Fast Stories...from Kid Coma explained

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
Type:studio
Artist:Truly
Cover:Truly Fast Stories from Kid Coma.jpg
Released:June 20, 1995
Recorded:1992–1994
Length:71:43
Prev Title:Heart and Lungs
Prev Year:1991
Next Title:Feeling You Up
Next Year:1997

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is the debut studio album by the American rock band Truly, released in 1995 through Capitol Records imprint Revolution.[1] [2] The vinyl edition was handled by Sub Pop.[3] Truly later released a 2020 remaster of the album on their Bandcamp page with the track "Aliens on Alcohol" being restored to the track listing.

Concept

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is loosely a concept album, about a comatose kid "reliving a past summer of grandeur."[3]

Release and reception

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma was released in the United States through Capitol/Revolution on June 20, 1995. The album was released in Europe by Parlophone Records in February 1996,[4] following criticism from Kerrang! over its lack of availability in the UK in November 1995.[5]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote that the album "mixes hard rock with the atmospheric early '70s psychedelia of Pink Floyd."[6] MTV called it "the great psychedelic hard rock rush of the year."[7] Trouser Press wrote: "Heavy but never bludgeoning, melodic but never cheesy, excessive but never ridiculous, Fast Stories is an extended trip into several of rock’s outer dimensions."[8]

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a hard-hitting, insistent record that occasionally overreached in its attempts to distance itself from its contemporaries." Loudwire ranked the album at twenty-sixth in their list of "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time".[9] Kerrang! wrote that Fast Stories...from Kid Coma "remains a genuinely vital album, and quite possibly the [grunge] genre’s swan song."[10] Louder Sound named the album in their list of "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums".[11]

Track listing

  1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
  2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
  3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
  4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
  5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
  6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
  7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
  8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
  9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
  10. "Virtually" - 4:48
  11. "So Strange" - 5:06
  12. "Strangling" - 5:33
  13. "Chlorine" - 11:27

12″ vinyl track listing / Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (2020 Remaster) track listing

  1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
  2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
  3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
  4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
  5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
  6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
  7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
  8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
  9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
  10. "Aliens on Alcohol" - 4:51
  11. "Virtually" - 4:48
  12. "So Strange" - 5:06
  13. "Strangling" - 5:33
  14. "Chlorine" - 11:27

Personnel

Truly
Additional personnel
Production

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams. Gregory. May 14, 2015. 'Singles' Soundtrack to Get Expanded Reissue?. November 6, 2021. Exclaim!.
  2. Book: Earles, Andrew. Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. 2014. Voyageur Press. 978-1-62788-379-5. 337.
  3. Sprague. David. May 13, 1995. Capitol Shows Faith In Seattle's Truly. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. 107. 19. 20. February 9, 2021.
  4. Anon. . February 3, 1996 . Ad Focus . . 28 . April 10, 2024 . worldradiohistory.com.
  5. Evans . Liz . December 2, 1995 . Something to Believe In . . . 40-41 . 574.
  6. News: High-powered Truly plays Shark Club . Las Vegas Review-Journal . 10 June 1995 . 9D.
  7. Web site: June 8, 1995. Truly Are Truly Great. https://web.archive.org/web/20150324185538/http://www.mtv.com/news/506012/truly-are-truly-great/. dead. March 24, 2015. February 9, 2021. MTV.
  8. Web site: Aswad. Jem. Robbins. Ira. Truly. February 9, 2021. Trouser Press.
  9. Web site: May 24, 2017. The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time. January 3, 2022. Loudwire.
  10. Web site: January 5, 2020. 10 lesser known grunge albums you should own. February 9, 2021. Kerrang!.
  11. Web site: Leivers. Dannii. June 15, 2020. 10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums. November 6, 2021. Louder Sound.