Sunday, May 25, 2008

Album of the Week #40: UPF 10th Anniversary

Project name: Mune Mud
Album name: Underwater Problem Factory 10th Anniversary Collection
Release date: December 31, 2002
Release format: CD Extra
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Underwater Problem Factory 10th Anniversary Collection

Tracks:
1. One Last Time
2. Time, That's What
3. Gridlock
4. In My Heart
5. I Don't Get It
6. Odyssey VI
7. The Smell of Earthworms
8. 5Fifty
9. My Firmament
10. FF
11. Believe Me
12. Eggs to Eternity
13. Go Disco!
14. Xavier's Goat
15. The Grasshopper Child
16. I'll Go Berserk
17. My Style
18. EnVenum Above
19. Rite of Diaboli
20. Holed Up
21. Garden of Hesperides
22. Ben Proud
23. Ring Down the Curtain
24. Nothing Cube

This was the second album in the 10th Anniversary Collection. It was a digital re-release of the 1992 Underwater Problem Factory album.

The album cover and CD label were new designs. The liner notes explained how UPF was an experimental album and that there were twenty-four songs recorded during the UPF recording sessions. So this album is the complete catalog of what was recorded during that time.

The new cover also has the same quote that the original album had on its cover, "If it looks like strudel, treat it like strudel!" It was credited to Steve Hart, a co-worker of Jason's, on the original album. This time it was added "in memory of Steve Hart". Steve died a few years ago and this was a tribute to him.

The first nineteen tracks are the same as what was on the original album. Tracks 20-24 are the bonus tracks. All of the bonus tracks were outtakes, incomplete songs or deemed not worthy of being on the album. "Garden of Hesperides" was used as the 'b-side' for the "Believe Me" single that came out later in 1992.

And this has been the only CD to date released by Metal XOR Studio that was considered a CD Extra. In addition to the audio, it contained documents and picture files pertaining to the UPF era. These were little trivia fun-fact items to make the collectors happy.


Next week's Album of the Week: Pryme Material 10th Anniversary Collection by Mune Mud from 2003.

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