Everybody
Comes and Goes
Zip Records 2008
Our second release on Zip Records, recorded in the summer of 2007, and
released in January of 2008. The CD cover is a 3 panel shot with
over 35 people ... it's a mini Sgt. Pepper in a weird New Jersey
kinda way. Everyone represented has played some small part to make
Smash Palace what it is today.
Tracklisting:
1. She
2. Didn't Anyone Tell You
3. When You're Down
4. Dressed in Black
5. Don't Ask Me Why
6. Just Like You
7. Is this a Dream?
8. She Can't Understand
9. Hoping
10. Caroline
11. I Want to Tell You
Best
of '99-'06
Zip Records 2006
Our first release on Zip Records. Smash Palace was signed to
Zip after a noteworthy performance at the legendary Cavern Club in
Liverpool, England. This disc is a collection of tracks from the
first 4 CDs (plus some new tracks), since Smash Palace reformed in
1999.
Tracklisting:
1. Thinking About Her
2. Steal Her Thunder
3. Dime Store Lies
4. Juliet to Me
5. Tell Me What it Takes
6. Sooner or Later
7. Like I Do
8. Blue Eyes
9. Lucky Me
10. I'll Be There
11. Let Me Go
12. Death of Me
13. Try
14. Give You My Word
15. In My World Tonight
16. My New Sensation
Over the Top
Smash Palace Studios 2004
Steve and Brian recorded the follow-up to "Unlocked".
Brian only played on about half of this one. He got married and started
teaching art at a nearby university, so Steve was left to put the
rest of it together. The song "Stand
Beside Me Now" is one of Steve's favorite songs, which
they've never played live.
Tracklisting:
1. Steal Her Thunder
2. I'll Be There
3. Lucky Me
4. Wish I Knew How
5. Dime Store Lies
6. Ordinary World
7. Juliet to Me
8. One Way Track
9. It's Not Enough
10. Stand Beside Me
11. Beautiful Face
Unlocked
Smash Palace Studios 2001
This was recorded almost immediately after Fast Long Loud...almost
like it was the same record really. The band were really inspired
and the songs were coming very fast. As soon as one was written,
it got recorded. They were finally out and about playing live,
which was great to do again.
Tracklisting:
1. In My World Tonight
2. What You're Missing
3. Sooner or Later
4. A Million Miles Away
5. Tell Me What It Takes
6. The Way Love Has Made Us
7. Give You My Word
8. Looking For a Way
9. It's Not Me
10. Don't Throw It Away
11. Magical Moonlight
12. My New Sensation
Fast,
Long, Loud
Imagine Records 1999
The follow up to our self-titled debut, that only took 14 years
to make. Actually Brian and Steve had stopped playing together for
awhile. According to Steve "I
dragged him back into the music thing again... I bought some recording
gear set
it up in my house. Brian learned to play the drums and this is the
result. It's my favorite Smash Palace CD because of the way it was
recorded and the pleasure of working with Brian again."
Tracklisting:
1. Try
2. Turn Another Screw
3. Let Me Go
4. Everything You Bring
5. Death of Me
6. Another Man
7. It's All Because
8. Blue Eyes
9. Ancient Rhymes
10. The Love Has Just Begun
11. She's My Girl
12. Riverdale
Live
at Empire Rock Club
Recorded 1985
A vintage live recording of Smash Palace from the Empire Rock
Club in Philadelphia, PA. Broadcast on WMMR. The live show features
most of the songs on the first album plus 3 songs that were never
recorded before.
Tracklisting: 1.
Count the Days
2. Love Will Find A Way
3. Night of a Thousand Faces
4. Shining Eyes*
5. No Love Lost
6. Sisters of Spain*
7. Never Say No Again
8. Juliet to Me
9. Living on the Borderline
10. Pieces of My Heart
11. Lightning Strikes*
* these songs were never released
Smash
Palace
Epic Records 1985
Soon after leaving the band Quincy, Steve and Brian put together
Smash Palace and got signed to Epic Records. They recorded this one
over a 3 month period in Toronto, Canada. It was produced by Tom
Truemuth, with
Brian and Steve as co-producers. Mixed in NYC at Electric Lady
Studios and the Record Plant.
Looking back, Steve remembers "Brian
and I fought like crazy about the sound of the snare drum sound.
It was very fashionable in the 80's to have this huge snare sound...we
weren't into it but the record label won out on that one." Making
the MTV video for "Living on the Borderline" was the most fun...the
silly clothes and the big hair...what were we thinking?
Tracklisting:
1. Living on the Borderline
2. Count the Days
3. Love Will Find a Way
4. Never Say No Again
5. Juliet to Me
6. No Love Lost
7. A Night to Remember
8. Pieces of my Heart
9. Night of a Thousand Faces
Quincy
Columbia Records 1980
The self-titled release from Quincy, the Butler brothers first
band, signed to Columbia Records in 1980. They recorded one album and a
follow up EP in 1983.
Band members included Brian Butler (vocals), Stephen Butler (guitar
and vocals), Gerald Emerick (vocals and bass guitar), Wally Smith (keyboards)
and Bob Holden (drums).
Tracklisting:
1. Turn the Other Way Around
2. Critics' Choice
3. Don't Knock on My Door
4. Always in the News
5. Dime Store Lies
6. Can't Live in a Dream
7. Just a Tradedy
8. Stop Now
9. Grow Up
10. Roamin' Catholic
11. Stuck on You
12. Ordinary Town
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