Atlanta Trash Collective
BIOGRAPHY
Wow. The Atlanta Trash Collective album is called Pick of the Litter because there were some 30-ish songs taken to some level, and these were either the ones with the favorite riffs -OR- most diversity in sound, -or- maybe just a bit more advanced; they are all at varied stages of development, but none are what anyone would call complete. The assessment of proximity to finished are in the titles, listen at your own risk.
BAND MEMBERS
Who's in the band? You are, musicians of years past from all over. Right now Protools is an important member, and this year BFD2 which is just astonishing (and buggy). But I wrote it all out in the blog for my first project in 2007, excerpted here:
I credit infinite influences but I would have to say, any project ever touched by the golden hand of Mr. Steve Lilleywhite is like crack to me; I can't get enough; thank you forever Sir. And the Beatles of course.
So after that, we'd have to say Marshall Crenshaw, Elvis Costello, The Church, The Clash, REM, The Jam, The Replacements and U2 (suppose I shouldn't dis my first love, Cheap Trick) will be in there somewhere due to the overwhelming number of spins. Juicy additions would be The Smiths, Railway Children, Riverside (U.S., not Poland) and Catherine Wheel.
Throw in intermittent obsessions with diverse artists like Gary Numan, Jason and the Nashville Scorchers, Steve Roach, Cocteau Twins, Chris Isaac, Juluka, Tom Waits, The English Beat, Bjork, Dead can Dance, Whiskeytown, and Elliot Smith please. But more currently I have been taken by indiepoprocks, (great station on iTunes radio stream) exotica (almost any Les Baxter remix), the Ultralounge series, Lounge King's podcast, then also The Clientele, and I can't stop playing Frou-Frou's "Let Go". OH YEAH, and how can I forget, the greatest sound in the past 6 years, Pernice Brothers. Cue up “The World Won’t End”’s first track, Working Girls. There’s none better.
I played in a fun college cover punk/new wave band – Superficial Things – but since then I have been painfully introverted in my songwriting closet. Mysteriously, I write a riff I love, a lyric I am happy about, then I have a compulsion to go on to another new project without being able to revisit anything for more than about 2 nights in a row. So, In February I hope to do what some thousands of previous fragments of songs I have written and recorded have not, which is write songs which have a start, middle and end; viable to let anyone
YEARS COMPLETED
2009,2010,2011
GENRES
Alternative
Completed Albums
Pick of the Litter - musical sketches(2009)
For my mindset this year, try songs 4-Madman, 3, Went West, and 7-Laughbomb. Just wanted to do different things, and these are more complete and more completely different than others.
What a bunch of CRAP! But fun crap, for me... enough fun to finally say I am sick of never finishing, never putting the submission in the jukebox, so - sorry to you that it's mostly songs with a sortof developed intro and a few other areas of comparatively complete-ish sound. I hope there is somewhere to talk about each song and the RPMers that influenced me for each...
They Call Me Debris - 25 more unsubmitted tiny sketches(2009)
Many other short song sketches I did not have time to collect bounces of in time to send, so this material was not formally submitted in the 2009 challenge, although it was all entirely written and recorded in the same month period as the Pick of the Litter tracks. If it is desired by anyone that I remove these tracks I will immediately, but I think they are fun and sort of show how I work at larger picture and diverse ideas, but have trouble getting closure on details that would allow me to actually FINISH!!!! Try some, they are all really short.
2010 B - One Man's Trash + Another Man's Treasure • (2010)
Double Disks - sketches in various levels of completion, several I like a lot but all vocals are vile and need re-working. These will eventually be split in two disks for beter continuity, if I finish bouncing more sections of the February files there are som e totally acoustic ones even, with alt tunings. The reference to "homage to DBT's" in several titles is of course Drive By Truckers, who were coming here soon after the RPM Challenge was over and I had picked up The Dirty South in January. Not usually my style but I thought I could use a little more balls on some couple of songs so jammed them in at the end. Hell Yeah, ...it's tongue in cheek but I had fun...
2010 A - The Burning Journals(2010)
Inspired by the iPad book substitute platform, and other things about fire and books... The Texas Board of Education, dumbing down, loss in general... but some catchy tunes if you ignore the atrocious first-take lead vocals over wallowing unmixed-out layers of looped chorus takes. Some of these ideas could actually be worked into interesting things, if only I would.
The Burning Journals - (Continuing Updates)(2010)
Refined versions of some original compositions and recordings from RPM 2010. These do have some added lyrics, instruments and dubs; they are not genuine RPM but better derivative versions and upgraded mixes culled and reformatted from the hours of songs created during February 2010.
2011 Album(2011)
No tracks have been uploaded for this album yet.