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Cleveland, United States (1983 – 1994)
The Exotic Birds was a synthpop 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.
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.
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silverlage wrote:
Mahglazzies...Selling out an underground genre like industrial rock is a disgrace. Hearing this music has finally allowed me to respect Reznor.
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thoughts_flow wrote:
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Mahglazzies wrote:
@dddwreck - I'd say ascending to an industrial rock band is far better than sitting pretty in a synth-pop band.
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ollietheripper wrote:
прекрасно!!! талант у Трени был всегда****
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adam_wrong wrote:
marshmellow_man > the song is Angel. But it's not by Exotic Birds, not even by Nine Inch nails, it's by Vinyl Sun.
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thefxc wrote:
Why are Exotic Birds tracks being auto-corrected to Nine Inch Nails tracks? How annoying.
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dddwreck wrote:
Wow Trent really lost his musical talent after this band.
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marshmellow_man wrote:
what's the name of the song that goes "angels never learn to say goodbye"? can anyone tell me?
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GhostwithVoice wrote:
funny
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restlessss wrote:
pre-nin ???? what a funny neologism ...
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whiterabbitred wrote:
can anyone please help my find some of their songs?
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Zen_S69 wrote:
hehe! cool! :) you should also check out Ministry's VERY FIRST album called Work for Love :)
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NNNAAAMMM wrote:
its cute that trent was this much of a queer back in the day. :)
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Shaggylicious wrote:
OMFG ROFL
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Psyklon wrote:
maybe he did it for the lolz?
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Obscurity wrote:
Sad.
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Obscurity wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYBx5NJULY
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Chernignobil wrote:
I'm really curious about Trent's really dark times. Can anyone tell me where to find 1 or 2 of these songs?
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molderus wrote:
rotfl
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H0GW1LD3 wrote:
I'm here!
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