Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 04:48:53 -0400
From: Jeff Keibel <redshift@INTERLOG.COM>
Subject: CADD607CD
This'll be a 2 cd set... First cd will be "Throwing Muses" and "Chains
Changed", second will be the 1985 demo (which Kristin is calling the
"Doghouse Demos") and the 5 newly recorded but otherwise "lost
tracks"... Her second solo album, "Strange Angels", out in early '98
will have a companion tour where Kristin will preview songs from the
Appalachian folk song record, which will probably be released in Autumn
'98. A busy Kristin year desite the non-Muse disposition.
JEFF KEIBEL
SCARBOROUGH, ONTARIO
CANADA
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 00:16:22 -0400
From: Jeff Keibel <redshift@INTERLOG.COM>
Subject: Throwing Muses/Kristin Hersh
>From http://www.throwingmusic.com
The 2cd of the debut TM album reissue will include the original cover,
but it'll be tweaked for the new release...All the original art will be
included (for TM, Chains and the cassette, for the record)...
I think the discs will be pretty close to their 72 minute capacity (as I
calculate on the fly), plus we've got to leave *something* for future
releases, no?
Videos are a mess...most are owned by Warner Bros...we can't release
what doesn't belong to us...as for WB releasing a video collection,
you'd better get a petition going...it's your only hope.
*Scheduling* is why it takes so long to get it out...Record companies
have to stagger their releases to insure their ability to focus on a
record and to assure interest in the marketplace...The public needs a
little breathing time too...We can't just throw everything out there at
once and still give everything it's proper due...First KH solo, then the
2cd, then who knows...(Lakuna? the Appalachian record? Live TM?)...
BillyO (TM manager guru and Mr. K. Hersh)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:08:09 EDT
From: Spiked hydrogen talent <aleppo@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: in a doghouse
the word from billy o (kristin hersh's manager and husband)
is that 'in a doghouse' will be released aug 24/25 and will be a
specially-priced double cd including remastered versions of the first
album, chains changed, their self-released 1985 demo, and (if i remember
correctly) some extra tracks...
both the 4ad and ryko versions will also supposedly have a cd-rom
enhanced video included for the loved track 'fish'.
i cant _wait_ to get this:)
-=robn
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:04:49 EDT
From: Spiked hydrogen talent <aleppo@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: more doghouse info
Following is exerpted text from Ryko's info sheet on Throwing Muses "In a
Doghouse"...
THROWING MUSES
In A Doghouse
Comprised entirely of material which has never been commercially
available in the U.S.A., this specially-priced double CD release
collects Throwing Muses' self-titled 1986 debut album, 1987's Chains
Changed EP, the band's first self-released demo ("The Doghouse
Cassette"), and five recordings of some of co-founder Kristin Hersh's
earliest songs which were cut by the final Muses lineup in August 1996.
In addition, the second disc features Throwing Muses' award-winning
music video, "Fish" as an enhanced program.
An exhaustive compendium of the band's first phase (many fans' favorite
period), In A Doghouse represents the body of work that established the
Muses' fervent following. Often cited as influential by both artists
and critics alike, this release will reaffirm the band's pivotal and
groundbreaking role in what has become "alternative rock."
"Throwing Muses pioneered a dense, dreamy, guitar-based sound long
before 'alternative' was a musical term." - The Rolling Stone
Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
"The early work of Throwing Muses bears no resemblance to any other
group or artist in recent memory" - The Trouser Press Record Guide
Throwing Muses have been: Kristin Hersh, Tanya Donelly, David Narcizo,
Leslie Langston, and Bernard Georges.
THROWING MUSES
In A Doghouse
Double CD
RCD 10377/78
List Price: $19.98 CD
Release Date: September 15,1998
File Under: Rock
Track List:
DISC ONE
Throwing Muses (the self-titled debut album) (1986)
1. Call Me
2. Green
3. Hate My Way
4. Vicky's Box
5. Rabbits Dying
6. America (She Can't Say No)
7. Fear
8. Stand Up
9. Soul Soldier
10. Delicate Cutters
Chains Changed EP (1987)
11. Finished
12. Reel
13. Snail Head
14. Cry Baby Cry
DISC TWO
"The Doghouse Cassette" (1985)
1. Call Me
2. Sinkhole
3. Green
4. Hate My Way
5. Vicky's Box
6. America (She Can't Say No)
7. Fear
8. Raise The Roses
9. And A She-Wolf After The War
10. Fish
Bonus Tracks (1996)
11. Catch
12. Lizzie Sage
13. Clear And Great
14. Doghouse
15. People
Enhanced Program: "Fish" Music Video
* The material on this release has been long sought-after by fans
and collectors alike.
* Throwing Muses (the self-titled debut) and Chains Changed have
never been available domestically, and have been out-of-print as imports
for a substantial period of time.
* Everything else contained on this double disc release is either
previously unissued or has never been available on CD.
* Disc Two features the band's video for "Fish,"" which won an
American Film Institute award for Best Music Video, as an enhanced
program.
* CD package will feature new artwork, exclusive photos of all
band members, and liner notes from Kristin.
* In A Doghouse is an exhaustive collection of the band's early,
influential, and groundbreaking material.
* Rykodisc website will feature sound clips and additional
information.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 15:03:26 -0400
From: Stephanie A Melikian <fawlty@WORLD.STD.COM>
Subject: Just got In A Doghouse
De-lurking to share my excitement...
Well, i was very pleasantly surprised today to find a nice package from
Rykodisc on my doorstep. I'm listening to Doghouse right now and it's
very nice to hear these songs coming from a cd instead of a copy of a
copy of a beat-up old record. The rerecorded versions of the 1983
songs are good - definitely different from the original recordings -
"People" has become an instrumental, and "Doghouse" is a great song I'd
never heard before. Too short, though!
The "Fish" video is great as well. I had only seen bits of it before,
but i can see why it's award-winning. All those eels squirming around...
The only problem is my computer is too slow to sync the pictures to the
sounds...
I also got a Ryko sampler cd which i have not listened to yet, as well as
that 8x10 promised to the first 200 people... It's a b&w photo of the old
Muses ( with leslie and tanya) and they're grinning goofily.
It's a great double CD, and it makes me very happy to listen to, but after
anticipating this for, what almost a year, I feel kind of sad that there's
probably not going to be any more of Throwing Muses for me to look forward
to...
-steph...
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:52:56 +0200
From: dovey <dovey@WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: Re: Just got In A Doghouse
I don't like this cd much. OK the Doghouse cassette recording is nice to
hear but that aren't new song, except for raise the roses. Mind you I
have and played the self titled album and Chains Changed for years at my
apartment. Then the only song that i never heard before are the bonus
tracks and they are made so badly that you hear noises and no lyrics.
Bummer! Never thought that I as a muses fan ever would say that....
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:14:54 -0700
From: shane <shane@TREX.ORG>
Subject: In A Doghouse
Big cheers to whomever re-mastered the self-titled album and 'Chains
Changed' EP...so clean and clear, I'm hearing stuff I never heard with
the vinyl. I've had the Doghouse Demos for a couple years already, so
other than having it on CD, no big whoop, and the old songs newly
recorded is cool, but I would have rather have had better copies of
tracks from the 1983 WRIU Radio Broadcast (there's no pleasing me is
there?): Big jeers though to the album artwork. What happened to the
"extensive booklet," and the misplacement of "Stand Up" and the numeral
8 is a minor annoyance. Happy to have it all finally though.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:52:26 +0100
From: David Thorpe <djt@ROBOTS.OX.AC.UK>
Subject: NME Review of <<In A Doghouse>>
I find it difficult to believe that the NME have reduced one of my most
treasured albums to a comparison with emerson lake and palmer (apparently
if it weren't played so badly).
THROWING MUSES
In A Doghouse
4AD)
Review by Jim Wirth (spit!)
Rating 6/10
(C) Copyright IPC Magazines, etc.
SELF-DELUSION IS A TERRIBLE THING. "I swear to God we thought we were
a party band," pleads erstwhile Muses chanteuse Kristin Hersh in the
sleevenote. Needless to say, this lovingly packaged two-CD set
comprising the Throwing Muses' first steps on the road to college rock
ubiquity would sit uncomfortably next to the Twiglets and cans of Sven
lager at all but the most psychotic soirees.
Bedsit-confined misanthropes, however, can languish in their fetid
torpor in the knowledge that 'In A Doghouse' contains more than you
could ever want to know about the early Muses. There's their first
self-titled album, the home-produced 'Doghouse Cassette' which
preceded it, the 'Chains Changed' EP, a clutch of unreleased tracks
and an enhanced CD.
Wailing banshee bobbins it might be for much of the time, but there's
a scattershot beauty to it. In the grand uber-fem tradition of The
Slits, The Raincoats and Hole, melodies wander around at unexpected
tangents and tunes speed up and slow down with unerring
frequency. This would be Emerson, Lake And Palmer if it weren't played
so badly.
"It reminds you of blow jobs", mutters the loopy Hersh on 'Vicky's
Box'. Perhaps, but only if you've tried to get one off a family pet.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:08:29 +0100
From: Andrew Norman <andrew@RIVERRUN.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: NME Review of <<In A Doghouse>>
David Thorpe, on 29 Sep 98,:
> I find it difficult to believe that the NME have reduced one of my most
> treasured albums to a comparison with emerson lake and palmer (apparently
> if it weren't played so badly).
I still smile when I remember the utter trashing someone (Barbara
Ellen, possibly) gave to the second Spiritualized album - one LP down
the road and they are everyone's favourite, with no mention of sad
indie boys who never leave their bedrooms in any of the reviews. I
must admit it took me a few months to get the first Muses album, but
once it had clicked it really did click, and "Chains Changed" was one
of those releases that had me in near-panic looking for it on the day
of release, I was so desperate to hear it. I think the early Muses
especially are not easy listening and can be easily written off by
the unappreciative as "quirky", "gloomy" and so on. I haven't paid
serious attention to the NME's reviews since I was a teenager, and
gave up buying it when they dropped the forthcoming releases
information.