Stupidest Hits, Vol. 1

From The Secret History of the Cedar Valley

Contents 1 Album Information 2 Track Listing 3 Liner Notes 4 Comments

Album Information

A 90 min cassette tape by Crock of Dookey containing a wide variety of lo-fi tracks recorded in many different ways from 1986-1987. Never was really released officially, though in the summer of 1988, Dork Tapes advertised it as a release, and though the packaging was designed and the master tape was ready, it was never actually released to the public. It mainly circulated among friends of the band, such as Jason Hartman.

Some tracks were recorded with Nic Durnin in his basement studio (his voice can be heard giving some encouragement and advice), others were live tracks mostly from shows played at Dean's Parkade Lounge. Some tracks were Brian Stockdale's solo work ("Evil People in Washing Machines"), and others were Matt Wilson's first love songs played on acoustic guitar ("Trapped"). Also included were several sound experiments ("Flying Saucer") inspired by the Beatles Christmas albums, improvisations ("Second Glances II"), and complete goofs ("Second Glances"), a 11 min track played on an old Casio keyboard.

No audio professionals were involved in the recording or dubbing of this tape. There was no mixing or mastering done. The cover design was a drawing taped to a dot matrix computer printout which was photocopied.

Track Listing

• Side 1
  1. Broken Promise
  2. Cool Ass Punk Mother Fucker - CAPMF.mp3 (748K)
  3. Cymbal Pot Song - CymbalPot.mp3 (636K)
  4. Get Out of My Nightmare
  5. Brainless Whale (Live)
  6. Coffee
  7. Crock of Dookey Theme Song
  8. Sociopath
  9. Sesame Street
  10. Punko (Live)
  11. The Simple Secret (Live)
  12. Kittycat Vampire (Live)
  13. She Sleeps Alone
  14. Somebody Shoot Me
  15. Professionals (Ride the Bus)
  16. I Started Laughing (Live)
  17. Second Glances

• Side 2
  1. Jungle (Live)
  2. One of these days
  3. Beener
  4. I don't know when I'll get the Money (Live)
  5. Second Glances II
  6. Trapped
  7. John Merrick's Jabba (Live)
  8. Beautiful Dream
  9. Evil People in Washing Machines
  10. We are Dead (Original Version - Vocals by Dan and Steve Wilson)
  11. We are Dead
  12. Sociopath (Brian's Version)
  13. Flying Saucer
  14. Second Glances (Outake 1)
  15. Second Glances (Outake 2)
  16. Brainless Quail (reprise)
  17. Sfrad (Live)
  18. The Party's Moving Inside

Liner Notes

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Comments

• This is probably some of the most unlistenable music ever produced in the Cedar Valley. It was, however, great fun. - Matt Wilson