RossBeach.com - Discography

Major Releases

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Ross Island Bridge: Volume 1: The Process Is Now The Work (2009, A Bouncing Space Recordings, ABS012 CD) 01 What Should I Do (with Ali Ippolito) 02 An Everything (with Chris Robley) 03 We Met Too Soon (with Anne Adams) 04 My First Mistake (with Amanda Kelly) 05 The Way You Say Bye (with Patrick Kearns) 06 Dreaming Of (with Kaitlyn ni Donovan) 07 Am I Alone (with Nick Jaina) 08 A Pensive Moment (with Jon Ragel) 09 IFeelMyselfHoping (with Adrienne Hatkin) 10 Sprung Fully Formed (with Levi Ethan Cecil) 11 The Exploding (with S. Brooks)


Ross Beach: So It's Come To This - The EP (2007, Love Harder, CD-R) 01 Fortunes Fading 02 Strength 03 Buttercup 04 In Your Dust 05 So It's Come To This 06 Holiday All The Way 07 I Love You Harder 08 Digi Jive


Ross and the Hellpets: Optimism (2006, A Bouncing Space Recordings, ABS011 CD) 01 We Vanquished Terror 02 Begging 03 Both Horses 04 The Oxygen Bill 05 It's Over 06 A Piece of Your Glow 07 Voyeur 08 We Don't Care 09 You Were Right 10 Inclement Weather 11 It Won't Matter 12 Quesadilla 13 On Our Way 14 Siva Siva Shambo


Ross Beach: Country (2005, A Bouncing Space Recordings, ABS010 CD) Guests: Myshkin, Anne Adams, Natasha Roe, Tracy Civello 01 The Proverbial Shit 02 Ballad of 1999 03 Can't Be Good 04 Pepper 05 Monster 06 Stickum Tree 07 Sweet Stick 08 Another Country Mile 09 Tulia 10 Business Must Be Good 11 The TV's Talkin' 12 Welcome To 13 The Rain 14 Sun Wheel


Ross Beach: You Make It Look So Easy (2002, A Bouncing Space Records, CD, 40 min) Recorded at Casa Hotstream West-Annex, Portland, OR. Engineered by Ross Beach. Mixed by J.Gray. Mastered by J.Gray. C.Baker (drums), The Countess Von Hellpet (bass), Leila Cheiko (voice), Ali Ippolito (voice,piano), Dave Klopfenstein (voice), Julie Lerwill (voice), Linc McGrath (voice), Natasha Roe (voice) 01 Beautiful Worms 02 You and Me 03 All This Non-Stop Fun 04 I Prefer Sheep 05 Songs About You 06 Love Part 5 07 Here's The Part 08 Step Out Into The Sun 09 Thank You Come Again 10 Elizabeth St. 11 In Like With You 12 It Would Be So Easy 13 Just Like Clifford Brown 14 Your Holiday Home 15 It Won't Matter/Oh The Humanity 16 The Good Parts 17 The Meteors


Ross and the Hellpets: Teddy Bears Gone Bad (2001, Hotstream/Chicken Ranch, CD-R, 25 min) Mixed and Engineered by: Ross Beach Location: Casa Hotstream West - Portland, OR 01 Sink or Swim 02 Those Days Are Over 03 Leaving Before You Came 04 You Count More 05 It's Enough 06 Frozen Together 07 Evil and Bad 08 The Pink House 09 For The Record 10 Positive Louie 11 You Make Me Tired


Ross Beach: Ride Theory (1999, Chicken Ranch Records, CD, 60 min) Recorder: Tascam 8-track. Location: 710 North Blvd. Baton Rouge, LA. Engineered by Ross Beach & Mike Merriam. Mixed by Mike Merriam Maxine Beach (jews harp), Teresa Bergen (bass), Christine Blanchard (voice, piano), Glenn Fields (drums), Jeff Gray (trumpet), Talice Lee (voice, violin), Liz Smith (violin), Christianne Williamson (voice) 01 Chained Together 02 Acts of Extraterrestrial Vandalism 03 Carousel Horsies 04 On Your Wings 05 We Are 06 Slowly Settling 07 Got Me 08 For Katherine in Australia Part 5 09 I Have Everything 10 Love Is For the Weak 11 Carolina 12 Know You Now 13 Rain Out 14 How's It Been 15 Dimestore Philosophy 16 Lucinda Console 17 Genuine Joy 18 Redirecting Blood 19 The Paranoiacs Are Everywhere 20 Birthday Party 21 August 22 Carnival Ride 23 Anything You Please 24 Miami 25 Sideshow Wannabe


Ross Beach: Tender Severity (1997, Chicken Ranch Records, cassette, 60 min) Recorder: Tascam 8-track. Location: 4627 Baskin Cir. Baton Rouge, LA. Engineered by Ross Beach & Mike Merriam. Mixed by Mike Merriam Guest: Christine Blanchard (voice) 01 Obscure Celebrity 02 Snipped Your Flowers 03 Humming Along (Beach/Blanchard) 04 Stefani 05 Sundress 06 A Part Of Me 07 Breathing For Myself 08 Waiting For You 09 Eyes To The Window 10 Where You Been? 11 Having a Hard Time Having a Heart 12 The Rats 13 Accept 14 Betty 15 Last Night I Dreamt 16 Were You Running? 17 Stairs and Bears 18 Let Us Eat Cake 19 Flags Unfurled 20 Where Did The Time Go? 21 Lafayette Instrumental


Ross Beach: Utopian Love Songs (1996, limited release, cassette, 60 min) Recorded on a Fostex 4-track at 1663 Bellfort Dr. Baton Rouge, LA. 01 And Gladly Will I 02 Red-Haired Girl 03 Regarding Love 04 Dim Spark 05 Break Your Fall 06 Faking You Out 07 I Remind Myself 08 A Song of You 09 The Other 10 Great Acts 11 Enamored 12 You Can't Account 13 Ornamental Girl 14 Fontaine 15 Arabic Porn Interlude 16 Whatever Gave You That Idea? 17 My Microcosm Just Got Bigger 18 I Can Be Cold 19 I Like You 20 Dumb Blonde 21 I Don't Believe In Me 22 Vague Question Interlude 23 My Hands 24 I Hope You Die Happy 25 New Years Morn 26 The Pink House 27 Mary Hawkins 28 Widows and Orphans 29 Anything You Please


Ross Beach: They Call Me "Buck" (1996, limited release, cassette EP, 18 min) Recorded on aTascam 4-track at the Concordia St. House - Monroe, LA. Guests: George Brown (guitar), John Barnes (drums) 01 Such a Lovely Day '96 02 For The Record 03 There Are Flowers (Jeff Mangum) 04 Break Your Fall 05 Nothing To Say 06 Such an Ugly Day 07 For Katherine in Australia Part 4 08 New Years Day


Ross Beach: Cheesequake (1995, limited release, cassette, 60 min) Recorded on a Tascam 4-track at 406 1/2 W. Arizona St. Ruston, LA. Guests: Joel Evans (keyboard) 01 You Can Have It 02 Color My Ado 03 Stillborn 04 A Piece of Your Glow 05 Grotesque 06 Positive Louis 07 Personal Amusement 08 On Our Way 09 Snow 10 Now They're Coming 11 State O' The World 12 Termite 13 U Can Tell 14 We Are Not Adults 15 I Do Fine 16 Flying Axehead 17 Betsey's Theme 18 Tandy Mountain Feedback (Ross Beach/Joel Evans)


Ross Beach: The Hand-Crafted Heart Sickness Calliope (1994, limited release, cassette, 90 min) Recorded on a Fostex 4-track at 406 1/2 W. Arizona St. Ruston, LA. Guests: Mike Fuselier (bass) 01 Such a Lovely Day 02 Every Kind of Sound 03 Easter Sunday 04 All-Time Low 05 In Their House 06 One and Only 07 For Katherine in Australia 08 Example #1 09 Everybody's so... 10 One Night 11 Gimme 12 Leaving Home 13 My Ghost 14 Feeling Something 15 Down Home Country Gent 16 A Hundred Times 17 I Spoke 18 Life Experience 19 Monday 20 Defenestration (Beach/Fuselier/Wareham/Denver) 21 Chance Meeting 22 Growing Closer 23 Blue Skies Over Ruston 24 Something Real 25 A Bright Day 26 Warmth 27 Htmraw

Compilation Appearances

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Down In A Mirror - A Second Tribute to Jandek (2005, Summersteps Records, SUM0020 CD) 01 Jeff Tweedy - Crack A Smile" 02 Live Show Rabbits - You Painted Your Teeth 03 Eric Gaffney - The Dunes 04 Okkervil River - Your Other Man 05 Brother JT - Message To The Clerk 06 Six Organs Of Admittance - I'll Sit Alone And Think About You 07 Home For The Def - Cave In On You / European Jewel (Incomplete) 08 The Marshmallow Staircase - Down In Mirror 09 The Mountain Goats - White Box 10 George Parsons - Aimless Breeze 11 Lewis and Clarke - Nancy Sings 12 Jack Norton - Naked In The Afternoon 13 Rivulets - Sung 14 Kawabata Makoto - Babe I Love You 15 Wayside Drive - The Spirit 16 A Real Knife Head - Just Die 17 Ross Beach - Van Ness Mission 18 Multi Panel - I Found The Right Change 19 Dan Melchior - Babe I Love You 20 Pothole Skinny - You Painted Your Teeth 21 Dirty Projectors - With U Icon (An Homage)


Keep Portland Weird, Vol. 1 "Faking You Out" (2005, Sincere Brutality, CD) 01 Kid Finish - Hul 02 Secret Puppets - E-SPAZM 03 Argumentix - "EXNZE1" is the License Plate I Want 04 Point Line Plane - Wolfie Dream Theme 05 At Dusk - Slim But Not Too Slim 06 Rollerball - Cinammon 07 Ross Beach - Faking You Out 08 The Mere Specks - Track 09 09 Ghost to Falco - The End 10 Paint and Copter - The Human Field Experiment 11 JonnyX and the Groadies - Metal Brain: Part 1 12 E*Rock - Moth and the Dagger 4 13 Space Hawk - Stranded in the Transdimentional Sargassos' Miasma 14 Celestville - Spirit Duplicator 15 Josh Brown & Carl Kruger - Sound at 0:24 is Jonny Rotten's Voice Reversed 16 Sex With Girls - Maria 17 Malibu Falcon - Mick Slips/////Keith's Nutsac 18 The Formless - Shaking Ships 19 Macaw - Finally Let Go 20 Hungry Ghosts - Fuck You Toxic Bird part 4 21 Characters - When You Come Home 22 Magic Bullet/Grass Knoll - What Doing? 23 World - 11-1-04 24 Alarmist - Sister Reaper 25 Dead/Bird - Frosty, Margaret and Magic II 26 Callme@420 - Escape From the Lair of the Champion of the Universe With the Help of Animals 27 Gjnnungagap - The Hammer of Doom 28 Argumentix - Organ Donors


Lunch With A Bouncing Space Vol. 2, "It's Enough" (2001, A Bouncing Space Records, ABS007 CD) Location: Casa Hotstream West - Portland, OR 01 Lenola - Catch 02 Burnside Project - Scratch (Goes the DJ) 03 Hunnypal - Memory of a Late Night Promise 04 Moonbabies - Serpentine/Epileptic 05 99cent Dream - Nominal Friends 06 Jchurch - You're On Your Own 07 Ross and the Hellpets - It's Enough 08 Hydroplane - New World of Sound 09 The Silver Screen - Responsive Bull 10 The Dandelion Clocks - Closing Time 11 Shy Rights Movement - Inside of Me 12 Sauvie Island Moon Rocket Factory - Old Salt (live)


Happy Happy Birthday To Me Vol. 2, "Your Guitars" (2001, Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, CD) Recorder: Tascam 8-track Mixed by: Fred Weaver @ Apocalypse the Apocalypse - Baton Rouge. 01 The Late B.P. Helium - They Broke the Speed of Light 02 Princeton Reverbs Colonial - Peter Pine & the Make-Believe Band 03 Gwens - Actin' Funny 04 Boy's Star Library - On Tour With Audio Sound 05 Ross Beach - Your Guitars 06 Calvin Don't Jump - Breach of Taste 07 Seasick Crocodile - American Evenings 08 Unbunny - She'll Bring You Down 09 Scott Spillane - Angel Wings Will Carry Me 10 Boyish Charms - No Sudden Movements 11 All Girl Summer Fun Band - Lipsmacker Kiss 12 Breezy Porticos - Kay's Car 13 Red Pony Clock - The Day I Became My Lawm 14 Golden Synthetic Songbook - In the Sun 15 Dear Nora - Up On The Roof 16 Hurricane Lamps - Learn How To Sleep 17 Plastic Mastery - Hapworth July 16, 1994 18 Fablefactory - Broken Arms 19 Wee Turtles - 18's Out 20 Echo Orbiter - Mrs. Walker's Ice Cream 21 Galactic Heroes - These Days 22 Up Escalator - Poison Arrows 23 My Place In Space - Science For A Better America 24 Dixie Blood Mustache - Activate Ohm Tile 25 Army of the Red Museum - See You Next Year


Hey! It's My Birthday, "Kinder Words" (2000, Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records, cass, 60 min) Recorder: Tascam 8-track Mixed and Engineered by: Ross Beach. Outtake from Tender Severity 01 Golden Synthetic Songbook - My Imaginary Band 02 Calvin Don't Jump - the Electric Insecta Magica 03 Rolypolies - Eating Mashed Potatos 04 Georgia - Highway Soul 05 Boyish Charms - Where Traffic Exists 06 Getaway Bugs - Hot Chocolate Youth 07 Kingsauce - I Wish You Were Dead 08 Monolithic Goliath - How Do You Like Your Salad 09 Gwens - Dear Florence 10 Toys for Elliot - Toys for Elliot 11 Sneaky Sneak & the Cookie Jars - Pixiecut 12 Regia - Dust Has Settled on the Fan Blades of My Mind 13 Ross Beach - Kinder Words 14 Glenn Toots - My First Shave 15 Kymbliss - Unfinished no 1 16 Sissyfuzz - Sappy


Absolute Pleasure: A Tribute to Rocky Horror, track 1 - "Science Fiction/Double Feature" (1998, Center of the World Records, CD) Recorded on a Tascam 8-track at 710 North Blvd, Baton Rouge LA. Guests: Talice Lee (voice) 01 Ross Beach - Science Fiction/Double Feature 02 The Wallys - Dammit Janet 03 The Emma Peel Advocates - Over at the Frankenstein Place 04 Darlington - The Time Warp 05 The Jezebelles - Sweet Transvestite 06 Dysaster Area - I Can Make You a Man 07 Kung Fu Grip - Hot Patuti 08 Dysaster Area - I Can Make You a Man (reprise) 09 Croatan - Toucha Toucha Touch Me 10 The Mistletones - Eddie 11 Dystopia One - Floor Show 12 Darby Jones - Don't Dream It 13 Ill Repute - Wild and Untamed Thing 14 The Necro Tonz - I'm Going Home 15 Blue Peter - Science Fiction/Double Feature (reprise)


Chicken Ranch Roundup IV, track 17 "Letterboxing" (1998, Chicken Ranch Records, CD, 73 min) Recorder: Tascam 8-track Mixed and Engineered by: Ross Beach. Location: 4627 Baskin Cir. Baton Rouge, LA. 01 The Black Andy Roddick Show - Painting the Castle Pink 02 Bert - Scent and Memory 03 By June - Merciless Me 04 Slightly Miffed - Chicken Licken 05 Squint - Michigan 06 INPS - Emergencia 061 07 Ed Kemper Trio - Jose Haaah!! 08 Pulver - Magic 09 Methadone Actors - Spokane 10 Building Anna - Hearing Kimberly 11 It's Not Rocket Science - This Isn't Anything 12 Dildozer - Doom 13 7-10 Split - Move 14 Trailer Park Bullies - Ego 15 Interstate 4 - Let's Go 16 Ink - What a Thousand Days Will Never Make 17 Ross Beach - Letterboxing 18 Resin - Benchwarmer 19 Blima - Salad 20 Proceed To Fall - Recounteur 21 Grubworm - Cookie 22 Plague - Black 23 'Clip - Theme From the Van Pattens 24 The Put Downs - Lurch


Chicken Ranch Roundup II, track 5 "Such a Lovely Day" (1996, Chicken Ranch Records, CD, 72 min) Recorded at Nightwing (Shreveport LA) and Adam's house (Monroe LA) Mixed by: Adam Ryland Guests: George Brown (guitar), John Barnes (drums) 01 DFL Cartel - Cliche 02 Jeff Hart and the Ruins - If You Don't Want Me Now 03 Bert - Douglas Grinds His Teeth 04 Methadone Actors - Methadone 05 Ross Beach - Such a Lovely Day 06 Log - Lowly Worm 07 Squid Vicious - Deep Eddie 08 Dinosaur Salad - Big Mac 09 Ceed - Mickey's Revenge 10 Idgit - Chocolate Milk 11 Squint - Dinner 12 Spidermidgetbitchfrog - Friends 13 Hydrovibe - Down Decatur 14 Foil - Regret 15 Pulver - S.W.A.T. 16 Quill - Typhoon (LG) 17 Dos Arkies - Schizo Type 18 Blima - The Dog 19 Sledge - Broken Time 20 Kung Fu Grip - G.G. Allin is my Dad

Other Discography

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By June: Live at M's (1999, unreleased, CD-R, 55 min) Live recording Location: M's Fine & Mellow Cafe, Baton Rouge, LA. 01 Chained Together 02 Slowly Settling 03 Until the Day (Beach/Blanchard) 04 Betty 05 Sundress 06 People All Around (Beach/Blanchard) 07 Genuine Joy 08 Stairs and Bears 09 Gladly 10 I'll Be Gone (Doss/Calhoun) 11 Ceiling Bumps (Blanchard) 12 Merciless Me (Blanchard) 13 Positive Louis 14 Anything You Please


Chicken Ranch Roundup IV, track 3 "Merciless Me" (Blanchard) (1998, Chicken Ranch Records, CD 73 min) By June: Ross Beach, Christine Blanchard, Liz A. Smith, Allen Stone Location: Bluff Road Studio, Praireville, LA 01 The Black Andy Roddick Show - Painting the Castle Pink 02 Bert - Scent and Memory 03 By June - Merciless Me 04 Slightly Miffed - Chicken Licken 05 Squint - Michigan 06 INPS - Emergencia 061 07 Ed Kemper Trio - Jose Haaah!! 08 Pulver - Magic 09 Methadone Actors - Spokane 10 Building Anna - Hearing Kimberly 11 It's Not Rocket Science - This Isn't Anything 12 Dildozer - Doom 13 7-10 Split - Move 14 Trailer Park Bullies - Ego 15 Interstate 4 - Let's Go 16 Ink - What a Thousand Days Will Never Make 17 Ross Beach - Letterboxing 18 Resin - Benchwarmer 19 Blima - Salad 20 Proceed To Fall - Recounteur 21 Grubworm - Cookie 22 Plague - Black 23 'Clip - Theme From the Van Pattens 24 The Put Downs - Lurch


Orange Pop Chicken: The Many Moods of Orange Pop Chicken (1997, unreleased, cassette)


Chicken Ranch Roundup III, track 4 "Gladly" (1997, Chicken Ranch Records, CD, 74 min) By June: Ross Beach, Christine Blanchard, Liz A. Smith, Allen Stone Location: Bluff Road Studio - Praireville, LA 01 The Scaries - Psychotic Intensions 02 Methadone Actors - This Cigarette Tastes Like Miami 03 Dinosaur Salad - What Now 04 By June - Gladly 05 Tim Cohn - Go Greyhound 06 Bert - Your Crutches 07 'Clip - White Boy Wannabe Gangster 08 Bickley - Teen Porno Star 09 Gummit - He's a Tease 10 I-45 - Jeri's Kids 11 Pulver - Instant Crazy 12 Squint - Somebody To Talk To 13 Spidermidgetbitchfrog - Clip Clops 14 Grom's Rage - So Close 15 New Quadro - Hypopnick 16 Blima - Daze 17 Arris - Kismet 18 Jimmy Dong and the Human Blockheads - Swat 19 The Timmy Bryan Experience - Gnip Gnop 20 John Barnes - Frequent Urine Nation 21 Slag - Do It Anyway 22 Kung-Fu Grip - Repeat Myself 23 The Calbakes - Sometimes 24 Idgit - Carlston Says


Chicken Ranch Roundup 1, track 7 "Paranoid No.3" (Brown) (1995, Chicken Ranch Records, CD, 68 min) Buck Price: George Brown, Ross Beach, John Barnes Location: Nightwing Studio - Shreveport, LA 01 Ceed - Diesel 02 Habitual Sex Offenders - A Good Start 03 Idgit - Sinking Ships 04 Pummel - As We Go 05 The Maggie Doll - Days of June 06 Antidote - Whipping Boy 07 Buck Price - Paranoid #3 08 Headstone River - Volleyball in the Mud 09 Spidermidgetbitchfrog - Stupid Retard 10 Roadside Monuments - Blue Moon, the Shower Song 11 39 Stonybridge - Father 12 Blima - Reality vs. The American Way 13 Webster Speedway - Wayne, Master of Dumptrucks 14 June's Sun - Nude Song 15 Brown - Ishmail's Conspiracy 16 Intolerance - XII 17 Big Blue Apple - Arial 18 Sphamm - Funky Train


Sons of Earth: Source (1993, limited release, cassette) 01 The Reason Why (Musgrove) 02 In My Wintertime (Musgrove) 03 Child of the Rain (Musgrove) 04 Long Since Gone (Musgrove) 05 Death of the Dreamer (Musgrove) 06 Wayward Son (Musgrove) 07 Fly Away (Musgrove) 08 Storm (Musgrove)


Drifter Goat: Sucks Live (1992, limited release, cassette, 90 min) Live recording Engineered by: Drifter Goat Location: Greenside Amphitheatre - Baton Rouge 01 Tie Your Mother Down (Mercury/May/Deacon/Taylor) 02 What? 03 Missing (Beach/Millet/Millet) 04 Swan Swan H (Stipe/Mills/Buck/Berry) 05 Reverie 06 Supplier 07 Message in a Bottle (Sting/Summers/Copeland) 08 Sick 09 New One (Beach/Jo.Millet) 10 I'm a Boinger (Breathed) 11 Wander and See 12 The Ties That Bind (Beach/Jo.Millet) 13 Lethargic Nymphos '92 (Beach/Millet/Millet/Khare) 14 The Time Has Come 15 Ana Ng (Linell/Flansburgh) 16 Satan Love Boogie (Beach/Millet/Millet/Khare) 17 Dazed (Beach/Ja.Millet) 18 Theme to "Screaming Nuclear Vomit Death God" (Jo.Millet)


Drifter Goat: Screaming Nuclear Vomit Death God (1992, limited release, cassette, 90 min) Recorder: Fostex 4-track Mixed and Engineered by: Ross Beach Location: 1663 Bellfort Dr, Baton Rouge, LA


Drifter Goat: Doghouse Days (1991, limited release, cassette, 45 min) Live recording Engineered by: Drifter Goat Location: Ross's house and Vikram's house


Drifter Goat: Harmful if Swallowed (1990, limited release, cassette, 60 min) Live recording Engineered by: Drifter Goat Location: 1663 Bellfort Dr, Baton Rouge, LA


Beach-Head: Tongue in Cheek (1990, limited release, cassette, 45 min) Live recording Engineered by: Beach-Head Location: 1663 Bellfort Dr, Baton Rouge, LA


Beach-Head: White Noise (1990, limited release, cassette, 60 min) Live recording Engineered by: Beach-Head Location: 1663 Bellfort Dr, Baton Rouge, LA