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