Analphabetapolothology

Last updated
Analphabetapolothology
Analphabetapolothology.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedJanuary 8, 1998
Genre
Length99:21
Label Jade Tree Records
Cap'n Jazz chronology
Shmap'n Shmazz
(1995)
Analphabetapolothology
(1998)

Analphabetapolothology is an anthology compilation album by Cap'n Jazz released in 1998 [1] on Jade Tree Records. It catalogues almost every song recorded and released by the band during their time together except an early song called "Naive."

The album consists of the band's first and only full length studio album along with songs from EPs, compilation tracks, live recordings, and previously unreleased outtakes and demos.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg link
Pitchfork Media (8.5/10) link
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg link
UpbeetMusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg link

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleOriginally fromLength
1."Little League" Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)3:57
2."Oh Messy Life"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:03
3."Puddle Splashers"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:03
4."Flashpoint: Catheter"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)3:25
5."In the Clear"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)1:57
6."Yes, I Am Talking to You"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:36
7."Basil's Kite"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:36
8."Bluegrassish"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)1:08
9."Planet Shhh"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:59
10."The Sands Have Turned Purple"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:46
11."Precious"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)2:44
12."¡Qué Suerté!"Shmap'n Shmazz (1995)3:05
13."Take On Me" (a-ha cover)Previously unreleased3:03
14."Tokyo"Previously unreleased3:59
15."Ooh Do I Love You"Previously unreleased2:41
16."Hey Ma, Do I Hafta Choke on These"We’ve Lost Beauty (1995)2:09
17."Forget Who We Are" (live)Previously unreleased, from the band's final show2:46
18."Olerud" (live)Previously unreleased, from the band's final show3:28
Disc 2
No.TitleOriginally fromLength
1."We Are Scientists!"Sometimes if you stand further away from something, it does not seem as big. Sometimes you can stand so close to something you can not tell what you are looking at. (1993)3:14
2."Sea Tea"Sometimes if you stand further away from something, it does not seem as big. Sometimes you can stand so close to something you can not tell what you are looking at. (1993)2:32
3."Troubled by Insects"Sometimes if you stand further away from something, it does not seem as big. Sometimes you can stand so close to something you can not tell what you are looking at. (1993)3:58
4."Rocky Rococo"Nothing Dies with Blue Skies (1993)4:22
5."In the Clear"How the Midwest Was Won (1993)2:14
6."Soria"Picking More Daisies (1993)2:17
7."No Use for a Piano Player When You Got a Player Piano"How the Midwest Was Won (1993)1:38
8."Scary Kids Scaring Kids"It’s a Punk Thing, You Wouldn't Understand (1993)4:49
9."Bluegrass"Ghost Dance (1993)4:12
10."Winter Wonderland"A Very Punk Christmas (1993)1:45
11."AOK"Boys 16 to 18 Years... Age of Action (1993)3:02
12."Geheim"Boys 16 to 18 Years... Age of Action (1993)2:41
13."Sergio Valente"Boys 16 to 18 Years... Age of Action (1993)3:29
14."Easy Driver"Boys 16 to 18 Years... Age of Action (1993)3:20
15."Theme to '90210'"Punk TV (1995)2:18
16."Ooh Do I Love You" (acoustic)Ooh Do I Love You (1995)4:05

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Cars</span> American pop-rock band

The Cars were an American rock band formed in Boston in 1976. Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, they consisted of Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes (keyboards), and David Robinson (drums). Ocasek and Orr shared lead vocals, and Ocasek was the band's principal songwriter and leader.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">War (band)</span> American funk band

War is an American funk/rock/soul/Latin band from Long Beach, California, known for several hit songs . Formed in 1969, War is a musical crossover band that fuses elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, and reggae. According to music writer Colin Larkin, their "potent fusion of funk, R&B, rock and Latin styles produced a progressive soul sound", while Martin C. Strong calls them "one of the fiercest progressive soul combos of the '70s". Their album The World Is a Ghetto was Billboard's best-selling album of 1973. The band transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up. War was subject to many line-up changes over the course of its existence, leaving member Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan as the only original member in the current line-up; four other members created a new group called the Lowrider Band.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joan of Arc (band)</span> American indie rock band

Joan of Arc was an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois named after the French saint Joan of Arc. They formed in 1995, following the breakup of Cap'n Jazz.

Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. Like the term "post-punk", the term "post-hardcore" has been applied to a broad constellation of groups. Initially taking inspiration from post-punk and noise rock, post-hardcore began in the 1980s with bands like Hüsker Dü and Minutemen. The genre expanded in the 1980s and 1990s with releases by bands from cities that had established hardcore scenes, such as Fugazi from Washington, D.C. as well as groups such as Big Black, Jawbox, Quicksand, and Shellac that stuck closer to post-hardcore's noise rock roots. Dischord Records became a major nexus of post-hardcore during this period.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cap'n Jazz</span> American emo band

Cap'n Jazz is an American emo band from Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Owls are an indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois. They were initially active from 2001 to 2002 and reunited in 2012. The band is composed of the original lineup of the emo band Cap'n Jazz excluding guitarist Davey von Bohlen, who had left to form The Promise Ring. The lineup has included brothers Tim Kinsella and Mike Kinsella, guitarist Victor Villareal and bassist Sam Zurick. Tim Kinsella and Zurick have also played together in Joan of Arc and Make Believe. Villarreal and Zurick played together in the instrumental rock group Ghosts and Vodka. The band signed to Jade Tree on May 3, 2001, and released their debut on July 31.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">American Football (band)</span> American emo band

American Football is an American indie rock band from Urbana, Illinois, originally active from 1997 until 2000. They reformed in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Kinsella</span> Musical artist

Tim Kinsella is an American musician, author, and film director from Chicago, Illinois.

<i>30° Everywhere</i> 1996 studio album by the Promise Ring

30° Everywhere is the debut studio album by American rock band the Promise Ring. It was released in 1996 on Jade Tree.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike Kinsella</span> American musician (born 1977)

Mike Kinsella is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Having been involved in many Illinois-based bands, he is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the emo band American Football.

<i>Shmapn Shmazz</i> 1995 studio album by Capn Jazz

Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards in the Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On, and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over, more commonly known as Shmap'n Shmazz, is the only full-length studio album by the American emo band Cap'n Jazz. It was released in 1995 on the record label Man With Gun. Cap'n Jazz's lineup at the time of recording comprised Tim Kinsella on lead vocals, Davey von Bohlen and Victor Villarreal on guitar, Sam Zurick on bass guitar, and Mike Kinsella on drums.

<i>A Portable Model Of</i> 1997 studio album by Joan of Arc

A Portable Model of is the first full-length studio album by Joan of Arc, released in June 1997 on Jade Tree Records.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Davey von Bohlen</span> American musician and songwriter

Davey von Bohlen is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for serving as lead vocalist and guitarist of the emo band The Promise Ring and also as guitarist and backing vocalist in short-lived cult band Cap'n Jazz originally from 1993 to 1995.

Punk jazz is a genre of music that combines elements of jazz, especially improvisation, with the instrumentation and performance style of punk rock. The term was first used to describe James Chance and the Contortions' 1979 album Buy. Punk jazz is closely related to free jazz, no wave, and loft jazz, and has since significantly inspired post-hardcore and alternative hip hop.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gauge (band)</span>

Gauge is an American post-hardcore band from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

<i>The Best of John Coltrane</i> 1970 greatest hits album by John Coltrane

The Best of John Coltrane is a 1970 compilation album released by Atlantic Records collecting recordings made by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. The album was released shortly after his death as a part of the "Atlantic Jazz Anthology"—a series of greatest hits compilations for Atlantic jazz artists—and features performances from his brief period recording for Atlantic with new liner notes by jazz journalist Nat Hentoff.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annie's Cousin Fannie</span>

Annie's Cousin Fannie, which is sometimes listed as "Annie's Cousin Fanny", is a 1934 song composed by Glenn Miller and recorded by The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra for Brunswick and Decca Records. The Dorsey Brothers released two versions of the song in 1934 and 1935.

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from one artist, then generally the tracks were not originally intended for release together as a single work, but may be collected together as a greatest hits album or box set. If the recordings are from several artists, there may be a theme, topic, time period, or genre which links the tracks, or they may have been intended for release as a single work—such as a tribute album. When the tracks are by the same recording artist, the album may be referred to as a retrospective album or an anthology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victor Villarreal</span> American musician and songwriter

Victor Villarreal is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his role as guitarist in Cap'n Jazz, Owls and Joan of Arc. His music incorporates elements of classical, indie and emo, and contains surreal guitar solos and instrumentals.

References

  1. Sacher, Andrew. "New exclusive vinyl: Cap'n Jazz's 'Analphabetapolothology' on limited yellow LP". BrooklynVegan. Retrieved 2024-05-12.