Twisted & Fresh (2002)

or “the best of guys with dicks”, but only drawing from SUBLIMINAL BILE through to the final sessions. i subtitled it “a collection of love songs”.

there are two “cuts” of this cd—mine and gord’s. the idea here was for each band member to put together a different best-of collection, offering the cream of our latter day work as a three-piece. i was fascinated with the idea of three separate views of the same source material, and the contrasts that would emerge between what each of us thought of as our best work and how we chose to sequence it. gord pieced his take together one afternoon while high on shrooms (i provided some suitably demented liner notes…something about standing in the middle of the street naked and screaming “dump truck!”), and i compiled mine a few days later while enjoying the muggy summer weather and waiting for jesse to come over so we could work on SESSIONS. tyson never got around to putting together his cut.

my cut and gord’s are subtly different from one another…mine sticks to mostly shorter tracks, leaning very heavily on STELLAR and the final GWD songs, while gord makes room for things that i passed over like we’re out of tuna and blood at the back. the sequencing is a little different, too; my cut starts right out of the gate with mean it, while gord lets his begin on a silly note with an interlude, which is now called an intro. admittedly, when i compiled my cut i was thinking of record companies, and it’s anyone’s guess what they thought if they bothered to listen to the cds when they got them. i got one response out of about eighty labels i sent cds to, and it was…interesting. but by then the band no longer existed, so it didn’t really make a difference.

MY CUT:

mean it
i feel great
something about lies
what else?
redound
beautiful high
voyeur
absolutely perfect
barbiturates
electricity
beauty breeds confusion
there is no us
it’s only a game
nicotine & beer
red eyeshadow

GORD’S CUT:

an intro
i feel great
mean it
redound
beautiful high
voyeur
what else?
we’re out of tuna
electricity
absolutely perfect
blood at the back
barbiturates
beauty breeds confusion
there is no us

TYSON’S CUT:

this will forever remain a mystery, but i imagine it would have been quite similar to mine.