THE OBVIOUS BEST OF SHEEP - VOLUME 2
Pickwick
Records (by Special Arrangement with Appollo Music Group)
catalog no. 167
Compilization originally issued October 1999
(in tandem with Volume 1)
Side A
1.
DON'T CHANGE THAT BEAT
(music: Sidore/Hesse • lyrics: Edwards/Hesse)
MIKE EDWARDS: Lead Vocal
DANNY HESSE: Bass, Tambourine, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal
PAUL SIDORE: Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocal
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Drum Programming, Backing Vocal
Produced by Chris
Matthews & Danny Hesse
• rebalanced & re-EQ'd from two sets of stereo tracks
Recorded 1982 with 1983 overdubs
• released on the album "OF" (1984)
2.
WHO'S STUPID NOW?
(music: Wilson • lyrics: Perrone)
JOHN WILSON: Guitar, Vocal
ROBB PERRONE: Gargling, Vocal
Produced by John
Wilson & Robb Perrone
• remixed from three tracks
From the album "THE GOAT AND THE PANDA
WHIP UP SOME DITTIES" by Dr. Horrible & Mr. Lardy (1986)
3. THE
KITTY SONG
(music: Hesse/Sidore)
DANNY HESSE & PAUL SIDORE: Guitars
Produced by Chris
Matthews & Danny Hesse
• remixed from three tracks
Originally issued on the Sheep LP "SHEEP FOR SALE" (1986)
4. I
LIKE POT
(music: Matthews • lyrics: Edwards/Matthews/Sidore)
MIKE EDWARDS: Drums, Vocal
PAUL SIDORE: Lead Guitar, Vocal
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Acoustic Guitar, Vocal
STEVE SIDORE: Bass
Produced by Chris
Matthews • re-EQ'd from stereo master
From the album "JOHNSON VALLEY WEEKEND" (1983)
5.
LISTEN, OR DON'T LISTEN
(music: Sidore • lyrics: Perrone//Daniels/Matthews/Edwards/Wilson/Burpo)
MIKE EDWARDS: Lead Vocal
STEVE WIRTH: Lead Guitar, Chorale Vocal
JOHN WILSON: Chorale Vocal
ROBB PERRONE: Chorale Vocal, Micro-Moog Synthesizer Solo #1
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Drums, Piano, Chorale Vocal, Synth Solo #2
DANNY HESSE: Bass
PAUL SIDORE: Rhythm Guitar
Spoken intro by Ken
Garkow
Produced by Chris Matthews • remixed from four tracks
From the album "SHEEP FOR SALE" (1986)
6. SIT
UP AND LISTEN
(music: Hesse • lyrics: Matthews)
STEVE WIRTH, MIKE EDWARDS
& JOHN WILSON: Lead Vocals, Crowd
Noise
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Bass, Backing Vocals, Crowd Noise
DANNY HESSE: Guitar, Crowd Noise
PAUL SIDORE: Banjo, Crowd Noise
KEN GARKOW, ROBB PERRONE, CHERYL PERRONE,
JEANNE WHALEN, STEPHEN BURPO, BRIAN JAMES,
MARK SCHWARTZ & ELAN VINUS: Additional Crowd Noise
Produced by Chris
Matthews • remixed from five synched tracks
Recorded 1990 • From the album "PART THREE" (1991)
Side B
7. DO
YOU MEAN FISH?
(music: Perrone/Wilson/Matthews • lyrics:
Perrone)
ROBB PERRONE: Lead Vocal, Chorus Harmony,
Rhythm Guitar #1, Bass
JOHN WILSON: Rhythm Guitar #2
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Drums, Rhythm Guitar #3, Chorus Harmony
DANNY HESSE: Chorus Harmony
STEVE WIRTH: Lead Guitar
Produced by Chris
Matthews, Danny Hesse & Robb Perrone
• remixed from six synched tracks
Recorded 1986 with one line overdubbed in 1990
• Originally issued on the album "SHEEP FOR SALE" (1986)
8.
EMPRESS OF WYOMING
(music: Sidore/Hesse/Matthews • lyrics:
Edwards/Sidore/Mitchell)
MIKE EDWARDS: Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal
JEFF MITCHELL: Clarinet, Recorder, 'Body Politic' Vocal
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Drums
PAUL SIDORE: Bass
DANNY HESSE: Guitar
Spoken intro by Benny
Daniels
• Produced by Chris Matthews, Danny Hesse, Paul Sidore,
Mike Edwards & Jeff Mitchell • remixed from four tracks
Taken from the album "WIDE OPEN SPACES"
by Wide Open Spaces (1992)
9. CLAP
THE RHYTHMS
(music: Sidore • lyrics: Garkow/Sidore)
KEN
GARKOW: Lead Vocal
PAUL SIDORE: Guitar, Piano, Harmony Vocal
JEREMY ANGIER: Bass
Produced by Paul
Sidore • remixed from four tracks
Recorded 1985 • Released on Paul's album "MANGROVE & SNEAD DO
RUFUS SPAULDING" (1990)
10.
COORY CAANS CAANS CAANS CANS CARRREEN (THE WHIFFLE BALL SONG)
(music & lyrics: Sidore/Edwards/Matthews)
MIKE EDWARDS: Drums, Christmas Candy Shaker, Vocal
PAUL SIDORE: Lead Guitar, Bass, Vocal
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Acoustic Guitar, Vocal
TRIPPI RUDD & STEVE SIDORE: Blackground Vocals
Spoken intro by Steve
Wirth
Produced by Chris Matthews • re-EQ'd from stereo master
From the album "OF" (1984)
11. A
DATE WITH DESTINY
(music: Hesse/Matthews • lyrics: Hesse/Matthews/Wilson/Edwards/Wirth)
MIKE EDWARDS: Lead Vocal #1
JOHN WILSON: Lead Vocal #2, Rhythm Guitar #1
STEVE WIRTH: Lead Vocal #3, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal
DANNY HESSE: Rhythm Guitar #2, Backing Vocal
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Rhythm Guitar #3, Drums, Backing Vocal
ROBB PERRONE: Bass
Spoken intro by John
Wilson
Produced by Chris Matthews & Danny Hesse
• remixed from six synched tracks
Recorded 1987 thru 1989
• Issued on the album "PART THREE" (1991)
12.
MORTUARY MAN
(Conclusion & Epilogue)
(music & lyrics: Perrone • funeral music intro
composed by Brahms)
ROBB PERRONE: Lead Vocal, Bass
DANNY HESSE: Funeral Director, Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal,
Outro Narrator #1
STEVE WIRTH: Screaming & Crying, Backing Vocal,
Outro Narrator #2
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Backing Vocal
JOHN WILSON: Tremelo Rhythm Guitar
Produced by Chris
Matthews & Robb Perrone
• remixed from four tracks
Excerpted from "THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF MORTUARY MAN" by
The Mad Morticians (1986)
The songs chosen for the two 1999 volumes of the "best" of Sheep are actually from a wide variety of sources, not all of them "Sheep" releases per se (see credits above on each song). Furthermore, there are many fully grand Sheep achievements not represented at all, though the truly "obvious" well-known long-time smash hit early songs all appear here on Volume 2.
Many tracks were remixed from the original 4-track cassette masters (or stereo cassettes for the very early stuff). In some cases I have digitally synched vocal overdubs with the original remixed music backing tracks (which totals six tracks, you see).
Some of the short random dialog lines at the start of some of the songs were added specifically for these compilations, or "compilizations" as Steve Wirth would say, and so from now on we will, too...
The completely unauthorized use of the Pickwick Records logo here was playing off of the overall cheapie look of Volume 1 and the rather short length of each of the compilations (both could actually have fit on one CD). (Pickwick was a "budget" label from the 1970's and earlier that sold unique compilations by major artists for $1.99 at places like Thrifty's in Covina--the catch was that they only licensed an average of 8 songs per LP!) It's a JOKE, ya see?
COMPILED, REMIXED & REMASTERED BY CHRIS MATTHEWS, OCTOBER 1999
COVER PHOTO BY JEANNE WHALEN