Exotic Birds

Play Radio
Listen to Exotic Birds Radio, featuring artists like Option 30, Dresden China, Nine Ways To Win, Dekka Danse and more…

7,601 plays (782 listeners)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Exotic Birds Ringtones to Cell
Buy
Add to my Library

Cleveland, United States (1983 – 1994)

The Exotic Birds was a band which formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1983. They are best known for their song “Everything is Different Now” and their cover of Badfinger’s “Day After Day”. The band’s keyboardist, Trent Reznor, later became famous as the leader of Nine Inch Nails

The Exotic Birds were formed in 1983 by three Cleveland Institute of Music percussion students, Andy Kubiszewski, Tom Freer, and Tim Adams. They wrote their own music, and were described as synth pop and dance. They achieved mainly local success, but appeared as an opening band for Culture Club, Eurythmics, and Information Society.

The band’s first single, “Dance the Night Away,” was backed with an earlier recording, “Who Knows Why,” by Kubiszewski and Nick Capetanakis (who performed with Kubiszewski in a prior group.) The order of the songs was accidentally flipped on the record, so the older song appeared as the A side. “Who Knows Why” received moderate local radio play and became a surprise hit in Japan. The band eventually grew to five members. Adams left to do orchestral work, but Mark Best and Frank Vale signed on.

Then, by 1985, Trent Reznor (who later formed Nine Inch Nails) joined the band on keyboards, programming and backing vocals. Shortly after that, Freer departed the band for the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and was replaced by Reznor’s roommate, Chris Vrenna, who would also later join Reznor in Nine Inch Nails. Still, this was clearly Kubiszewski’s band as neither Reznor nor Vrenna wrote any of the songs. By 1988, the band had broken up.
Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: , , , ,  See more

Share this artist:

Top Albums

  • Equilibrium
    Exotic Birds
    Buy
  • Day After Day
    Exotic Birds
    Buy

Top Tracks

1  
3
2  
2
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
3  
1
Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).

  • silverlage

    Mahglazzies...Selling out an underground genre like is a disgrace. Hearing this music has finally allowed me to respect Reznor.

    January 2012

  • thoughts_flow

    everyone, you can download this band from The Pirate bay there's a very good man (80zforever) releasing gold rare albums from 80's! he has already released more than 100 (!) albums with rare new wave/synth/post-punk/gothic/rock/other songs http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4228281/4_Rare_80s_Albums_[Part_8] All the stuff for your pleasure, dear listeners: http://thepiratebay.org/search/4%20Rare%2080s%20Albums%20[Part%20]/0/99/0 SHARE THIS MUSIC FOR THOSE WHO NEED SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM COMMERCIAL SOUND!

    October 2010

  • Mahglazzies

    @dddwreck - I'd say ascending to an industrial rock band is far better than sitting pretty in a synth-pop band.

    June 2010

  • ollietheripper

    прекрасно!!! талант у Трени был всегда****

    December 2009

  • adam_wrong

    marshmellow_man > the song is Angel. But it's not by Exotic Birds, not even by Nine Inch nails, it's by Vinyl Sun.

    May 2009

  • thefxc

    Why are Exotic Birds tracks being auto-corrected to Nine Inch Nails tracks? How annoying.

    February 2009

  • dddwreck

    Wow Trent really lost his musical talent after this band.

    February 2009

  • marshmellow_man

    what's the name of the song that goes "angels never learn to say goodbye"? can anyone tell me?

    November 2008
See all 21 shouts

Top Listeners

See more

More Information

Links
Band Members
Labels