Rick Fricano – Squint (Full Tape, 1991)
Here's something new!
I had actually never heard of this guy until a few months ago when I found this tape on Ebay. It's funny, it was listed as if he was someone you'd know, but googling his name only brought up a few albums from around 2015-2016. I listened to a few of his albums, liked them, and dropped the $20 for the tape.
It was definitely the same guy, but with vaguely more primal songwriting, meltier guitars and a drum machine. Intrigued, I looked into him further, and found he had a twitter. On there, I asked about this tape, here's what he had to say:
"I started writing and recording in 1979 I was 18.
About 1000 songs were written and recorded between
1979 to 2000 since then probably another 200.
It’s just for fun. I think I made about 12 dollars
in all that time"
COOL!
0:00 Telephone Girl
2:34 Heartache
4:49 Cynthia's Crying
7:09 Wonderful You
9:20 Coming Back
12:06 Wherever You Are
14:00 Post Modern
15:50 Girls of the Rodeo
18:35 Carlene
20:36 I Will Rescue You
24:03 Bad News Waiting
26:18 Pick Me
28:40 Diana
31:43 Ballad of You and Me
35:37 Ravishing Rayon
38:40 Harry
40:51 One Dream
42:55 Criticize
45:55 I Am Not That Man
50:29 Any Better
52:33 Cold as a Rock
54:48 Suppose
57:13 True Confessions
58:49 Synthetic Blues
1:00:15 Peace of Mind