Beautiful, Unlike You and I

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Beautiful, Unlike You and I
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EP by SNFU
Released 1993
Recorded 1993
Genre Punk rock
Label Hom Wreckerds Music
Producer SNFU
SNFU chronology
She's Not on the Menu
(1987)
Beautiful, Unlike You and I
(1993)
The Ping Pong EP
(2000)

Beautiful, Unlike You and I is an EP by Vancouver punk rock band SNFU. It was recorded in 1993 while the band was recording demo material for their Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes album. [1] It was released on the Hom Wreckerds Music label.

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Contents

Side A is a re-recording of a song originally featured as a live track on their The Last of the Big Time Suspenders album. Side B is an alternate version of a song featured on Something Green and Leafy This Way Comes.

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The Last of the Big Time Suspenders is a compilation album by the Canadian punk rock band SNFU. The album is composed of live recordings, demos, compilation and EP tracks, and studio outtakes. It was released in 1991, two years after SNFU's first breakup, to satisfy the band's two-album contract with Cargo Records. The group reformed to tour behind the album, leading to a full reunion.

Track listing

  1. "Beautiful, Unlike You and I"
  2. "The Watering Hole"

Musicians

Ken Chinn Canadian musician

Kendall Stephen "Ken" Chinn is a Canadian punk rock lead vocalist and artist. He is best known, under the pseudonym Mr. Chi Pig, as the lead singer of the band SNFU. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Brent Belke is a Canadian guitarist and composer. After playing in the punk and alternative rock bands SNFU and The Wheat Chiefs between 1981 and 1998, Belke began a career composing music for film and television.

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References

  1. Chris Walter. What No One Else Wanted to Say. Vancouver: GFY Press, 2014.