When I mentioned Burnversion the other day, it was while knowing that a lot of people probably haven't heard of them, so here you go. I first heard about Burnversion from Kevin of Creature Did, who recommended them to me during an interview back in '95 while he also happened to be wearing a Burnversion t-shirt; there's a picture on one of the Creature Did posts. It was maybe a year later that I saw the Burnversion CD (which actually might've came out in '96, I'm not sure) at Ye Olde Trash American Style, and of course I snapped it right up.
Burnversion operated within the same general territory of Dis- and some of the stuff that would start to come out on My Pal God, meaning moving past grunge onto what was still the beginnings of post-rock, or something like that. This stuff is amazing, in any case, and this has been one of my favorite CDs since the time I bought it. I've also got a Burnversion 7", which isn't nearly as good, and then there's another Burnversion CD that came out in '98 which I've never heard. You'll find a few copies of either CD listed on Amazon right now, though they're in the $25 - $40 range.
There's also a video of Burnversion on a Louisiana TV show which was just posted on YouTube a few months ago that you have to check out (click here) - it's pretty astonishing.
Burnversion -
"Snowscreen"
"Dryades & Felicity"
"Resurrection Time"
"Texas Science Project"
"Time Will Murder Us And Fly"
(these files are now listen-only)
8 smart-ass remarks:
holy shit this stuff is incredible!
Yeah, this stuff kills. Thanks for checking it out.
When you first mentioned them, I read the name as "Bumversion" and couldn't decide whether it was an awesome name or horrible. Irrelevant as it turns out. Good stuff again, thanks.
BEERVISION!
The video's hilarious, too, you gotta check it out. "Delicious semi-beef type sandwich..." Great song, too ("Sam Kinison").
Jet Jag played a gig with them at the Flying Squire around the time their album cam out. They killed. Good band.
I woulda loved to have seen this band play. I remember that club at the Danbury Airport, though...
The mp3 files on this post are now listen-only (non-downloadable) files. They are now being hosted on my Vox page, along with 5 other songs from the CD that weren't included in the original post. My Vox page is accessible through any of the above listen-only links.
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