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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Play Myself Some Music (1986)
Description: "Unsung Hero only touches on the injustice of obscurity for this wry, heartfelt artist whose limber genius, vitality and productivity make him a far more profound cultural asset than any number of next-big-things with maybe 2 good albums in 'em. Why no major label has ever signed him is one of the modern era's mysteries." Trouser Press, 1997
Video by Nuno Monteiro, 2007. Edited from Uncle Floyd Show 1987, additional footage filmed by O-Roy studio, Montclair NJ 6-14-94, and Bob Moore's Florida vacation home movies summer 1957.
Unsung Music Genius and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "Play Myself Some Music" from All Well and Good (1986). Get it Straight from the Man at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/allwell.html
it's so quiet in here, hear the pin drop
oh what can i do?
there's nothin' to do, just plop down in a chair
listen to some tunes
play myself some music
listen to side 2 first
play myself some music
pretend i did not lose you
i been so sad all day, watching the clock
oh what could i do?
my life is a bore, just lay down in the floor
listen to some songs
play myself some music
listen to side 3 first
play myself some music
pretend i did not lose you
a ballad makes me think of you
a rocker makes me think of us
but silence makes me cry
i got all these records, but it's such a chore
to choose one
but i must play the game, get settled in the phones
listen to LPs
play myself some music
listen to side 4 first
play myself some music
pretend i did not lose you
play myself some music
listen to side 1 first
drink myself some whiskey
pretend i did not lose you.
[This alltime #1 voted fan favourite also appears on numerous other classic RSM releases, such as "Teenage Spectacular" ('87), "Contact Risk" ('93) and "The Future Is Worse Than The Past" ('99).]
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Pop Music and The Money Programe (1974)
Description: "That this immensely-talented guy has never had a top-40 hit in the 3 decades he's played with even one of his danceable, singable, air-guitarable or just plain weird tunes proves beyond a shadow of a doubt just how screwed up the music industry really was and still is." - NY MUSIC Press 1994
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "Pop Music" from Next (1974). Get it Straight from the Man at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/next.html
"It's What You Do (It's Not What You Are)" from Contact Risk compilation. Get it at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/contact.html
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filmed N.J. 1988 with Jim Price (WFMU)
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - I Love All The Girls (1974)
Description: DIY Sgt Pepper, R. Stevie Moore: I Love All the Girls (1974)
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"I Love All the Girls" is from Next (1974)
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Another Day Slips Away (2006)
Description: Veteran Progressive Popster and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "Another Day Slips Away" (lyrics by J. Roger Ferguson) from Tell Laura I Love Herbert (2006). Get it Straight from the Man at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/telllaura.html
"The American record industry's failure to recognize and promote the unique gifts of this giant talent is a case of criminal neglect." - Ira Robbins
"Those who venture into the world of R. Stevie Moore will find a documentary record of music that is, er, Moore than they expected." - Don Thomason
outdoors filmed by Krys O.
indoors filmed by -max-
(N.J. Sept 2006)
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Part of the Problem (1980)
Description: "For a rhythm machine he's got a box from Panasonic with an on/off switch, 3 pushbuttons and a price tag of $10. His vocal mike is a Sony cardioid he's owned for 15 years. His headphones are this set of humongous metallic blue cans labelled "Vanco Co-Axial II" on one side. And over in one corner there is a dusty Panasonic Dolby noise reduction unit. Which he doesn't use. "I've had it 2 years. But I haven't really figured it out yet."
And somehow, with this hodgepodge, the man makes music. Good music. Gives you hope, doesn't it?" - Musician Magazine 1983
DIY Pioneer and Pop Genius, R. Stevie Moore - Part of the Problem (1980)
For the audio cd version of "Part of the Problem"
get Clack (1980) at:
http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/clack.html
Also available on What's The Point?! (1984):
http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/whatsthepoint.html
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Alecia (1986)
Description: "If rock and roll was a baseball game, then R. Stevie Moore would be playing left field...and I mean DEEP left field! For 30 years, R. has been recording music at home (mostly) by himself. Apart from the occasional studio time, most of R.'s stuff has been strictly lo-fi affairs, which tend to concentrate more on song craft than on anything else. And that is what makes R. such a complete and utter genius! There's no one in pop music today who has put out such a large variety of music and has totally remained himself. Whatever style he touches he turns into R. Stevie. Whatever style touches him, he turns it into R. Stevie. It would be safe to say he walks the line between the Beatles, Ferlin Husky and the Residents." - Steve "Spaz" Schnee
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "Alecia" from All Well and Good (1986). Get it directly from its source at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/allwell.html
Also available in Contact Risk (1993):
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filmed NJ 1988
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Title: R. Stevie Moore, Reckless Penguins Bottom Line 1996 pt 2
Description: Live at the Bottom Line NYC, Sat 21 Sept 1996, Raymond Scott birthday tribute. Part 2 of 2.
1. "Coming Down To Earth"
2. "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals"
Reckless Penguins:
Chris Bolger - guitar
Dennis Diken - drums
Chris Butler - guitar, bass
RSM - lead guitar, wardance
Bob Brainen - bass, guitar
Enrico Granafei - harmonica
Dave Amels - electric keyboard
Concert produced by Irwin Chusid
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - She's Dead (1977)
Description: "Despite the fact that he has influenced countless numbers of commercially successful artists over the years, Moore himself remains a cult figure... appreciated by a relatively small yet passionately loyal fan base around the globe who realize the inherent and real content of his work." - LMNOP
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "She's Dead" from Swing and Miss (1977). Get it Straight from its Source at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/swingmiss.html
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"With a catalog as extensive and varied as R. Stevie Moore's, it's difficult to come right out and declare any single release to be his best work ever. However, an argument can certainly be made for 1977's Swing and a Miss." -- Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
filmed Montclair NJ by Frank Balesteri, 1 Sept 1988
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - You Love Me Do Something (1985)
Description: "The son of famed Country session musician Bob Moore, Stevie fell under the spell of the Beatles, Beach Boys and Zappa as a Nashville teen, which made him a bit of an outcast. In 1968, at the age of 16, he got a 4-track and started making his own tapes. Over the course of several years, he experimented with sounds and instruments and styles, until by the mid-70s, he was writing and recording his own brilliantly skewed pop songs, usually playing all the instruments himself" - Stewart Mason (All Music Guide)
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "You Love Me, Do Something" from R. Stevie Moore is Worth It (1985). Get it Straight from its Source at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/worthit.html
Also available in "Contact Risk":
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - 96 Tears (1977)
Description: Veteran Progressive Popster and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "96 Tears" (Question Mark & The Mysterians) from SheetRock (1977). Buy It Straight from the Man at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/sheetrock.html
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"This was the last album that R. Stevie Moore recorded in Nashville before moving for good to northern New Jersey later that year. Even more importantly, it's the first of Moore's albums to show a pronounced punk and new wave influence throughout." - All Music Guide
Edited and Put to Music by Autosam 2007
Shoplifter: Mark Cudnik; Employee: Mike Hopper
Filmed Nashville, 1988
Outdoor baby picnic: Phoenix, Arizona
Title: R. Stevie Moore - Little Man (1976)
Description: "See, the little guy and his homemade small-change cottage industry is one slant the story must have; a very worthy quality in this horrific industrialized nightmare we find ourselves living and dying in. We've completely lost the timeless basics in favor of megabucks." - RSM
Veteran Progressive Popster and DIY Pioneer, R. Stevie Moore - "Little Man" from Returns (1975/76). Get it Straight from the Man at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/tp/returns.html
"A key album in R. Stevie Moore's early career, 1976's Stevie Moore Returns is an effortlessly eclectic set ranging from prog rock-influenced instrumentals, to scrappy little pop songs with plenty of Moore's patented experimentalism on display." - Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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RSM footage: Nashville 1974
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Title: R. Stevie Moore and Frank Balesteri - Oil (1991)
Description: R. Stevie Moore feat. Frank Balesteri (aka Vanilla Bean, legendary WFMU DJ) - Oil (1991)
Available in "Contact Risk". BUY IT NOW at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/contact.html
"The spellbinding "Oil," an eight and a half-minute collaboration with Frank Balesteri, a close friend from Moore's days at the freeform radio station WFMU (where Balesteri was better known as the on-air personality Vanilla Bean) that's a shockingly effective example of cultural cross-pollination: a woozy, rhythmically challenging piece of politically-charged hip-hop (lyrics and vocals by Balesteri, music and production by Moore) that not only doesn't sound like the work of a pair of white guys in their 30s, but stands up next to most of the then-emergent underground/alternative hip-hop releases." - Stewart Mason (AMG)
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Filmed by RSM NJ 1988; driver: FB
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of Frank Balesteri
(1960/2001)
FB radio archives at WFMU:
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Showing Shadows (1975)
Description: "Recorded in Nashville between 1972 and 1976 on a pair of four-tracks with one cheap microphone, PHONOGRAPHY is the birth of the lo-fi DIY aesthetic. Artists from Guided by Voices and Pavement to the Apples in Stereo and Cornelius owe a tremendous debt to R. Stevie Moore." - Music.Excite.com
Unsung Father of Lo-Fi and Pop Genius, R. Stevie Moore - "Showing Shadows" (1975) from legendary first album Phonography - Get it Straight from its Source at: http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/phonog1.html
originally from Moore Often (1975):
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filmed Nj 1988 + Bob Moore's Home Videos (50s)
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Hate Epidemic (2003)
Description: "Home-recording pioneer R. Stevie Moore is a shamefully underappreciated genius, gleefully reconstructuring the whole of Western popular music into a richly idiosyncratic body of work that combines low-tech D.I.Y. resource-fulness with an awesome mastery of pop structure." - Harold DeMuir
Veteran Progressive Popster and DIY Pioneer - R. Stevie Moore - "Hate Epidemic" from Report Card (2003):
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Title: R. Stevie Moore - Thinking
Description: R. Stevie Moore mimes. Song originally from 1978, this remake from 1988. Appears on http://www.rsteviemoore.com/cd/warning.html
THINKING
i do a lot of thinking
thinking 'bout the way i think
concentration's great, i think
i don't think i'm unthinkable
i do a lot of drinking
thinking 'bout the way i drink
hanging my head in the sink
i don't think i'm unsinkable
i'm deciding topics to discuss
with myself
and i find so many subjects i can't think
oh no no no no no
i don't do much conversing
cursing 'bout the way i curse
conversations with my nurse
i don't talk about my thinking
i do a lot of wondering
pondering 'bout the way plan
do you have a goal, young man?
i don't think about my thinking
situation comedy tonight
with myself
it's a situation comedy tonight
oh no no no no no
simulation tragedy tonight
with myself
it's a situation comedy tonight
oh no no no no no
©1978 r.stevie moore h.p.music (alcapp)
Filmed with Beau the cat, Montclair NJ 1988