Album of the Week #13: Ideas

Project name: Isthmus
Album name: Ideas
Release date: May 6, 1997
Release format: cassette
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Tracks:
1. King of Pain
2. ? [drum.guitar]
3. Tim Song
4. Wicked Game [slow version]
5. Lithium
6. Bang a Gong
7. Free [version 1]
8. ? [bass.guitar]
9. ? [bass.guitar fast]
10. Basket Case
11. Your Jacket Is Red
12. Here Comes the Sun
13. Walrus
14. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
15. Love Me Do [w/Lovely Rita ending]
16. We Can Work It Out
17. Dead Phone
18. ? [bass.guitar riff]
19. ? [drums.guitar]
20. ? [drums.bass.guitar]
21. [sequence]
22. Farmer's Anguish [studio version]
23. Rap

Was this really an album? Sort of. This was a collection of unused material from the first Isthmus jam on February 5, 1995, the session that resulted in their first album, Electric Field Donut.

This was more for Jason and Harry's enjoyment. In fact, they are the only two that have copies of the album. Almost half the songs on this album were under one minute long, many of the others were under two minutes. And some of the tracks weren't even named, just listed as "?" followed by the instruments used to create them.

The tape also had some cover songs that were not good enough to be on Electric Field Donut. It also had a few originals that were not included on the first album.


Next week's Album of the Week: One Way by X-Selsior from 1990.