Six Pence for the Sauces

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Six Pence for the Sauces
DrakeTungsten SixPence.jpg
EP by
Drake Tungsten
Released1996
Genre Indie rock
Length11:44
Label Peek-A-Boo Records
Producer Britt Daniel
Drake Tungsten chronology
Clocking Out Is For Suckers
(1994)
Six Pence for the Sauces
(1996)
Upon Further Consideration
(1998)

Six Pence for the Sauces was the second and last record released by Drake Tungsten. The five-song EP included two future Spoon tracks, as well as a Pixies cover. 1996 marked the end of Drake Tungsten, as well as the birth of Spoon - the musical group that Britt Daniel has performed with post-Tungsten. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Do the Manta Ray" - 2:12
  2. "Cool It You Need" - 3:52
  3. "Chicago at Night" - 3:17
  4. "He Was Soon To Undergo an Experience for which his Long Training as an Aristocrat, a Gentleman, and an Officer Had Scarcely Prepared Him" - 1:09
  5. "I Could Be Underground" - 1:14

Notes

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References

  1. Raoul Hernandez, "Drake Tungsten and His Boy Skellington." The Austin Chronicle, January 25, 1999.