Newsboy Legion - IKE (1998)

Released 1998 on Smiley Jones (SJ001)

Newsboy Legion is:
Mike Coleman
Kelly Shane

Additional guitar supplied by:
Bob Anthony (Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Chris Gissendanner (Track 18)


"This group released one of the best records to ever come out of the pines of North Florida... The Legion is smart, crafty, fun and intelligent. All the things that make a band destined to fail in America."
-- Tallahassee Democrat

"A sound like the one constructed by Newsboy Legion is nigh impossible to encapsulate in these puny things we call words."
-- Florida Flambeau

"... a melting pot of of crazy ideas ... garage operettas? ... destroyed pop? ... somehow between ideas "invented" by Alex Chilton and Jonathan Richman ... fun release, highly entertaining and listenable!! ...no way to define that; completely unique!"
-- Lord Litter

"...putting the record on the stereo feels like slipping into a comfortable bath of warm Jello."
-- Break Magazine

  1. Pale, Wan and Gone
  2. Smile
  3. Life in the Stars
  4. Whatever Is Coming toVisit / White and Pasty
  5. Betty + Veronica
  6. Mystical Instore
  7. A Gentle Monster of Our New Mythology
  8. !
  9. Dinner Date
  10. Orgone
  11. Curse of the Blood Futon
  12. Newsboy Legion
  13. Cement Redux
  14. Monkeychild II
  15. Baywatch/Oral
  16. Tommy Tommorrow
  17. My Favorite Guru
  18. Twilight of the Puppets- Part1
    1. Hello
    2. Don't Fuck With the Puppet
    3. Puppet Memories
    4. American Flag Unfurled
    5. Nebulous Nebula
    6. Meat Service
    7. Smiley Speaks
    8. Routing Tools
    9. 5 Long Years (The Lonely Alien)
  19. Bones on Drums


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