Thursday, May 15, 2008

Kleine Krieg

The Legendary Pink Dots, C90, 1981

  1. Defeated - "1981 Version" also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Legendary Pink Box
  2. Deflated - unavailable elsewhere
  3. Black Highway - "Full Band Version" also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Legendary Pink Box
  4. Soma Bath - "Jolly Version" also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Brighter Now
  5. (Wednesday Night Fever) - unavailable elsewhere
  6. Peace Krime #2 - also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Prayer for Aradia bonus tracks
  7. (Birds ) - unavailable elsewhere
  8. Break Day - "Evil Pulse Version" also on Chemical Playschool 1
  9. (Defeated Palace) - unavailable elsewhere
  10. The Palace Of Love - "Prayer Version" unavailable elsewhere
  11. Stoned Obituary - "Pulsing Keybord Version" unavailable elsewhere
  12. (Obituary Shuffle) - unavailable elsewhere
  13. Stars On Sunday - "Edited Version," Full Version on Chemical Playschool 2
  14. Vigie - unavailable elsewhere
  15. Battlefield - unavailable elsewhere
  16. Legacy - "1981 Version" also on Chemical Playschool 2 and Legacy 25th Anniversary Single
  17. (Erin or Eric) - unavailable elsewhere
  18. One For The Pearl Moon - "1981 Version" also on Chemical Playschool 2 and Under Triple Moons
  19. Doll's House - "1981 Version" also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Ancient Daze
  20. Brill - also on Chemical Playschool 1 and Prayer for Aradia bonus tracks
  21. (Choir) - unavailable elsewhere
  22. Down From The Country - also on Traumstadt 5 and Under Triple Moons
  23. (Squeak) - unavailable elsewhere
  24. Thursday Night Fever - "Clicky Version" also on Stained Glass Soma Fountains
  25. Die With Yer Eyes On - also on Stained Glass Soma Fountains
  26. Opus Dei - "Full Version," Edited Version on Stained Glass Soma Fountains

Notes:

  • The Mirrordot edition (which I don't have) includes "Closet Kings" at the end.
  • A track called "Kleine Juliet" is on "Chemical Playschool Volume 10."
  • Mostly a collection of songs that appeared on Chemical Playschool Volumes 1 and 2, crossfaded together, with some new songs and a number of unlisted experiments in between.
  • Future compilation albums that feature these songs invariably use a Kleine Krieg tape instead of the other early tapes -- probably due to the better sound quality here -- but this results in the songs being truncated to remove crossfades.
  • Thus concludes the "first glut" of songs. These first four albums all draw from more-or-less the same group of songs written during 1980-1981, often re-recorded and re-worked, sometimes glued together in different ways. From now on the Dots will be working almost entirely with NEW compositions.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic resource you've put together regarding the early LPD tapes! "Kleine Kreig" means "Little War" in German... You mentioned "Kleine Juliet" from "Chemical Playschool 10," but I imagine its only signifigance is that the track right before it is entitled "Little Romeo".

Anonymous said...

Kleine Krieg might also be a pun/misspelling of the German word "Kleinkrieg" which means "feud".