THE MOLDY PEACHES – Unreleased Cutz & Live jamz (1994-2002)
As if lo-fi recording wasn’t enough, these New York kids have released 55 tracks of live recordings plus some unreleased material. Although it’s a bit annoying that there are often 3 to 4 live versions of the same song, it’s evident that they had a lot of fun on tour playing their comical indie pop and country, with a dirtier edge especially in the earlier recordings (Disc A). In general, Disc B is better recorded and shows them with a tighter band, which doesn’t quite work for their aesthetic (the same thing happened to ween!). Despite the fact that they could have reduced this to one CD, there are some great catchy, cute, funny, and rockin’ songs here. Think also of the Magnetic Fields, sometimes.
DISC A - pretty/cute: 4, 6, 23, 31. raucous: 7, 13.
DISC B – 19, 2, 7, 11.


here is a rather useless breakdown:
DISC A
pretty/cute: 4, 6, 23, 31. raucous: 7, 13
1. catchy mid-tempo spy-tune, silly “pump it, get funky “
2. sample
3. sample
4. cute, sad lo-fi voice and guitar
5. lo-fi, drunken shouting
6. a sweet, looking at the horizon song.
7. garage band type recording a la sebadoh
8. upbeat dirty indie pop song
9. quiet lo-fi country
10. cute duet with slow keyboards
11. upbeat, dirty poppy punk
12. bad recording, poppy punk
13. upbeat poppy punk
14. live version of #5
15. cover of big girls don’t cry
16. FCC, ska + drum machine
17. slow, drunken and angry
18. FCC, lo-fi indie pop song
19. sloppier, drunker version of #13
20. band intro
21. nice sloppy duet. vaguely slits?
22. talking
23. sesame street level cuteness, duet
24. catchy call and response
25. country duet
26. quiet recording, more sloppy!
27. sweet, lo-fi country
28. dirty rockabilly feel
29. cute duet a la late 1960s
30. alt-country
31. FCC, funny acoustic
32. FCC, rockin’ in a bad way


DISC B – 19, 2, 7, 11
1. upbeat indie pop
2. their big pop single live
3. FCC, also on disc A #31
4. big sloppy sound ~ ween
5. better on disc A #29
6. quiet band, too together for my tastes
7. catchy call and response
8. slow pretty indie
9. sweet country duet
10. audience singing
11. poppy punk, female vox
12. upbeat alt-country
13. funny, alt-country
14. another version of #2
15. some voices
16. band intro
17. upbeat, hard rockabilly
18. FCC, see track 3
19. cute midtemp alt-country
20. quiet piano half done feel
21. cover of spin doctors
22. straight, midtempo indie pop
23. nice but very short