Early Recordings (Quasi album)

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Early Recordings
Quasi album cover Early Recordings.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 29, 1996
Length54:16
Label Key Op, Touch and Go
Quasi chronology
self-released cassette
(1993)
Early Recordings
(1996)
R&B Transmogrification
(1997)

Early Recordings is a compilation album by the American indie band Quasi. It was released on March 29, 1996, on Key Op Records, and re-released on August 21, 2001 on Touch and Go Records. It includes songs previously released on the band's self-titled, self-released cassette, as well as previously unreleased recordings.

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Track listing

All tracks by Sam Coomes except where noted.

  1. "Two Hounds" – 2:41
  2. "Superficial" – 3:27
  3. "Birds Are Bells" (Janet Weiss) – 1:56
  4. "Lump of Coal" (Coomes, Weiss) – 3:08
  5. "Time Flies By" (Coomes, Weiss) – 2:26
  6. "Gaping Holes" – 3:08
  7. "Hui Neng" – 2:28
  8. "Homunculus" – 3:50
  9. "Monkey, Mirror" (Coomes, Weiss) – 3:52
  10. "Hairs" (Coomes, Weiss) – 1:04
  11. "The Egg" – 3:37
  12. "Rumpy" – 2:11
  13. "Digital Delay" (Weiss) – 2:09
  14. "Mammon" – 2:55
  15. "Reverse Coagulation" – 0:54
  16. "Op. 7" (Coomes, Weiss) – 1:29
  17. "Pay Me Now, or Pay Me Later" – 3:45
  18. "Unspeakable Thing" (Weiss) – 4:07
  19. "Deep Sleep" – 5:08

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