Joel's Picks Vol. 2 (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label:
Hausu Mountain – HAUSMO 142
Format:
CD, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
Aug 16, 2024
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Rock & Roll, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Post-Punk, Math Rock, Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Funk Metal
1        Joel Reprise > Told Ya - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar    12:40
2        West Of Your State - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar    4:56
3        Same As Before > Beef Pizza - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar    11:04
4        Party In My Chevy - 2019/07/26 - @ Cafe Mustache    4:47
5        Kandy Korn - 2019/10/25 - @ Cafe Mustache
Composed By – Captain Beefheart
7:54
6        Carl Blues > Joel - 2022/02/04 - @ Cole's Bar    13:02
7        Cutie Girls - 2022/02/04 - @ Cole's Bar    4:26
8        Dracula - 2019/06/17 - @ Sleeping Village    4:33
Composed By, Bass, Artwork – Maxwell Allison
Composed By, Drums – Paul Birhanu
Composed By, Guitar – Charlie Olvera
Composed By, Guitar, Recorded By, Compiled By, Mastered By – Doug Kaplan
Recorded By – Erica Gamble, Joel Berk
All songs written by / copyright of BBsitters Club (Allison / Birhanu / Kaplan / Olvera) except Kandy Korn which is originally written by Don Van Vliet and performed by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Kandy Korn appears courtesy of EMI Unart Catalog Inc.

Tracks 1-3 are audience recordings by Doug Kaplan. Track 4 combines audience recordings by Erica Gamble and Doug Kaplan. Track 5 combines audience recordings by Joel Berk and Doug Kaplan. Tracks 6-7 are matrix recordings combining a soundboard feed and audience recordings by Joel Berk and Doug Kaplan. Track 8 is an audience recording by Doug Kaplan.

Compiled and mastered by Doug Kaplan.
Artwork by Max Allison.
Special thanks to Joel.

BBsitters Club are:
Stogna Balogna / Doug Kaplan
Shades Bassman / Max Allison
Corgki Romano / Paul Birhanu
Carl Rude / Charlie Olvera

BBsitters Club is a rock band based in Chicago that features Doug Kaplan and Charlie Olvera on guitar and vocals, Max Allison on bass, and Paul Birhanu on drums. As the label’s de-facto in-haus band, BBsitters Club satisfies Hausu Mountain co-founders Allison and Kaplan’s urge to remain connected to the rock and roll music they grew up loving and playing — far across the spectrum from the experimental electronics featured on the lion’s share of HausMo releases. A solid four years after the one-two-punch releases of BBsitters Club & Party, the band’s 2020 debut studio album, and Joel’s Pick’s Vol. 1, the first volume in a series of audience-recorded live takes from shows around Chicago, we find the BBs reviving the Joel’s Pick’s series with Vol. 2. Charged with the energy of a close-knit group of friends willing to follow along with each other’s most outlandish ideas both in composition and live performance, JPV2 offers us a bewildering yet always tongue-in-cheek palette of ideas cherry-picked and mashed together into amalgams that both embrace “rock traditions” and defy them with a cherubic grin. BBsitters Club’s amorphous compositions land somewhere between the world’s most baked prog band and a jamband that’s never content to lapse into wheel-spinning complacency. On JPV2, BBsitters Club cartwheel between eras and styles of rock music with abandon — a TV stuck flipping channels after your dad falls asleep with one leg on the remote. We encounter the elliptical dueling guitars and autumnal atmospheres of midwest emo / math rock, the gregarious stomp of electrified country rock, blues rock that has melted from ingesting one too many hallucinogens, and fried Devo-style art punk that breaches into the realms of ska before melting into free-form noise rock flecked with the bizarro imitative instrument tones of Kaplan’s MIDI guitar. 

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD, Gatefold Jacket With A Printed CD Pocket
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 8/23/24