Surface Meets Surface

Surface Meets Surface compilation cover
  

Release Notes:

Grade A Tapes, Cassette, 1994
  

Band members:

Lance (guitar/vocals), Gardner (bass), Brendan (drums)
  

Songs:

J Church - No Surprise (live)
The Rickets - I Can't Think
Dead And Gone - Instinct
Siren - Some Words
Among The Thugs - Jake Don't Fly Away
Artless Motives - Give
The Nimrods - California
Schoolbox - Mr. Belligerent
The Unhappy - Ode To Josh
The Potatomen - The Avenue
Kid Dynamo - Constellation
Queen Mab - Flower
The Skirts - Mad Max
One Man Running - Search
F.R.E.D. - Strike Three
The Tourettes - Hooked On Phonics
Krupted Peasant Farmers - Moral Slavery
Truant - Better Days
The Gr'ups - Jabberwocky
Dead And Gone - One More Time
Artless Motives - Second Chances
Queen Mab - Vapid
F.R.E.D. - Monsters
Among The Thugs - Bore Your Way Inside
Kid Dynamo - Eureka Song
Krupted Peasant Farmers - Nuclear Race
J Church - New Dreams Broken (live)
The Unhappy - Park Bench
The Nimrods - Happy
One Man Running - Jet Airliner
The Tourettes - Horse Girl's Don't
Sirens - Foolish Things
Red #9 - Red
The Gr'ups - Argh! Fuck! Kill!
Schoolbox - Carefree
The Rickets - California
Tilt - Nothing From You
  

More info:

Drue Albeit found this one. "The cover is from Orwell's Animal Farm. Inside the tape cover are a lot of political facts. On the two live J Church songs, the bass is real low and can almost not be heard over the squealing distortion and feedback of Lance's amp."

Rob of vinehell.com, who played on this release as part of Krupted Peasant Farmers and who sent the cover scan, adds: "I believe it was a lo-fi home dubbed tape with stickers applied to it, not an official tape". That said, there is an ad on the inlay card for further tapes from the address, so it looks like it was from a home tape label, the sort of thing that was quite popular (though generally more 'professional') in the days before cheap CD burners. It's not technically a bootleg, which is why it's in this section, but it's not a great deal more than that. Either way, it's not likely you're going to be seeing many copies around.

The J Church tracks were recorded at Gilman Street prior to the recording of Prophylaxis. The entire album was played live several times before they entered the studio, partly to familiarise the band (better prepared = quicker recording = lower bills) and partly for song development.