#3.14159: Union Station February 19th, 2006
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This week “we” interrupt your regularly scheduled Shoebox Full of Tapes to bring you a brief plug for my friend Joe’s band, Industrial Theme Park. The band is Joe and a rotating cast of others, including myself at one point; “Union Station” is a song we did for a comp in 2004.
Joe has just started putting new Industrial Theme Park stuff online, and it’s really good. Please check it out, and I’ll see you back here next week with an actual new song. Thanks for listening. (The license I’m using for the rest of SFoT doesn’t apply to this week’s song because I didn’t write most of it. However, I hereby apply said license to the keyboard and vocal parts. Whee!)
At 12:49 pm on February 19th, 2006, Will wrote:
Haha. Best entry number ever. But you missed e!
At 6:15 pm on February 20th, 2006, Nick wrote:
I totally didn’t see the download link for a song with this entry. I just followed the link straight-away, listened a bit and thought that, cripes, your voice had changed. It seemed awfully masculine. Decided that it wasn’t you. Put it on the back burner. Poked about with RSS, added SFoT to test, noticed the link, checked it out and then wrote in short, declarative, sentences for a while. Without subjects. *wishes for lyrics (or is it just “I’ll see you on the other side” [repeat]?)*
At 7:12 pm on February 20th, 2006, Lindsey wrote:
Will — I almost called it #3.5, but decided I’ll never have this opportunity again.
Nick — It’s “I’ll see you on the other side of this”, excepting the part at the end, which was sung by Joe Carr, another erstwhile band member (not to be confused with Joe Geni, who is the band), and which I don’t think was ever written down.
At 3:15 pm on February 21st, 2006, jes5199 wrote:
pretty.
At 11:15 pm on March 5th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » making the time (a title that promises great things but is paired with a post that is rather a let-down) wrote:
[…] I never blogged about Kuper’s SFoT #3.14159 post for a variety of reasons but, in the past few days, I have found myself listening with increasing frequency to a song that she did vocals and keyboard for, Industrial Theme Park’s Union Station [mp3]. See the post for oddball licensing info. […]
At 7:12 pm on March 8th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » I’ll see you on the other side of this wrote:
[…] In still further other news, I am leaving Iowa City tomorrow afternoon to go back to my hometown, a day before Spring Break starts. I shalln’t say why except that it won’t be fun but it has to be done. On a related note, the title for today’s post comes from the lyrics of Industrial Theme Park’s song Union Station. Please note that I do not mean “I’ll see you on the Other Side of this [life]”. […]
At 3:31 pm on March 12th, 2006, Shoebox Full of Tapes » #6: Chase wrote:
[…] When taken together, holidays, road trips, and long showers are a pretty good recipe for awakening the muse; I came up with this song in the shower in a Kansas City hotel room around Christmas 2002. It always cried out to be played with a band, and finally, in spring ‘04, my short-lived college band (Tanny Phillips, guitar; JP Ramos, drums) made this recording for the same comp that “Union Station” was on. (At our school, bandcest was widespread enough that if somebody played on one song on the comp, they probably played on more than one.) We weren’t all that great, but I think you can hear at least a whisper of what this song is supposed to be. Thanks for listening. Breathing heavy every time he walked by Feeling ready when his eyes met mine I loved to push him, loved to hear him protest Knew it was over when he finally said yes […]