Album name: One Way
Release date: unreleased (recorded in 1988-1989)
Release format: cassette
Studio name: none
Tracks:
1. The Fly in Your Eye
2. Summertime
3. F-14
4. Jungle Fever
5. You Are the Bread of My Bologna Sandwich
6. Any Day Now
7. Trop Tard Pour Au Revoir
8. Time
Records of Jason's solo career were not kept very well from 1987-1991. There is an occasional date on a lyric sheet or some other document, but recordings usually were not dated. So that makes it tough to piece together this part of the Studio's history (before the Studio was a studio).
Harry and Jason had finished with their earliest music career (ad-libbed singing to instrumental music on the radio) by 1988 or so. In fact, their band Pheonix had been put together and they were busy with that. But at home Jason continued the radio singing. But now he was recording the music off the radio, writing lyrics to the songs, and then recording himself singing his lyrics to the music he had recorded off the radio. The solo career was evolving.
This was a short album compiling the songs he had recorded this way. It was probably finished in 1988 or 1989. No one has heard this album and possibly never will.
The album title undoubtedly came from a road sign Jason saw somewhere. X-Selsior, with the strange spelling (which he was prone to do in the earlier Studio years), is the name he gave his first solo project. And this was the first time he had compiled songs to make an "album", complete with hand-drawn album cover.
There is only one copy of this album in the world and there are no plans to re-issue it on CD. It is just an embarrassing part of the Studio's early history.
Next week's Album of the Week: Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 1 by Isthmus from 1998.
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