Lowt Ide
This Album Fucking Sucks (LP)
2005, 2007 (2011 reissue)
1. Lowt Ide - Elton John For Optimum Power Breakfast (1:37)
2. Lowt Ide - Set The Dance Floor On Fire (2:24)
3. Lowt Ide - Empathy (2:54)
4. Lowt Ide - Let's Rock (1:59)
5. Lowt Ide - I Don't Know Much (0:24)
6. Lowt Ide - Interview With Guy Charles (1:55)
7. Lowt Ide - Velvet Sunset (2:31)
8. Lowt Ide - Way (3:34)
9. Lowt Ide - I Got Judd In My Bones (0:30)
10. Lowt Ide - Toto Cho Cha (1:42)
11. Lowt Ide - An Enlarged Penis Penetrates Super Mario's Ass (0:45)
12. Lowt Ide - Tommy Hilfiger Does Bei Jing (5:42)
13. Lowt Ide - Set The Dance Floor On Fire (Reprise) (0:14)
14. Lowt Ide - Black (1:44)
15. Lowt Ide - Are You Gonna Go My Way (2:26)
16. Lowt Ide - Our Second Album Comes Out Next Month (0:59)
17. Lowt Ide - When You're Gone (2:22)
18. Lowt Ide - American Flag (2:26)
19. Lowt Ide - Mountain Of Love (1:34)
20. Lowt Ide - A Porcupine Pissed On Me While I Was Attempting To Sniff Its Genitals (0:32)
21. Lowt Ide - My Dad Is The CEO Of DeVry (2:12)
22. Lowt Ide - Reebok Pumps And Spandex (2:06)
23. Lowt Ide - Patrick Swayze Is Sexy (I Would Pay Money To Touch Him) (1:25)
24. Lowt Ide - Mish Bish & Phish (3:20)
25. Lowt Ide - I Am Compiling The Beer Vs Beards Data I Will Send Out An Email With The Results By Thursday (0:45)
26. Lowt Ide - Mom I'm Sorry I Put The Cat In The Microwave (1:36)
27. Lowt Ide - Higher (2:55)
28. Lowt Ide - Freedom Cheney (1:43)
29. Lowt Ide - Moonshitz (Reprise) (0:42)
30. Lowt Ide - Authority (Next Time Bring Yer Own Fuckin' Guitar) (1:09)
31. Lowt Ide - Flying And Fisting (1:43)
32. Lowt Ide - Ryan Healy Goes To Subway (1:06)
33. Lowt Ide - I Love My Appendix (live) (1:57)
34. Lowt Ide - Showtune (live) (2:18)
35. Lowt Ide - Healey Ford (live) (1:29)
36. Lowt Ide - Driving Home And A Slut Swallowed My Load (live) (2:11)
37. Lowt Ide - We Didn't Start The Fire (live) (1:49)
38. Lowt Ide - I Just Don't Care (live) (2:57)
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August 2000: A month after Splice’s last show, 2 of the band members form Low Tide and play their first show a day later. They vow to never record an album and only perform live. (Two songs from their first show appear here as bonus tracks, “Showtune” and “Healey Ford,” intended to be a car commercial for Ryan H’s car dealership where Splice used to practice.)
February 2001: They play their third show at UMass Amherst with Karl Z on keyboards, Jeff P on snare drum, and some dude named Mitch on lead vocals who ended up disrobing down to a pair of women’s underwear throughout the course of the show, causing the entire crowd of 80 people to get up and leave all at once. (“I Love My Appendix” from this show appears here as a bonus track.)
December 2002: By this point, through internet searches, they realize there are several other bands called Low Tide, but there was no band called Lowt Ide. Now a three-piece band (Russ F and Mike F with Karl Z), they decide seemingly out of nowhere to release one completely inaccessible 3-disc album. Assuming they’ll be able to complete this quickly, that same night, they write the numbers 1 through 115 in a notebook and fill it with absurd song titles and cover choices. (They normally think of the song titles before recording the songs.) They start recording within the next few days, putting a checkmark next to the song titles as they recorded them.
May 2003: They take a break from shows. Meanwhile, they’ve already filled up at least three tapes.
June 2003: They record an unreleased live album in Russ’s living room to a crowd of 6 people and call it “Live at MSG.” (Three songs appear from this as bonus tracks: “Driving Home and a Slut Swallowed My Load,” the cover of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” and their cover of a high school band on the song “I Just Don’t Care.”)
May 2004: All six tapes of shit and noise are converted one-by-one to a digital format, and a few weeks later, the album is mastered, sorted into a manageable tracklisting, and titled “There’s Absolutely No Fucking Way in Hell We’ll Ever Get Signed to a Major Label,” containing around 90 studio tracks and 15 bonus tracks (or something close to that). (An additional 20 songs are never used in the final mastering.) Also by this point, Karl had left Lowt Ide and they were back down to two members, although still encouraging guest appearances from their friends on many songs.
September 2004: They decide the album is too massive for anyone – including the band members themselves – to completely digest. They narrow down the “strongest” material and release it with artwork as their first LP, “Live at Madison Square Garden.” No one really cares, but that’s ok.
Early-2005: They hope to release an album of the worst songs from these sessions titled “This Album Fucking Sucks” which was abandoned soon after. Instead they take the best of the remaining songs and burn them onto a CD-R. For two years, that one CD-R is the only known copy of “This Album Fucking Sucks” as the version posted here.
March 2007: A tracklisting is added to Lowt Ide’s myspace page. Several copies are burned and handed out at a series of 3 shows they played in Danbury. The artwork is influenced by the movie Caddyshack.
“Empathy,” “Way” and “Moonshitz” are warped versions of Splice songs written by their former band leader Ryan H.
“I Don’t Know Much” is a cover of Aaron Neville. “Black” is Pearl Jam. “Are You Gonna Go My Way” is Lenny Kravitz. “When You’re Gone” is Matchbox 20. “Higher” is Creed.
The song title “Patrick Swayze is Sexy (I Would Pay Money to Touch Him)” is a quote from Gummo.
“Mish Bish & Phish” is about their seventh grade woodshop teacher.
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