Thursday 9 January 2014

Turds of Misery - Encore



Tour de forced

After dredging through the muck and mire of internet crap, I have found some detail deposits on 70s Iowa band Turds of Misery and an album they did allegedly record but which was never released, this explaining the lack of readily digestible info about any lp. The now completely untraceable album, Piles of Pain, was a private-press production of only 50 copies – a miniscule output even for this kind of personal push – and was recorded at the Flushings Studio based in Des Moines, Iowa, a small independent outfit specialising primarily in Country and Western bands who played the East Iowa and West Nebraska cowboy bars as well as emerging line-dancing clubs' circuit: an odd choice [either theirs or the Turds] for such a regular redneck Midwestern production line, though these were also private-press cuts but with a buying clientele from those various gigs when enthused by beer, yee-haw and saccharine dances to romantic homespun narratives. Can’t think the Turds had either the same repeating flow of custom nor sweetness in the recalling. But I could be wrong, and one can only imagine.

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  1. Hey, I know this is a 7 years old post, but even nowadays in 2021, nobody has ever discovered any album and music by Turds Of Misery, although in fact, did exist some stuff, but maybe only the band members has it (Wondering if nobody ever found one of them by this point?) Piles Of Pain is definitely the most wished unreleased album ever! I hope someday to have to opportunity to get this one!

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    1. Never too late! And it prompted me to re-read -I need to do another search to see if there is any availability these 7 years down the line, though you seem to think not, and I suspect you are right. We'll just have to imagine... Thank you for stopping by.

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    2. Thanks for the reply! I've also tried to do a big search myself on the most deep places on the internet to see if I could find any more informations, but nothing came cross. The only thing I can imagine to got what we want is tracking down the band members or their family members on Facebook and ask if they have a copy from the album, or at least, if they could share the MP3s of the tracks, and also of course, the picture cover from the album. Getting this album in any format would be definitely the GOAT.

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