The Prefab Messiahs
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Worcester MA, United States (1981 – 1983)
Together from 1981-1983, they played basement and club shows fairly often. Aside from the 1983 cassette Flex Your Mind, though, no recorded material was available from them until 1998’s Devolver CD-R anthology. Several songs on the album were produced by their friend (outsider psychedelic singer-songwriter) Bobb Trimble.
At their first-ever gig, the band distributed a simultaneously prank-ish and poker-faced “manifesto”, using 60s rock album liner notes as a wobbly template. It began:
“…Was it only 3 or 4 weeks ago that the future PREFAB MESSIAHS first pooled their cosmic energies and talents, and – crooning their messages about our Plastic Age – decided to totally revolutionize Pop Music? The Concept was shocking in its boldness – 4 young men with a Destiny – from the Store 24 to Mister Donut their eyes burned with what they saw, even as they lapped it up faster than a small order of McDonald’s fries. Reality could not keep the PREFAB MESSIAHS down! Still, if the Media is the Message, just what are these guys talking about? In short, they’re talking about you and me and no one in particular – about the kind of Eternal Struggle that most “bands” and “musicians” don’t even realize exists…”
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The 16th Track
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Franz Kafka
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Prefab Sun
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Desperately Happy
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Beyond All That
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Cousin Artie
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hollmill
these guys are everything I want from an early 80s band!
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amazpyel
Am i in 60' ?
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getbentblog
Out now from Brooklyn’s Fixed Identity, the 12” comes with fold-out zine and cool points to get any music snob pouring over your good taste. Preview the record with the tape-hissed “Sacred Cow” and Trimble-flared “The 16th Track:" http://letsgetbent.tumblr.com/post/16185972202/review-the-prefab-messiahs-peace-love-alienation
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beyondwithin
@WesternRadio - there are 5 free trax here at Last.fm. more stuff cheap at their Bandcamp too.
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WesternRadio
can someone send me anything by them? please
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feelbythem00n
this is just so good to my ears
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beyondwithin
new (archival '82) 12" EP coming fall '11 from Fixed Identity. you can hear/buy the last single (7" & digital) on bandcamp
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sparrow1970
I can't stop listening to that Franz Kafka single, is there more from these guys like that?? This is the first time I heard them, LOVE the single :-)
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ZacMagnum
Check out the PREFAB MESSIAH'S "Franz Kafka" 7" right now, originally from 1982 >> http://styrofoamdrone.com/2011/04/20/the-prefab-messiahs-franz-kafka-7/
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