Tuxedomoon
Tuxedomoon is an experimental, post-punk, new wave band from San Francisco, California, United States. The band formed in the late 1970s at the beginning of the punk rock movement. Pulling influence from punk and electronic music, the group, originally consisting of Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger, used electronic violins, guitars, screaming vocals and synthesizers to develop a unique "cabaret no-wave" sound. Bassist Peter Principle joined the band and in 1979 they released the single "No Tears", which remains a post-punk cult classic. That year they signed to Ralph Records and released their first album, Half-Mute. Eventually Tuxedomoon relocated to Europe. The band separated in the early 1990s, only to reunite later that decade. They have remained together since releasing the album Cabin in the Sky in 2004.
History
In 1977, Tuxedomoon formed out of Angels of Light, an artist collective and commune, a group in which Steve Brown was involved. He met Blaine L. Reininger in an electronic music class at San Francisco City College. Brown worked with Tommy Tadlock, of the Angels of Light, to create the final project of the class. Tadlock would go on to be Tuxedomoon's manager. Reininger and Brown started playing music together at Tadlock's house. Reininger played electronic violin and guitar. Tadlock assisted with the sound and audio. He also created tools for the band, including a "Treatment Mountain", which was a pyramid made of plywood which held all of Reininger's effects pedals.
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ALBUMS
- Pink Narcissus released: 2014
- At Twilight released: 2013
- Ten Years in One Night released: 2010
- 77o7 Tm released: 2007
- Vapour Trails released: 2007
- Bardo Hotel Soundtrack released: 2006
- Cabin in the Sky released: 2004
- Desire / No Tears released: 2003
- No Tears / What Use: Remixes & Originals released: 2000
- Joeboy in Mexico released: 1997
- The Best of Tuxedomoon: Solve Et Coagula released: 1993
- The Ghost Sonata released: 1991
- You released: 1987
- Pinheads on the Move released: 1987
- Suite en sous-sol / Time to Lose released: 1986
- Ship of Fools released: 1986
- Suite en Sous-Sol / Time to Lose - Blind / Short Stories released: 1986
- Half-Mute / Scream With a View released: 1985
- Holy Wars released: 1985
- A Thousand Lives by Picture released: 1983
- Suite en sous-sol released: 1982
- Divine released: 1982
- Desire released: 1981
- Half-Mute released: 1980
77o7 Tm
Released 2007- Day to Day (demo 78)
- Remember (live 78)
- III (April in Afghanistan) Prototype of Crash 79
- Somnambulist (demo 83)
- Heaven and Hell (demo 82)
- Atlantis Compilation (B-Side 85)
- Up All Night (live 85)
- Lop Lop's People (live 86)
- Devastated (demo 77)
- Brad's Loop (live 97)
- Allemande Bleue (demo 81)
- No Business Like Show Business (live 81)
- Cell Life (live 80)
- Oceanus (live 78)
- Work Coda (live 79)
Bardo Hotel Soundtrack
Released 2006- Hurry Up and Wait (Flying Sequence)
- Effervescing in the Nether Sphere
- Soup Du Jour
- Flying Again
- Triptych
- I'm Real Stupid
- Airport Blues
- Needles Prelude
- Prometheus Bound
- Baron Brown
- Jinx
- Loneliness
- Remote (Pralaya)
- Dream Flight
- More Flying
- Vulcanic, Combustible
- Mr. Comfort
- Another Flight
- Invocation Of
- Carry on Circles
Pinheads on the Move
Released 1987- Pinheads on the Move
- Joeboy the Electric Ghost
- The Stranger
- Jingle 7
- Love/No Hope
- In Heaven
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Fifth Column
- Touched
- Waterfront Seat
- Une Nuit au fond de la frayère
- I Left My Heart in San Francisco
- Everything You Want
- Next to Nothing
- Egypt
- Over His Head
- Martial/This Land
- Straight Line Forward
- Jingle 9
- Pinheads on the Move (Reprise)
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Solve Et Coagula
by: TuxedomoonI was born today
There were strangers there
Cut me off
and left me in a chloroformed cell
I yelled and i yelled
But nobody cared
First day of school
I lost my front teeth
Boys beat me up cause
I wasn't one of them
I fought til i bled
and everyone was scared
Yeah everyone was scared
It isn't my fault
That i'm strange
I wasn't good at kickball
I wasn't good at girls
I used to make a habit of peeing in my pants
Cause i was scared and i could'nt dance
and nobody cared but i learned
Today i'm glad to say
I'm just like to rest
Anonyme is best
Anonyme is best
and life grows stranger every day
Has anybody dared to be more that dead
It isn't my faul
That i'm strange
Mother died today
Or maybe yesterday
I don't know i don't know i don't know
Got to ask my boss to let me go
At the funeral they expected me to cry
Well i did'nt
I don't know
I don't know
Everybody's staring at me now
What's gone to their heads
It isn't my fault
That i'm strange
I'm strange i'm strange i'm strange
I'm the stranger