The Recorded Oeuvre of the Portuguese Sailors

• Hello, Sailor!
  Songs that might have been on our first album.
  • Bad Cat
  • Container Shipping
  • Godot
  • Neoplastic Etudes
  • Short Round
  • Utah Jazz
  • More coming soon . . .

• Blacker-Dabney-Ricketts Concert
  May 30, 1997, Blacker House courtyard, Caltech. Guest performers: Chris Berger, Monty Fowlkes, Samantha Howarth, Sarah Milkovich, Kudah Mushambi, Rory Sayres, Ann Stimmler, Chris Walker.
  1. Unattainable Women (as The English Patients)
  2. Song of Death
  3. Bad Cat
  4. H
  5. Landlord
  6. Theme from "The A-Team"
  7. You and Me
  8. Skankin' With Death
  9. Container Shipping
  10. Neoplastic Etudes
  11. Twelve-Hour Day / What's Love Got To Do With It
  12. Utah Jazz
  13. Democracy
  14. Logic World | Dream Alpha
  15. The Vig and the Skeet
  16. God Bless the Labor Movement

• Drop Day Concert
  November 21, 1997, Dabney House courtyard, Caltech. Guest performers: Chris Berger, Monty Fowlkes, Kathryn Todd, Chris Walker.
  1. Phoenix
  2. Bad Cat
  3. The Vig and the Skeet
  4. Hiding From Camille
  5. Landlord
  6. Hi There
  7. First Time South of the Equator
  8. Booty Option
  9. Socialissimo
  10. Mutant Suzanna
  11. A Pound of Flesh
  12. Commercial Song
  13. Unattainable Women
  14. Democracy
  15. Container Shipping
  16. Utah Jazz
  17. Short Round
  18. Mouthpiece Song

• Clear Your Mind
  Selected improvisations.
  1. date unknown, 1997
     1. All Right, Boys
     2. We Begin Anew
     3. End Up In Mexico
     4. Living With You
     5. One Selected Thing
     6. Drill
     7. (untitled)
     8. The Best Sculpture
     9. (untitled)

  2. date unknown, 1997
     10. The Mighty Champion / Interstate 238
     11. (untitled)
     12. (untitled)
     13. One Past Bit of Strife
     14. Constants
     15. Confusion
     16. Why Henry Rollins Books At Tower Smell Like [inaudible]
     17. Greatest Profundity, Greatest Banality
     18. Just Clear Your Mind
     19. Empty Your Mind, But Do Not Clear It
     20. And Everything That Is To Come
     21. Digestion
     22. Goodness
     23. Things Which Are Past Their Prime
     24. Destiny
     25. Failure
     26. Failure and Mary Had a Little Lamb
     27. Playing Our Instruments In As Rhythmic a Manner As Possible
     28. The Last Song

  3. date unknown, 1998
     Guest performer: Kathryn Todd, flute.
     29. (untitled)
     30. Worm
     31. Clarity
     32. The Redundancy of Your Angst
     33. Styrofoam
     34. The East
     35. Four Score and Seven Years Ago
     36. Nothing But The Color White
     37. Wet Your Whistle
     38. El Niño

  4. June 14, 1998
     39. Jack Jack Jack
     40. Plastic
     41. Heat
     42. Icicles
     43. Leo Durocher
     44. Rolling Hills / Ever Seen It Like This Before?
     45. Lawn
     46. German Intellectuals With the First Name Erwin
     47. The Fact That It's Fiesta Time
     48. The Most Fruitful Concept
     49. A Tree
     50. Intrusion
     51. The Whale

  5. June 16, 1998
     52. Everything Tacky and Lame
     53. The Shame Game
     54. Happenstance
     55. You Can't Call On Inspiration Like Some Kind of Magic Genie

  6. June 24, 1998
     56. Sweat
     57. Paraguay
     58. Abortion
     59. Speed of Execution and Economy of Expression
     60. Geoff's Sandy-Blond Hair
     61. Again I
     62. Again II

  7. June 28, 1998
     Geoff on bass, Adam on guitar.
     63. DJF
     64. State of Texas
     65. The High and the Low
     66. A Fact
     67. Uno Mas
     68. (untitled)

  8. July 29, 1998
     The Sailors' final recording session.
     69. (untitled)
     70. Especially Pounding On That Confounded Drum
     71. Especially Your Left Side
     72. Pop Culture
     73. The Good Direction
     74. Vegetable Matter
     75. The Section, and the Section After That, and the Section Following
     76. A Fish Taco
     77. Prolonging the Inevitable

The Portuguese Sailors were:

Patrick Drew -- bass
Alex "The Judge" Dunn -- saxophone and clarinet
Geoffrey Matters -- guitar
Michael Radford -- drums
Adam Villani -- vocals and percussion

All music and lyrics copyright © 1997, 1998 the Portuguese Sailors.

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