Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
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Released | June 20, 1995[1] | |||
Recorded | 1992–1994 | |||
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Length | 71:43 | |||
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Singles from Fast Stories...from Kid Coma | ||||
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Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is the debut studio album by the American rock band Truly, released in 1995 through Capitol Records imprint Revolution.[2][3] The vinyl edition was handled by Sub Pop.[1] Truly later released a 2020 remaster of the album on their Bandcamp page with the track "Aliens on Alcohol" being restored to the track listing.
Concept
[edit]Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is loosely a concept album, about a comatose kid "reliving a past summer of grandeur."[1]
Release and reception
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Drowned in Sound | 9/10[5] |
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Fast Stories...from Kid Coma was released in the United States through Capitol/Revolution on June 20, 1995.[1] The album was released in Europe by Parlophone Records in February 1996,[8] following criticism from Kerrang! over its lack of availability in the UK in November 1995.[7][9]
The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote that the album "mixes hard rock with the atmospheric early '70s psychedelia of Pink Floyd."[10] MTV called it "the great psychedelic hard rock rush of the year."[11] Trouser Press wrote: "Heavy but never bludgeoning, melodic but never cheesy, excessive but never ridiculous, Fast Stories is an extended trip into several of rock’s outer dimensions."[12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a hard-hitting, insistent record that occasionally overreached in its attempts to distance itself from its contemporaries."[6] Loudwire ranked the album at twenty-sixth in their list of "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time".[13] Kerrang! wrote that Fast Stories...from Kid Coma "remains a genuinely vital album, and quite possibly the [grunge] genre’s swan song."[14] Louder Sound named the album in their list of "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums".[15]
Track listing
[edit]- "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
- "Four Girls" - 4:28
- "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
- "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
- "Blue Lights" - 4:12
- "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
- "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
- "Angelhead" - 4:47
- "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
- "Virtually" - 4:48
- "So Strange" - 5:06
- "Strangling" - 5:33
- "Chlorine" - 11:27
12″ vinyl track listing / Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (2020 Remaster) track listing
[edit]- "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
- "Four Girls" - 4:28
- "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
- "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
- "Blue Lights" - 4:12
- "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
- "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
- "Angelhead" - 4:47
- "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
- "Aliens on Alcohol" - 4:51
- "Virtually" - 4:48
- "So Strange" - 5:06
- "Strangling" - 5:33
- "Chlorine" - 11:27
Personnel
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Sprague, David (May 13, 1995). "Capitol Shows Faith In Seattle's Truly". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 19. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 20. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Adams, Gregory (May 14, 2015). "'Singles' Soundtrack to Get Expanded Reissue?". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
- ^ Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-1-62788-379-5.
- ^ Kurutz, Steve. "Fast Stories...from Kid Coma - Truly | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
- ^ Lancaster, Nick (May 5, 2001). "Truly - Fast Stories... From Kid Coma". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. MUZE. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
- ^ a b Dowse, Clare (November 18, 1995). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 572. EMAP. p. 44.
- ^ Anon. (February 3, 1996). "Ad Focus" (PDF). Music Week: 28. Retrieved April 10, 2024 – via worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ Evans, Liz (December 2, 1995). "Something to Believe In". Kerrang!. No. 574. EMAP. pp. 40–41.
- ^ "High-powered Truly plays Shark Club". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 10 June 1995. p. 9D.
- ^ "Truly Are Truly Great". MTV. June 8, 1995. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Aswad, Jem; Robbins, Ira. "Truly". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time". Loudwire. May 24, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
- ^ "10 lesser known grunge albums you should own". Kerrang!. January 5, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Leivers, Dannii (June 15, 2020). "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums". Louder Sound. Retrieved November 6, 2021.