First Rehearsal Tapes
Suicide Superior Viaduct

First Rehearsal Tapes

Track List

  1. Speedqueen
  2. Creature Feature
  3. Tough Guy
  4. A-Man
  5. Sneakin' Around
  6. Too Fine For You
  7. See You Around
  8. Be My Dream
  9. Space Blue Bambo
  10. Spaceship
  11. Into My Eyes
  12. C'Mon Babe
  13. New City
  14. Do It Nice

Format

12" Vinyl

Release date

November 2017

Publisher

Superior Viaduct
“On Suicide’s First Rehearsal Tapes, recorded in 1975, Alan Vega and Martin Rev create minimalist aural structures, traces of which would surface on their eponymous debut album, released on the Red Star label in late 1977. “These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas. First Rehearsal Tapes comprise an audio diary of two men out in the ether, measuring themselves as evolving individual artists and as a unit who would rely on inseparability to realize their unique and often confrontational mass in the decades to come. What the tapes also reveal is that Vega and Rev were compositionally ambitious, capable of melody and form, while resisting definition as they headed further into uncharted territory. 
—Henry Rollins (excerpt from the liner notes)