Crash Course in Crash Course...Jump Over Barrels

Mining the vein of The Normal, I give you Crash Course in Science.

Crash Course In Science are a minimal synth post punk band that formed in 1979 in Philadelphia. The band members, Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago, & Michael Zodorozny met while attending art school. Inspired by performance art & the punk scene, they began to write quirky songs about household items, utilizing extremely rudimentary drum machines, toy instruments, & kitchen appliances augment the distorted guitar, drums and synthesized beats.

I posted their first single, Crash Course in Science - Cakes in the Home (1979) here & their 4-song 12" EP Signals from Pier Thirteen (1981) here.

I thougt everyone might like a bit more. After years without hearing from CCiS, in 2005 Mr Sam (Samuel Joël Paquet) appearred featuring the resurrected Crash Course in Science with Flying Around. Since then a slew of singles & two full-lengths (2011 & 2017) have been released.

I'm sticking with the shorts. 

 

    Mr Sam featuting Crash Course in Science - Flying Around 12",
    Black Hole Recordings Black Hole 191-5, 2005.

Side A -
Flying Around (Mojado Vision)

Side B -
Flying Around (Dimitri Andreas remix)
Flying Around (album version) 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Cardboard Lamb 12", Planete Rouge Records PLR07001, 2007.

Side A -
Cardboard Lamb (Transducer mix)
Cardboard Lamb (original Club mix)

Side B -
Cardboard Lamb (Vitalic mix)
Cardboard Lamb (David Carretta mix)

 

 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Flying Turns 12", From Jupiter Recordings jup05, 2009.

Side A -
Flying Turns (Terence Fixmer remix)
Flying Turns (original mix)

Side B -
Flying Turns (Danton Eeprom remix)
Flying Tirns (CCiS remix)

 

 

 

 

 

Crash Course in Science - Jump Over Barrels 12", Dark Entries DE 102, 2016.

Side A -
Jump Over Barrels
Jump Over Barrels (1981 demo)

Side B -
Jump Over Barrels (Charles Manier remix)
Jump Over Barrels (early rehearsal version)

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I said the short ones, but when I was previewing these with a friend of mine (a Crash Course in Science fan), he said it was good but his favorite has always been 2011s Near Marineland. One of my all-time faves of their, "Jump Over Barrels (remix)" is on this disc. So as per his suggestion, here goes. 

 

Crash Course in Science - Near Marineland, Schematic SCH 085, 2011.

Near Marineland    
Second Glance    
It Cost's to Be Austere    
No More Hollow Doors    
Force the Habit    
Someone Reads    
Jump Over Barrels    
Pompeii Spared    
Near Marineland (remix)    
Second Glance (remix)
Jump Over Barrels (remix)

Enjoy,
NØ

Unknown Cases of Leftovers

As this Pickwick Records presents: The Very Best(?) of Neu Wave series grinds to a halt (to never hear New Order, OMD, Flock o' Seagulls & their ilk evermore - so glad I was a punker, not a waver when this mess was danced around - Simple Minds actually weren’t so bad), I have a doggie bag of leftovers that I’ll dump here. Good diggin’...good eatin’.

Appetizer: w/ Blaine L. Reininger; Luc Van Acker; & Virginia Astley...

Anna Domino - East & West, Les Disques Du Crépuscule ‎– TWI 187, 1984.

all decryption codes in comments

Side One -
With the Day Comes the Dawn
Land of My Dreams
Review

Side Two -
Everyday, I Don't
Trust, in Love



Soup
 

The Cassandra Complex - Grenade cassette, Rouska CXUS 001, 1986.

Side C -
March 86
Wonderworld
Presents (Come of Age)
Pickup
Power

Side X -
Report from the Back
Prairie Bitch
Motherad



Salad

The Unknown Cases - Cuba, Day-Glo DGCD 42, 1995.

The Traveller
Stop the Madness
Masimba Bele
Mountains
(I'm an) Unknown Case
Memowalk
If You Want Me to Stay
Nenem Auryn
T,M.Y.S.
She Knows It
Bogota Boogie (Dub) [written by Don Van Vliedt]
Travel to the Center of Paradise
Monkey Chant
Dal Martino



Main Course

Fra Lippo Lippi - In Silence, Uniton Records UNITON 003, 1981.

Side 1 -
Out of the Ruins
A Moment like This
In Silence
Recession

Side 2 -
The Inside Veil
I Know
Quiet
Lost



Dessert

Crash Course in Science - Cakes in the Home 7", GO GO Records GO GO 004, 1979.

Side A -
Cakes in the Home

Side B -
Kitchen Motors
Mechanical Breakdown

Th-th-aaattss all,
Folks

C is the Vitamin

Various - New Wave Club Class-X3, Antler-Subway AS 5070CD, 1992.

all decryption codes in comments

Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
Flying Turns - Crash Course in Science
Are Friends Electric? - Gary Numan
Gioconda Smile - Poesie Noire
The Model - Kraftwerk
What We All Want - Gang of Four
Je Veux ton Amour - Section 25
Oh La La La - TC Matic
Walls of Jericho - Virgin Prunes
Shake the Mind - C Cat Trance
Rhythm - Anna Domino
Back to Nature - Fad Gadget
Magnificent Seven - The Clash
Where’s Captain Kirk? - Spizzenergi

Enjoy,
NØ

bonus blast...

Crash Course in Science - Signals from Pier Thirteen, Press Records P 2001, 1981.

Side A -
Cardboard Lamb
Crashing Song

Side B -
Flying Turns
Factory Forehead

C Cat Trance - Screaming (to be with you) 12" EP, Ink Records INK 1223, 1986.

Side One -
Screaming (to be with you)[Volta Rouge mix]

Side Two -
Let Me Sleep
Dangling on a String

Use with Care,
NØ