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Digitally remastered by Bob Drake (Studio Midi-Pyrenees, Caudeval, France in March 2000).
Early Plague Years combines Thinking Plague's first two albums on one CD. Moonsongs was a 1986 cassette released the next year on LP by Dead Man's Curve. ...A Thinking Plague was first released on LP in 1984, then on cassette in 1986. Both were long out of print and impossible to find. The remastering is fabulous, giving these albums a sound far superior to what they ever had. Due to time limitations, a few edits had to be done. "Warheads" misses four bars toward the end, the improv "Collarless Fog That One Day Soon" fades out two minutes earlier, and the percussion section on "Moonsongs" has been shortened a bit. Nothing dramatic and all seamless, but one can't help but wonder why Cuneiform put the second album first on the CD. Fans of Thinking Plague and of American avant-prog bands like the Motor Totemist Guild, U Totem, and 5uu's will be delighted, but newcomers to this style should begin with In This Life or In Extremis. ~ François Couture
Recorded at Free Reelin' Sound and The Yogurt Factory, Denver, Colorado in 1984 & 1986.
Recorded at the Packing House Studio and Free Reelin' Sound, Denver, Colarado in 1982 & 1983.
2 LPs on 1 CD: ...A THINKING PLAGUE (1982)/MOONSONGS (1987).
Personnel includes: Bob Drake (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion); Mark Fuller (drums, timbales).
Producer: Bob Drake, Mike Johnson.
Engineers: Bob Drake, Mark Derryberry.
...A THINKING PLAGUE:
Personnel includes: Bob Drake (vocals, various instruments); Mike Johnson (guitar, piano, synthesizers).
Producers: Bob Drake, Mike Johnson.
Engineer: Bob Drake
MOONSONGS:Alternative Press (4/01, p.87) - 5 out of 5 - "...Navigating that art-damaged wing of the prog spectrum...this is gutsy, gut-wrenching and aggressively ambitious music for the astutue listener..."
Mike Johnson Thinking Plague / Thinking Plague - Early Plague Years Songs
| 1 | Warheads
Thinking Plague | 8:17 | | |
| 2 | Etude For Combo
Thinking Plague | 7:01 | | |
| 3 | Collarless Fog That One Day Soon
Thinking Plague | 3:25 | | |
| 4 | Inside Out
Thinking Plague | 4:13 | | |
| 5 | Moonsongs
Thinking Plague | 15:32 | | |
| 6 | I Do Not
Thinking Plague | 5:04 | | |
| 7 | Possessed
Thinking Plague | 8:19 | | |
| 8 | How To Clean Squid
Thinking Plague | 5:02 | | |
| 9 | Light Is On And Name The World
Thinking Plague | 1:32 | | |
| 10 | Taste That Lingers On
Thinking Plague | 2:12 | | |
| 11 | Four Men In The Rain
Thinking Plague | 2:33 | | |
| 12 | Thorns Of Blue And Red / The War
Thinking Plague | 15:28 | | |
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