This was their self-recorded basement demo tape, and it drew a ton of attention to them. And deservedly so.
It’s only 5 tracks: Be My Yoko Ono, Brian Wilson, Blame It On Me, If I Had $1000000, and a cool cover of Fight The Power.*
But writing “only” doesn’t do it justice. Each of those tracks is a monster, just sheer brilliance in songwriting and/or execution. The early 90s was a fertile time for this group to explode, and explode they did.
Yep, I own 6 copies of this. Every time I see one I buy it. It’s a rescue mission.
* I got this track on the Coneheads soundtrack CD, but there seems to be some question of whether it’s the same version as found here on the Yellow Tape. Does anyone know for sure?
keepsmealive 
6 copies?!! Wow.
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Yup, I rescue them whenever I see them. I showed them off on one of Mike’s live streams!
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So, after we talked about it on the live stream, I streamed The Yellow Tape. Every song on it is different from what ended up on the Gordon album, and yes… Fight the Power is completely different from the Coneheads soundtrack.
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I was listening for this and yup, you’re right. So cool. Check out the Buck Naked recording on YT too.
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Oh man, I didn’t even know this existed! I’m downloading it before it is gone!
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🙂
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I’ve seen a few copies of the Yellow a Tape out in the wild (don’t know what happened to the copy I had of it back in the day) but I’ve never purchased it because I don’t have anything to play it on. And believe me, I’m not craving the old days play cassette tapes.
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Oh I don’t play them at all, I just collect them. 🙂 I’m not big on cassettes either.
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I love the idea of buying up every copy to see of a record. And I love if I had a 10000000 dollars
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Yup it’s a rescue mission! Keep in mind, I have six copies but it’s been since high school to get that many copies… And yeah man, If I Had… was absolutely inspired. I love those early days of the band!
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I remember the first time
I hear dog them. They were on some American magazine programme that they played in the U.K. on late night TV. They were a couple of albums in and making waves. They really stood out as completely different to anything else coming from over the pond
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Yessir, very fresh and fun. Part of a bunch of Canadian bands at the time that were awesome, including Moxy Fruvous, Arrogant Worms, Corky & The Juice Pigs, etc.
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I love that you could have made all of those bands up in the last five minutes and I would still believe you
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Nope, those are all real bands, and all use/used humour and smarts to make some really great music here in Canada!
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Yeahhh Right! Sure they are!
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I can’t make up stuff this good!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxy_Früvous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrogant_Worms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_and_the_Juice_Pigs
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Hahaha!
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