Braille Party - Welcome to Maryland LP:
Welcome to Maryland / Who's Patronizing Who / Six / Wo Wo Wo / Visiting Dignitaries / Ice Cube's Chance / Evil / Bulldozer / Gemma / Five // Everyone Loves Denise / Let it Burn / Seven / Free Enterprise For Ya / Eight / Truer Words / Gilligan / Two / Over My Dead Body / Halt! Who Goes There? / Braille Party
black vinyl
Fountain of Youth 011, 1984

Lineup: Matt Riedl - vocals, bass / Lou Gigger - guitars / Gerry Rolfe - drums, vocals

Recording Info: Recorded at Hit and Run Studios, July - September 1984. Engineered by Steve Carr, produced by Derrick Hsu. Additional recorded assistance provided by Alex Schneider.

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Reviews: Definitely produced while under the influence of Husker Du. Sounds a lot like Man Sized Action.

Madhouse - S/T LP:
songs // songs
black vinyl
Fountain of Youth 12, 198?

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Wishes and Water - S/T LP:
Ocean City / Ellie / Perfect Day // Tears / Choice of Words / Oh My, What a Shame
black vinyl
Fountain of Youth 13, 198?

Lineup: Matt Riedl - vocals, guitar, bass / Derrick Hsu - vocals, DX7 / Sue D - Piano

Recording Info: Recorded at Hit and Run April-May, 1985. Engineered by Steve Carr. Produced by Steve Carr and Derrick Hsu.

Notes: I'm not sure entirely why the back cover scan looks so bad.

Reviews: There may be people out there who will enjoy this kind of stuff--I really have no idea. This is so far from what I normally listen to that I'm not sure I'm qualified to judge it. Still, I like to think I can recognize bad, regardless of what disguise it wears, and this is bad. I'm torn as to whether this is the worst Fountain of Youth record or not--there's always Troubled Gardens, but Wishes and Water are really something special. If it came down to a cage match, my money would be Troubled Gardens though, since they have a song called "Domination Dub," whereas the most intimidating title on this record is "Oh My, What A Shame," which just doesn't have the same kinda ring to it. Still, there's no doubt that Wishes and Water would go down fighting. And then write a sad, lonesome acoustipop song about it called "Falling From the Ring" or something similar.

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Crippled Pilgrims - Underwater LP:
Down Here / So Clean / Oblivious and Numb / Sad But True / Calculating // Undone / What You Lost / Pretend Not to Care / the Sense / Not Good
translucent blue vinyl
Fountain of Youth 14, 198?

Lineup: Jay Moglia - vocals, guitar / Scott Wingo - lead guitar / Mitch Parker - bass / Dan Joseph - drums, piano

Recording Info: Recorded at Hit and Run. Produced and mixed by Steve Carr, Derrick Hsu, and the Crippled Pilgrims

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Reviews: This is very pretty, but it doesn't do anything for me. If you dig it, feel free to write yr own review and zip it my way--it may even end up on this page!

9353 - We're Absolutely Sure There Is No God LP:
Spooky Room / Bypartizoa / American Schizo / Bastard // Evil Teen Facility Yard / Who Does What and Why / Born to be Wild / Viva la Sleaze
black vinyl w/printed inner sleeve
Fountain of Youth 15/9353 Records, 1985

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Reviews: FAVE FoY record. GREAT band. GREAT record. REALLY fucked up. INITIAL capitalization.

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