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Extreme Spirituals

Dawn of the Cycads:
The complete
Ace of Heart's
Recordings
(1983 — 1987)

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T R A C K S:
I'm A Rollin' | Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray | A Little More Faith In Jesus | Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child | Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | Listen To The Angels Shoutin' | Wayfaring Stranger | Great Day | Nobody Knows The Trouble I See | Oh Freedom | Amen


Extreme Spirituals
Extreme Spirituals
(2006)

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T R A C K S:
I'm A Rollin' | Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray | A Little More Faith In Jesus | Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child | Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | Listen To The Angels Shoutin' | Wayfaring Stranger | Great Day | Nobody Knows The Trouble I See | Oh Freedom | Amen
1001 Real Apes
1001 Real Apes
(2006)

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T R A C K S:
1001 Real Apes Overture | Dad's Tray | Cowboy Story | Phantom of Crestwood | Minerals and Moon | Freaky Women | Nine Colors | Six Bits of Advice | 36 Meatballs | Gravity/Massachusetts/Newton | Firecrackers | Dinosaurs | All About Snakes | A-E-I-O-U (Guitars, Pt. 1) | Daphne's New York City | Swimming | Chicago | No Firebugs and a Prayer | Theo | I Ain't Coe | Bruno | How Records Are Made | Plink Plink Plink (Guitars, Pt. 2) | Rosie | Time Marches On | Cautionary Tale | I Like Beer | They Made a Movie out of This

2001 Live Birds
2001 Live Birds
(2004)

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T R A C K S:
Ptocatta | Dancing on A'A | Theme from 'Rocky & Bullwinkle' / Theme from 'The Simpsons' | Lost in the B-Zone | The Insidious Revenge of Ultima Thule | One Hundred Cycles | A Band of Deborahs (Not Debbies) | Ptinct | Faultline | Birdgam | Beat of the Mesozoic Part 1
The Iridium Controversy
The Iridium Controversy
(2003)

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T R A C K S:
Primoridal Sludge | The Iridium Controversy: Before | The Iridium Controversy: After | Make The Camera Dance | This Way Out | Lost In The B-Zone | Tectonic Melange | Sherpas On Parade | 100 Years Of Excellence | Race Point | Centrifuge | The Best Of The Mesozoic (Part 1) |

 Petrophonics
Petrophonics
(2000)

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T R A C K S:
Petrophonics | Ptoccata II | One Hundred Cycles | Nevergreen | Study Of Unintended Consequences | Birdhead | Allswell That Endswell In Roswell | Music Inspired By 1001 Real Apes: Time Marches On Theme | Music Inspired By 1001 Real Apes: Dinosaurs Theme | Music Inspired By 1001 Real Apes: Gravity Theme | Music Inspired By 1001 Real Apes: Quincy Sore Throat Theme | The Insidious Revenge Of Ultima Thule: Part One | The Insidious Revenge Of Ultima Thule: Part Two | The Insidious Revenge Of Ultima Thule: Part Three

Dancing On A'A
Dancing on A'A
(1995)

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T R A C K S:
A Band Of Deborahs (Not Debbies) | Dancing On A'A | Ptinct | Readymen | Birdgam | Electric Altamira | Swamp | Peter Gunn | Ray | Sirius The Scorching | The Pearly Eyed March

The Fossil Record
The Fossil Record
(1993)

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T R A C K S:
Sound Valentine | Pulse Piece | The Transformation Of Oz | Tyronglaea | Chen | The Arousing | Sombre Reptiles | Laramide Revolution | Out Of Limits | Biff The Brontosaurus | Carbon 14 | Modern Warfare | March | Lqabblil Insanya | Slo-Boy | To A Random

Pyroclastics
Pyroclastics
(1992)

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T R A C K S:
Shortwave Longride | Pleasure Island | I'm A Pterodactyl | Why Not Circulate | Sled | The Simpsons | Tyronglaea II | Papercutstone | Sombre Reptiles | Nothing But Trouble | Tomorrow Never Came | Our Prayer

Faultline
Faultline
(1989)

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T R A C K S:
The True Wheelbase | They Walk Among Us | Coco Boudakian | I Don't Need No Crystal Ball | Chariots Of Fire | Magic Fingers (25 Cents) | Faultline | On The Street Where You Live | Maybe I Will | There Is No One | Slo-Boy | Pteropold | Just Say Yes
Sonic Geology
Sonic Geology
(1988)

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T R A C K S:
Shiny Golden Snakes | Ptoccata | Waterwheel | Pulse Piece | Rite of Spring [Excerpts] | Orange Ocean | The Tyger | Scenes From A ... | Beat of the Mesozoic, Pt. 1 | International Tours | Drift | Final Motif | Theme From Rocky and Bullwinkle | The Fundamental | Sound Valentine | The Common Sparrow | Lost in the B-Zone | Triassic, Jurassic, Creataceous

L P s
Beat Of The Mesozoic  
Magnetic Flip  
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic 12" EP  
C o m p i l a t i o n s
Got Prog?
by Various Artists (Audio CD)
Progressive Rock Sampler Number One From Music Street Journal featuring "Sherpas On Parade" by Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
 
Unsettled Scores
(CD, 1995) Cuneiform Rune 75/76
Cuneiform artists recording material by other Cuneiform artists.
  • Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic perform A Moral Dilema For Our Time by C.W. Vrtacek
  • The True Wheelbase/Coco Boudakian (medley) performed by Forever Einstein
  • They Walk Among Us performed by Richard Pinhas / John Livengood
Unsettled Scores
They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway
(CD, 1993)
Live music from the studios of WFMU, East Orange, NJ
Live version of Why Not Circulate
They Came, They Played, They Blocked The Driveway
Place of General Happiness: Lyrics By Ernest Noyes Brookings, Volume II
(CD/cassette, 1991) ESD 80522, includes Interference Distraction, a poem by Duplex Nursing Home resident Brookings. Compiled by David Greenberger for the Duplex Planet. Music by Erik Lindgren. Vocals by Willie Loco Alexander. Until Extreme Spirituals, this was the only BOTM piece with a vocalist! Ordering info here
 
Aventures In Music
(CD, 1990) AIM 003, includes The True Wheelbase
 
Steal This Disc
(CD, 1988) Rykodisc 00076, includes Please Welcome and Theme From Rocky And Bullwinkle
 
Soundtracks
(vinyl, 1987) Arf Arf 020, includes film score from To A Random
 
Arf! Arf! Contemporary Music Sampler, Volume II
(vinyl, 1983) Arf Arf 009, includes Sombre Reptiles
 
 
A Wicked Good Time, Volume I
(vinyl, 1981) Modern Method 268, includes Pulse Piece (1980 version)
 
R e l a t e d  R e l e a s e s
Between Meals (12" EP - Iridescence O-9) 1985 featuring members of Birdsongs with Moe Tucker, Jad Fair, and David Greenberger  
Jad Fair-Monarchs (LP - Iridescence G-2) 1985 includes Stary Eyes, Guess Who, and Hang Seven featuring members of Birdsongs  
Oil On Linen - Erik Lindgren (CD - Arf Arf-036) includes Levels of Insanity I featuring members of Birdsongs Erik Lindgren - Oil On Linen
Stock Footage/Music From The Films of Roger Corman (CD - Worrybird WOE 23) 1994 includes Space Negros Booze Thang Meets The Wired Chain Gals featuring members of Birdsongs  
V i d e o s
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous / Sound Valentine (Mark Diamond and Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic, 1983)
Transformation Of Oz
Produced by Hobbyhorse
Transformation Of Oz
Lost In The B-Zone (Michael Burlingame, 1986) Featured on MTV
Lost In The B-Zone
Birdgam - produced at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, N.Y. 1995
Directed by Andrew Neumann 
Birdgam
Ptinct
Electric Altamira
Directed by Henry Ferrini
Electric Altamira
Peter Gunn
Directed by Marc Leidy
Peter Gunn
F i l m  S c o r e s
To A Random
(Michael Burlingame, 1986) The award-winning film supported by the NEA, AFI, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, Artists Foundation, and Chicago Film Festival
 
Wrong Guys
(The Wooster Group, 1988) Film score project funded by the Mass. Council on the Arts and Humanities featuring Willem Dafoe
 
5 Dreams *
(Luke Jaeger, 1998)
*SEE IT NOW!
 
O t h e r  C r e d i t s
WGBH - Nova "Frontiers of Plastic Surgery", 1985  
Dinosaur Dance Company 30-second television spot, 1985  
The City of New York "Don't Crack" 30-second television spot produced by Clarke Goward Fitts, 1987, featuring Lou Reed  
Auto Engineering - "The Rides of Spring" radio and television campaign produced by the Clarendon Group, 1987  
Boston Conservatory of Music - And so it goes score for 9 1/2 minute dance piece by Deb Ascher, 1987  
Boston Globe Film Festival  
The Wooster Group - Film score for project funded by The Mass Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1988  
O t h e r  B a n d s  a n d  P r o j e c t s
Frankenstein Consort (Erik) Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (Ken) Mission of Burma (Roger/Martin)
Binary System (Roger) No Man (Roger) Alloy Orchestra (Roger)
Sproton Layer (Roger's 1970 psych band) Moving Parts (Roger/Erik) Space Negros (Erik)
Family Fun (Erik) TNT (Erik's 1970-'76 band) Rova Saxophone Quartet (Steve Adams--interim member circa Faultline era)
Skin (Ken Field's '80 funk/pop band) Ken Field's solo CDs Michael Bierylo's two solo LPs from the mid '80s

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