Music
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Endless Fields of Poppy
(Sunshine Cortex Records SCX-0303 11/03/2009)
4. Never Call
5. Bike, Ladder, Pills Car Wreck
6. George Bush
7. Flannery O'Connor
9. Multiples of Two
10. Babycakes
11. Chicken Soup For The Drag Queen
12. The Tortoise and The Hare
13. Fire In The Streets
14. Smiling Up At You
2nd Fanfare for Elephant 6
(internet-only release, 6/7/10)
Little Birds
This is a compilation of artists covering the music of the Elephant 6 Recording Company; The Curiously Strong Peppermints cover an unreleased Neutral Milk Hotel song called "Little Birds." Other artists include: General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers, Impaled Peach, Velma Spaghetti, Zombie Girlfriend Hospital Attack Force, Akryllic Love, Madeline Ava, Fig Mints, Stomach Ulcers, and The Garrats.
New Year's Resolution
(internet-only release, 2/11/10)
The Murder Mystery
This is a compilation of artists covering the music of The Velvet Underground. The Curiously Strong Peppermints' contribution features drums & vocals by fill-in drummer Emily Tenczar, and guest vocals & percussion from David from Cities of the Plain. Other artists include: The Yataris, Lou Nathanson, Velma Spaghetti, Zombie Girlfriend Hospital Attack Force, lenn9o9n and Impaled Peach.
The White (Christmas) Album
(internet-only release, 12/23/09)
Rocky Raccoon
What's The New Mary Jane
This is a compilation of artists covering The Beatles "White Album" in it's entirety. The Curiously Strong Peppermints perform two tracks, including the infamous White Album outtake "What's The New Mary Jane" (included as a bonus track on this compilation). While "Rocky Raccoon" features drums by fill-in drummer Emily Tenczar, "What's The New Mary Jane" features a collage of overdubs used on Endless Fields of Poppy. Other artists include: The Fig Mints, Broken Mono, Impaled Peach, The Falling Floors, The Stomach Ulcers, Vincent Nifigance, Simon Piler and The Atom Band, Akryllic Love and The Garrats.
A Tribute To Akryllic Love
(internet-only release, 4/21/10)
Bird Dreams and Fish Dreams
This is a compilation of artists covering the music of fellow indipendant lo-fi bedroom-pop artist Jack Seely, aka Akryllic Love. Although billed as The Curiously Strong Peppermints, the contribution was an entirely Jesse solo recording. Other artists include: Milkbones, fourpaws, Daydreaming in the Forest, Cameron Clarke and Willoughby Toad.
RDV
(internet-only release, 3/13/10)
Guiding The Angels
Feeling Yourself Disintigrate (Jesse solo with Chris Harding, Mike Relton and Bill Dodds)
This was an on-line orginized tribute album for Ricky "RDV" Vance. "Guiding The Angels" was an Endless Fields of Poppy outtake, although it's pretty much a solo Jesse recording. Also featured is a collaborative Flaming Lips cover by Jesse, with Chris Harding, Mike Relton of The Whatevers, and Bill Dodds of The Donner Party Animals.
A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording Songs Previously Recorded By The Flaming Lips... By Amateurs
(internet-only release, 1/17/11)
Halloween on the Barbary Coast
This is a fan-made tribute album for The Flaming Lips, co-organized by Jesse. The Curiously Strong Peppermints cover the song "Halloween on the Barbary Coast" and Mason performs a completely solo version of "Ma, I Didn't Notice" as Lonnie Breedlove & The Gentlemen's Wager. Other artists include: The Below The Counter Ice-Cream Company, The Plant Life, Kilgore Trout Oscillator Sunshine Machine, Globoots, Hope Chest, Twins, The Whatevers, and Zombie Girlfriend Hospital Attack Force.
3rd Fanfare for Elephant 6
(internet-only release, 6/21/11)
A Peculiar Noise Called 'Train Director'
Glue
The third volume of the fan-made tribute album for the Elephant 6 Collective. The Curiously Strong Peppermints features two tracks on the double-album, covers of The Olivia Tremor Control and The Gerbils. Also included is a collaborative cover of Olivia Tremor Control's "California Demise 3" by J. Noel MacIntosh (Jesse's solo acoustic alter-ego), Impaled Peach, Skyinfinity and lenn9o9n.
Echoes From The Ultraviolet Fuzz
(Sunshine Cortex Records SCX-0306 10/25/2011)
Act I: Two Pirouetting Debris
1. Time & The Synthetic Grin
3. Anna Livia Plurabelle
4. Trichotillomania
5. Painkiller
Act II: Season of The Grasshopper
7. Fourteen Ways To Beat The System
8. Dear Jurisprudence
9. Nightingale
10. Catastrophic
Act III: The Womb Redeemed
11. Rain Down
12. The Ultraviolet Fuzz
14. Saying Prayers
Dirty Mirror: reflections and interpretations of the smashing pumpkins
(internet-only release, 10/31/11)
Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
Released on Halloween, a fan-made compilation of Smashing Pumpkins covers featuring The Curiously Strong Peppermints' drastic reworking of the Mellon Collie rocker. Also of note is a track by Mason's soul-singer alter-ego Lonnie Breedlove, doing an a capella version of the b-side "Set The Ray To Jerry." Other artists include: Somnistatic, hazardsforheadlights, This Catastrophe, The Search For The Yeti, Constantine Georgiadis and The Midnight People.
Pet Sounds Covers Compilation (With a Little SMiLE)
(internet-only release, 1/28/12)
Here Today
This is another fan-made compilation, in which features a number of artists covering The Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds in it's entirety. The Curiously Strong Peppermints perform the song "Here Today." Other artists include: Zakk Zielke, Jingle Circus, Impaled Peach, Robert Borszich, The Academic Thugs and Mike LeRoy.
Our second record, it's a concept album arranged theatrically in three acts. The story follows The Inverted Why and Anna Livia Plurabelle
as they are divided and conquered by The Synthetic Grin, and The Inverted Why's quest to find The Ultraviolet Fuzz within himself.
Our debut album, recorded in little pieces between March 2004 and December 2006, with additional production and mixing in October 2009.
