Curium

Curium Albums

This is a comprehensive list of Curium songs and frankly a blatant exercise in personal myth-making. Like scratching my name in a tree after I cut it down.

"So what becomes of all the little boys who never comb their hair?" - (On the Nickel by Tom Waits)

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1. "The Green Shack E.P." (winter 1994)
2. "Rub For Luck" (spring 1995)
3. "Breezer" (summer 1996)
4. "Faded!" (winter 1996)
5. "Comfort" (spring 1997)
6. "Bedroom Pioneer" (autumn 1997)
7. "I'll Hold Your Milkshake: The Best of Curium 1995-7" (spring 1999)
8. "Cyprus" (winter 2000)

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Ordering Information

For the first six albums, the track-listings refer to the original tape versions. The CD track listings are often different and superior although in some cases a track or two have been removed in the transition from 90 to 80 minute limits and two songs have moved back where they belong i.e. from "Comfort" to "Faded!".

Winter 1994 - "The Green Shack E.P."

Recorded 2.11.94 in Mr. Iszatt's green shack

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Rich Baynes - Bass
Rob Kerridge - Electric Guitar
Gary Iszatt - Drums

1. Nameless
2. Bleed
3. Holocaust
4. Hellbound
5. Blame
6. 17 Lies

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Spring 1995 - "Rub For Luck"

Recorded 17-18.2.1995 in Rob's living room.

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Rich Baynes - Bass
Rob Kerridge - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Gary Iszatt - Drums

1. Sweet?
2. Stand On My Own
3. Listen
4. Unconscious
5. Nameless
6. Insomnia
7. Fallout
8. Fantasy Head
9. Padded Cell
10. 17 Lies
11. Blame

-- TOP --

Summer 1996 - "Breezer"

Band songs recorded summer 1995 at Rob's house. Solo sections recorded throughout late 1995 and early 1996 I believe, in my bedroom largely.

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Flute, Percussion
Rich Baynes - Bass
Rob Kerridge - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Gary Iszatt - Drums

1. Get On
2. Dreaming About Somebody Else
3. Be Mine Forever
4. Shallow Days
5. Carefully Carefree
6. We Are Together
7. Last Night
8. All the Time
9. I Don't Belong
10. Be The One
11. Up
12. Anyway
13. Everything Together
14. Let's Go Out Tonight
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15. Untidy When I'm Dead
16. Artificial Love
17. Gravity
18. Sweet?
19. Don't Forget Who You Are
20. Trust
21. Left My Dreams
22. Lucky
23. Anyway (instrumental guitar duel version)
24. Get On (original acoustic bliss)
25. We Are Together (more restrained me/me)
26. Ghosts
27. I Don't Mind
28. Saved By You
29. Leaving
30. This is the End

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Winter 1996 - "Faded!"

All recorded in my college room between October and December 1996 apart from two or three recorded at home immediately post-Breezer and in Cornwall, summer 1996.

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano
Anna Warrington - Backing Vocals
Anna Lindley - Backing Vocals

1. Find the Time
2. About You
3. I Want Your Bones, Gorgeous!
4. She is the End
5. A Proper Song^DOWNLOAD
6. Moonsong #2
7. The World is Mine
8. Saturday Night and Everything
9. Love From p.s. etc.
10. Some Girls are Bigger than Others (Morrissey/Marr)
11. Gizmo
12. Your Friend ^DOWNLOAD
13. The Big Blue
14. Reasonable
15. - (Dash)
16. Some Days

-- TOP --

Spring 1997 - "Comfort"

All recorded in my college room and at home between December 1996 and April 1997

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Flute
Anna Warrington - Backing Vocals
Kate McClune - Voice on "Where the Lovers Go"

1. Outside
2. Iridescent
3. Heaven is Out of the Question
4. Interlude: Peter's Tale (words by A.Horrox)
5. Christine's River Bed
6. In a State and Innocent
7. The Only Place to Be
8. Interlude: You're My Sweetest Thing
9. Where the Lovers Go (spoken word by K.McClune)
10. Down
11. Storm Song
12. A Real Goodbye
13. Interlude: Tragic Eyes
14. In Your Name
15. Zeep Zeep ^DOWNLOAD
16. Faith
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17.Ulysses
18. Hold Me
19. Autumn Debris
20. From Time to Time
21. New Lights and Motorways
22. Pixie
23. All This Jealousy
24. Shame
25. Every Day
26. This Room Was Burgled by Chipmunks
27. Sigh No More, Ladies (words by W.Shakespeare)
28. I Love You, Goodbye
29. Inside

-- TOP --

Summer 1997 - "Bedroom Pioneer"

Most songs recorded in "Dave's Shack" as it has become known, a den of iniquity by this time, between April and September 1997 and in my college room.

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Bass, Flute, Harmonica, Percussion
Rich Baynes - Bass
Rob Kerridge - Electric Guitar
...and introducing the drum machine.

1. The Closest One
2. Responsible
3. Cheap Alcohol ^DOWNLOAD
4. Putting Petals in Rivers
5. I Can't Be With You
6. Doubt
7. Not the Whore You Think
8. Perfect Imperfect
9. Learning to Flee
10. To Die For
11. A Long Time Ago
12. Stay in Your Arms ^DOWNLOAD
13. Do You Love Someone Else?
14. Die Alone

-- TOP --

Spring 1999 - "I'll Hold Your Milkshake: The Best of Curium 95-7"

All recording details as above, obviously

1. Stay in Your Arms ^DOWNLOAD
2. Hold Me
3. I Want Your Bones, Gorgeous!
4. Every Day
5. Cheap Alcohol ^DOWNLOAD
6. Responsible
7. A Proper Song
8. Ulysses
9. Get On
10. Your Friend ^DOWNLOAD
11. Untidy When I'm Dead
12. Somedays
13. Zeep Zeep DOWNLOAD
14. Artificial Love
15. Outside
16. The Closest One
18. Dreaming About Somebody Else
19. Sigh No More, Ladies
20. Storm Song
21. A Long Time Ago
22. Beautiful Blanket (Hey Hey)

-- TOP --

Early 1998 – Late 2000 - "Cyprus"

Recorded anywhere and everywhere, including three different college rooms, the shack, and elsewhere.

David Pinching - Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano

1. Hurricane ^DOWNLOAD
2. Ride
3. Like the Old Days
4. Deepest Desires
5. Sun Shine Down
6. The Cancer of Her Love
7. Winter Symphony
8. The Old-Fashioned Kind
9. Over and Over
10. Villarrica
11. In a Moment
12. Roses and Diamonds
13. This Sordid Life
14. Your Dreams Won't Come Alive
15. We Don't Argue Any More
16. This Perfect Love
17. Dance
18. I Missed the Summer
19. Better Off Alone
20. Goodbye My Friends

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All songs on the first two albums and the band ones on "Breezer" were by Pinching / Baynes / Kerridge / Iszatt and since then all have been written by me, David Pinching, with a few exceptions mostly noted above where significant. Full details appear on album inlays.

Ordering Information:

CDs of all the albums above can be bought directly from me in Oxford, England - all are £5 or $7.50, cheques and international money orders only. Write to davidpinching at hotmail dot com. Finally, you can DOWNLOAD MP3 files of songs from these albums