Tag: Frustrated Housewives

  • Frustrated Housewives in the Dollar Bin — Literally

    Frustrated Housewives in the Dollar Bin — Literally

    If you read last week’s Substack post, “Enter La Baumba,” you already know the story. If you didn’t, go read it!

    I found a box of about a hundred leftover copies of the self-titled Frustrated Housewives CD, and rather than let them keep collecting dust, I’m putting them out into the world.

    For a dollar.

    This is the 1997 self-titled release — sixteen tracks of semi-industrial electronic music, recorded back when a CD was how you actually got music into people’s hands. It’s a piece of the archive, warts and all, and now it’s sitting in the Dollar Bin on the site.

    No digital download, no remaster, no frills. Just the CD, exactly as it was pressed almost thirty years ago.

    If you want the full story, go read Enter La Baumba on Jeff Elder Isn’t Real.

    Otherwise, grab one while they last — there’s only about a hundred, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.

    Find it in the Dollar Bin now.

  • Original Demos 1996

    Original Demos 1996

    Today, appropriately Friday, the 13th, welcomes a new Frustrated Housewives compilation; The Original Demos 1996.

    These recordings were made for the first CD (the green album with the Joan Warhol layout). While it has been remastered, the overall audio quality on these is not up to today’s standards and the performances are not nearly as polished as they became in later years, hence “Demos.” But I wanted to get them out there since all of the songs bring back memories or have some significance in my life and music career.

    If you were there back in the day, you may notice the absence of New World and a couple of others. Unfortunately, Warner Brothers was not willing to license the vocal samples for a new release, so I am not going to be able to get them on streaming services or for sale. There’s a good chance I may just make them freebie downloads in the near future, so stay tuned there.

    When I wrote these songs, it was a difficult and confusing time for me, both musically and personally. Listening to these tracks I am taken right back to where I was when I wrote them. We live. We learn and we move on. Right? Right! For now, I hope you enjoy this little time capsule of where my head was in 1996.

    Original Demos is available on Amazon by clicking here and is on all major streaming platforms.