Tracklist

#1 You See Through Me
#2 Where Does Your Body Begin?
#3 I See Them All Lined Up
#4 Unreal
#5 Fan Letter
#6 Your Naked Body
#7 Low Life Form
#8 If You...
#9 Why I Ate My Wife
#10 Blind

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Gira, Michael / Drainland

Alternative Tentacles

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VIRUS 166 CD
721616016628
Street Date:
January 19th, 2008
Ship Date:
January 19th, 2008
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Street Date:
January 19th, 2008
Ship Date:
January 19th, 2008

CHECK STOCK! Drainland is a 1995 obscure solo album by me, co-produced by the lovely Bill Rieflin and myself, with musical contributions from Bill and Jarboe. Spare arrangements (recorded in Bill's living room) with the focus on words. Some of this is pretty damn good. Some of it isn't. Ha ha! "You See Through Me" features a surreptitious recording by Jarboe of a drunken rant by me. I think I discovered the cassette one day in a drawer in her desk and decided to use it for a song dedicated to her ("you see through me"). Of course it's incredibly embarrassing to include on an album made for public consumption, but I thought it a legitimately good recording - a good "performance" in a way, despite the fact it was of slovenly, spiteful me. Michael Gira and JarboeIt could have been anyone. Well, maybe not. Prescient, it's subject was money. Anyway, it was just "material" and everything's fair game. In the end, it was an honest homage to Jarboe, though most people failed to notice that. "Fan Letter" and "Unreal" are seen from the perspective of a crazed fan's inverted worship of Madonna. " I See Them All Lined Up" (later re-recorded for Swans) is a naked hate/revenge diatribe, some of the most vile words I ever wrote. I apologize to all concerned. Thank god it’s not too obvious who the subject of my hatred was…. This album was and still is graciously released through Mr. Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. Photography by the esteemed Mr. Wim van de Hulst. - Michael Gira/Young God Records 2008