Arbor Vitae

Arbor Vitae LP coverArbor Vitae CD cover
  

Release Notes:

Rugger Bugger Records, LP, 1995
Honey Bear Records, CD, 1995
  

Band members:

Lance (guitar/vocals/keyboards), Gardner (bass), Reed (drums), Julie (backing vocals)
  

Songs:

Cigarettes Kill
Racked
Drinking Down
Church On Fire
Your Shirt
Disposed To Femininity
Without A Single Word (LP only)
Contempt For Modesty
Swallow
Smoke In My Face
Waiting On The Ground
Mr Backrub
Stinking Seas
Switzerland (LP only)
Transvestite Show (CD only)
  

More info:

'Proper' album number three, recorded in the UK by Frankie Stubbs of Leatherface fame. The LP and CD were released by different labels and in different covers. The LP cover is on the left above, the CD cover is on the right. The track list above is the order in which they appear on vinyl. The CD running order is slightly changed and misses two songs from the LP, but adds Transvestite Show as one of those pesky hidden songs, starting at 26:11 of Stinking Seas.

Most of the songs are written about Los Angeles, where Gardner went to college in the late '80s and where he was soon joined by the other members of his and Lance's previous band Cringer. The album title comes from the name of a street on which Lance and Gardner lived.