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Track List
01) Free Form Freak-Out #1
02) Hurricane Fighter Plane
03) Free Form Freak-Out #2
04) Transparent Radiation
05) Free Form Freak-Out #3
06) War Sucks
07) Free Form Freak-Out #4
08) Pink Stainless Tail
09) Free Form Freak-Out #5
10) Parable of the Arable Land
11) Free Form Freak-Out #6
12) Former Reflections, Enduring Doubt
13) Nickle Niceness (demo of 'Green of My Pants'
14) Vile, Vile Grass (demo of 'War Sucks')
15) Transparent Radiation (demo)
16) Pink Stainless Tail (alternate version)
17) Hurricane Fighter Plane (alternate stereo mi
18) Former Reflections, Enduring Doubt (Altermat
01) Free Form Freak-Out #1
02) Hurricane Fighter Plane
03) Free Form Freak-Out #2
04) Transparent Radiation
05) Free Form Freak-Out #3
06) War Sucks
07) Free Form Freak-Out #4
08) Pink Stainless Tail
09) Free Form Freak-Out #5
10) Parable of the Arable Land
11) Free Form Freak-Out #6
12) Former Reflections, Enduring Doubt
13) Nickle Niceness (demo of 'Green of My Pants'
14) Vile, Vile Grass (demo of 'War Sucks')
15) Transparent Radiation (demo)
16) Pink Stainless Tail (alternate version)
17) Hurricane Fighter Plane (alternate stereo mi
18) Former Reflections, Enduring Doubt (Altermat
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2011
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The Parable of Arable Land is the first studio album by the Red Crayola (later known as Red Krayola). The album was considered psychedelic music when it was introduced, but later assessments describe it as a forerunner to avant/noise rock. With this album as introduction, Ritchie Unterberger assessed the band as a precursor to industrial rock. The album features free improvised pieces involving industrial power tools and a revving motorcycle dubbed "Free Form Freak-Out" played by a group of over 50 people known as "the Familiar Ugly" as well as notable instrumental cameos by label mate and 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson.
The Familiar Ugly
The Familiar Ugly was a group of 50 people who joined the Red Crayola on stage with music that was made on anything from industrial power tools to a revving motorcycle. They perform on the "Free Form Freak-Out" tracks that are present between each song on the album. Rick Barthelme later reflected. "At heart we were as elitist as could be, but these folks came to our shows and some we knew and most we did not know, but whenever we played, there they were, ready to mount the stage and screech until the last plug was pulled, and there we were, ready to invite them – the Familiar Ugly, we dubbed ’em."
After playing as a five-piece consisting of all three original members plus Bonnie Emerson and Danny Schacht, the group split back to the original trio and instead called every added member a part of the Familiar Ugly. "Free Form Freak-Out" was a term coined by record producer Lelan Rogers who proposed the idea of having the album intermingle songs with the Familiar Ugly, fading one into the other as well as having Rick Barthelme take up a tribal drumbeat instead of a standard rock beat for "War Sucks".
Mayo Thompson details the formation of the Familiar Ugly and the origin of "Free Form Freak-Out" in an interview conducted on December 26, 2011 "Conversation with Mayo Thompson: Part One": "It was an organization that accompanied, or enveloped, or just happened while we played. It was part of the phenomenon then. They were undirected. Open-numbered; any number above one. If you had the Red Crayola plus one person on stage, that person was the Familiar Ugly. If there were five, or fifty, up to an indefinitely large number. People liked it, liked the 'noise' we made."Free form means this ain't never gonna happen again. We're about to have an experience that will not be ever again. I'm not making any claims about form. It's an oxymoron at best. The guy was looking for an advertising slogan. That was his form; that was his description of what we did. I just clung onto it because I'm a nominalist; So I'm just going with what we're calling it historically."
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The Parable of Arable Land is the first studio album by the Red Crayola (later known as Red Krayola). The album was considered psychedelic music when it was introduced, but later assessments describe it as a forerunner to avant/noise rock. With this album as introduction, Ritchie Unterberger assessed the band as a precursor to industrial rock. The album features free improvised pieces involving industrial power tools and a revving motorcycle dubbed "Free Form Freak-Out" played by a group of over 50 people known as "the Familiar Ugly" as well as notable instrumental cameos by label mate and 13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson.
The Familiar Ugly
The Familiar Ugly was a group of 50 people who joined the Red Crayola on stage with music that was made on anything from industrial power tools to a revving motorcycle. They perform on the "Free Form Freak-Out" tracks that are present between each song on the album. Rick Barthelme later reflected. "At heart we were as elitist as could be, but these folks came to our shows and some we knew and most we did not know, but whenever we played, there they were, ready to mount the stage and screech until the last plug was pulled, and there we were, ready to invite them – the Familiar Ugly, we dubbed ’em."
After playing as a five-piece consisting of all three original members plus Bonnie Emerson and Danny Schacht, the group split back to the original trio and instead called every added member a part of the Familiar Ugly. "Free Form Freak-Out" was a term coined by record producer Lelan Rogers who proposed the idea of having the album intermingle songs with the Familiar Ugly, fading one into the other as well as having Rick Barthelme take up a tribal drumbeat instead of a standard rock beat for "War Sucks".
Mayo Thompson details the formation of the Familiar Ugly and the origin of "Free Form Freak-Out" in an interview conducted on December 26, 2011 "Conversation with Mayo Thompson: Part One": "It was an organization that accompanied, or enveloped, or just happened while we played. It was part of the phenomenon then. They were undirected. Open-numbered; any number above one. If you had the Red Crayola plus one person on stage, that person was the Familiar Ugly. If there were five, or fifty, up to an indefinitely large number. People liked it, liked the 'noise' we made."Free form means this ain't never gonna happen again. We're about to have an experience that will not be ever again. I'm not making any claims about form. It's an oxymoron at best. The guy was looking for an advertising slogan. That was his form; that was his description of what we did. I just clung onto it because I'm a nominalist; So I'm just going with what we're calling it historically."
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