Dave Cloud's Discography
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Pleasure
Before Business
Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
CD, Fire Records, 2008
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 On
their fourth album Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power deliver 15 brand
new tracks of dirty garage rock and deconstructed
pop. Diverse in style and subject matter, the album
includes the heavy "You
Don't Need Sex," the comical "Orgy," the contemplative
"Airplane Japan" and the galloping "Land
of a Thousand Dances" (with guest vocal by Nina Persson
of The Cardigans).
Perhaps more than any previous Dave Cloud album, Pleasure
Before Business showcases the musicianship and
arranging skills of core Gospel members Matt Bach, Ben Martin
and Matt Swanson.
The Cloud original "Hopelessly Addicted to You" is an
exhilarating spasm of barely-controlled chaos in which the band
propels Cloud through one of his most compelling vocal performances.
Their unhurried, experimental renditon of the
Bee Gees' "If I Can't Have You" masterfully breaks
down the disco classic into its essential melodic and emotional elements,
providing a fitting denouement to
the album.
Tracks (written by Cloud except
as indicated):
- You Don't Need Sex
- Land of a Thousand Dances [featuring Nina Persson] (Kenner)
- Hey! (You're Beautiful)
- Hopelessly Addicted to You
- Orgy
- Mary Jane (Curb/Brown)
- Rock Video
- Lightning Surge
- Yummy Yummy Yummy (Levine/Resnick)
- Just a Little (Durand/Elliot)
- Airplane Japan
- 50 Dollar
- Secret Wife
- Cosmetology
- If I Can't Have You (B. Gibb/M. Gibb/R. Gibb)
The musicians:
Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, words)
featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (guitar, drums)
Matt Swanson (bass guitar)
Ben Martin (drums)
Paul Booker (guitar)
Steve Poulton (guitar)
Brian Boling (trumpet)
with Tom George, Jeremy McCall and Cole Street;
additional guitars on "Orgy" by Alex McManus and William
Tyler; vocals by Nina Persson on "Land of a Thousand Dances."
Produced by Cloud, Bach and Swanson. Cover art by Bonsey.
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“Fetchingly
unhinged.”
— The Sunday Times |
“Kicks
unexpected ass.”
— NME |
“Out of time and out of tune, most songs sound like they are performed by sake-soaked Japanese businessmen on the bottom of an empty swimming pool.”
— AU Magazine |
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“Deserves
total worship.”
— Buzz |
“A modern classic in the making.”
— musicOMH.com |
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"Puff Rider" (Various
Production remix)
Various Production, featuring Dave Cloud
7" vinyl single, Fire Records, 2008 |
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 This
partnership between Fire Records and Various Production (Adam Phillips
and Ian Carter) is a "dancefloor-ready" remix of Dave Cloud's
funny/scary "rap" inspired
by a large, ferocious house cat. Cloud's
lo-fi original is on side B.
Also available as a digital download.
Cover art by Bonsey. |
“Deliciously warped 80s-styled old skool electrified mutant funk.”
— Losing Today |
“Terrifying beyond comprehension.”
— Drowned in Sound |
“Like a musical version of a Robert Crumb comic strip.”
— Norman Records |
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"You Don't Need Sex"
Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
7" vinyl single, Fire Records, 2007 |
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 In
the first single from the Pleasure Before Business LP,
Cloud and his Nashville gang blast out a dirty-ass garage riff declaring
sex as unnecessary. Whether Zen satori or conflicted sentiment (or both),
the pronouncement is further confused by the salivating B-side "Lavender
Clothes."
Also available as a digital download. |
“Packs a scuzz-rock wallop.”
— Boomkat |
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Sgt. Pepper with
a Little Help from His Friends
Varous artists
CD, MOJO Magazine, March 2007 |
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 MOJO
Magazine commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' 1967
album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with this track-for-track
alternative rock "remake."
Joining 14 other artists (among them Stephanie
Dosen, Fionn Regan and Echo & The Bunnymen), Dave Cloud & The
Gospel of Power offer
up a raw, psychedelic-garage version of "Lovely Rita," Paul
McCartney's ode to a "meter-maid."
» Available from Amazon.com |
Praise for "Lovely Rita". . .
“Garage
rock worthy of the Nuggets.”
— Sound Bites blog |
“So
disorienting [it's like] you're hearing it for the first time.”
— Toronto Star |
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Children are Fascinated by Fire v1.2 (Boomkat Exclusive)
Various artists
MP3 album, Fire Records, 2007 |
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Fire Records' third sampler album includes "Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox"
by Dave Cloud & The
Gospel of Power.
» Available from Fire
Records and Boomkat |
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Children are Fascinated by Fire v1.0
Various artists
CD and MP3 album, Fire Records, 2006 |
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 The
first Fire Records sampler includes two tracks from Dave Cloud & The
Gospel of Power: "Lavender Clothes" and "I'll Run the Jack
on You."
» Available from Fire
Records
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Napoleon of Temperance
Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power
2 CDs, Fire Records, 2006
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 Cloud's
first release on the Fire
Records label is a two-CD, 45-track retrospective collection
that resequences most of the tracks from Cloud's first two U.S. albums
(All
My Best and Songs
I Will Always Sing) and adds five previously-unreleased
tunes.
You can preview, purchase and download the entire Napoleon
of Temperance album or individual tracks from iTunes.
Tracks:
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Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox (Cloud)
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Puff Rider (Cloud/Crow)
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Lavender Clothes (Cloud)
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I'll Run the Jack on You (Cloud/Bach)
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You Missed a Damn Good Chance (Cloud/Crow)*
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Goin' to the Go Go (Wishman)
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Love Jones (Cloud/Swanson)
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Cool Water (Button/Cloud)
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Sleep All Day (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Swanson)
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Subliminal Face (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Parton)
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Fantastic Rage (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Swanson)
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Winter Winds (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Swanson)
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Bugle Call with Guitar (Cloud)
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Misengendered Mulatto Squandering Abeyance to Phantasmagoria (Cloud/Bach/Street)*
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When Everyone is Gone (Cloud/Crow/Bach)
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Sing 9 and 90 (Cloud)
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Motorcycle (Cloud)
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Summer Holiday (Cloud)
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Living in Your Love (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Friedman)
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Booty Shoe II (Cloud)
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Save the Last Dance for Me (Cloud/Button)
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Sudden Stop (Cloud/Swanson)*
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Belinda Purvis (Cloud/Bach/Street/Swanson)*
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Eight Miles High (Clark/Crosby/McGuinn)
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Heatwave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)
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All Day Music (War)
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Our Love (Don't Throw it all Away) (Gibb/Weaver)
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How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (Gibb/Gibb)*
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I'm into Something Good (King/Goffin)
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You Can't Lose (Cloud/Bach)
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Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan)
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Sifu Bruce Lee (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
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Get Down Tonight (Casey/Finch)
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Warmth of the Sun (Wilson/Love)
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Young Love (Cartey/Joyner)
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Me and Mrs. Jones (Gamble/Gilbert/Huff)
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Let's Spend the Night Together (Jagger/Richards)
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Wild One (Lowe/Mann/Appel)
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It Ain't Nothing to Me (unknown)
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Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
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Geronimo (Cloud/Bach/Swanson)
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Icy Cold Brew (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
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Green Fields (Cloud/Bach/Boling)
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Teenage Bossman (Cloud/Bach)
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Evil Dracula Man (Cloud/Bach)
* previously unreleased
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“[Achieves]
a transcendental psychedelic primitivism. Four stars.”
— The Sunday Times |
“There's no escaping the voice of Dave Cloud—it's one of the most mashed things
since Smash.
. . . [He's] the king of vocal overdub. ”
— Gigwise.com |
“If
an evening in a downmarket American roadhouse with an upmarket, once-in-a-lifetime
combo is what we're after, then we have it here.”
— Unpeeled |
“Lo-fi blues and off-the-wall music delivered with the kind of conviction that's rare these days.”
— Norman Records (UK) |
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Keep Mother, Vol. 2: C & D
Dave Cloud (split with Matthew
Bayot)
Limited edition 10" vinyl maxi-single, Fire Records, 2006 |
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 The
second volume in the Keep
Mother 10" Vinyl
Series includes two songs: Dave Cloud's
"All The Same" and Matthew
Bayot's "Carousel".
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All My Best
Dave Cloud [with The Gospel of Power]
CD, Thee Swan Recording Company, 2004 |
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 On
his second album Dave
Cloud invokes the
great trilogy of Girls, Motorcycles and Money, while continuing his lo-fi
exploration of carnal hedonism. Includes "Lavender
Clothes," "Puff
Rider," "Love Jones" and 19 other tunes. Features Dave's band The Gospel
of Power.
All My Best is available from:
Tracks:
- Hey Baby! Let's Get Away (Cloud/Crow) (This
song is not
available on any other album)
- Get Down Tonight (Casey/Finch)
- Heatwave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)
- Goin' to the Go Go (Wishman)
- Cool Water (Button/Cloud)
- Save the Last Dance for Me (Cloud/Button)
- Motorcycle (Cloud) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Sing 9 and 90 (Cloud)
- Warmth of the Sun (Wilson/Love)
- Bugle Call with Guitar (Cloud)
- Lavender Clothes (Cloud) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Young Love (Cartey/Joyner)
- Booty Shoe II (Cloud)
- Love Jones (Cloud/Swanson) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Me and Mrs. Jones (Gamble/Gilbert/Huff)
- Puff Rider (Cloud/Crow) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- You Can't Lose (Cloud/Bach)
- Let's Spend the Night Together (Jagger/Richards)
- Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox (Cloud)
- Summer Holiday (Cloud)
- All Day Music (War)
- Evil Dracula Man (Cloud/Bach)
The musicians:
Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, piano, bugle, organ,
words)
featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (guitars, drums)
Paul Booker (guitar)
Tony Crow (keyboards and programming)
Matt Swanson (bass guitar, piano)
Matt Button
(guitar)
Ben Martin (drums)
Laurel Parton (drums)
Brian Boling (horns)
Produced by Cloud and Swanson.
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“A
mix of originals and covers that translate a love of '60s and '70s
rock and soul through the lens of punk and experimentation.”
— Nashville Scene |
“Cloud's
second CD manages to eclipse the eccentricities of the first.
[It] includes an inspired treatment of War's 'All Day Music' that
transforms the original into a vibrating blur of funked-up warbling
exotica.”
— The Wire |
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A Working Stiff
Christmas:
15 Years at Springwater
Various artists
CD, Tiny Rig Records, 2000 |
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 This
compilation of holiday songs features several artists who
regularly played at the "Working Stiff Jamboree" held at Nashville's favorite
dive bar—Springwater.
Dave Cloud & The Gospel
of Power contribute "Carol of the Bells." The CD includes tracks
by The Cherry Blossoms and Lambchop.
» Available from Amazon.com and
The Cherry Blossoms |
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Dave Cloud Presents. . . Songs I Will Always
Sing
Dave Cloud [with The Gospel of Power]
CD, Thee Swan Recording Company/Bloodsucker Records, 1999
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 Dave Cloud had been performing in Nashville music clubs for over 20 years before finally recording his first album in 1999. An international underground hit, Dave's debut includes the lo-fi classics "I'll Run the Jack on You," "Subliminal Face" and "Eight Miles High." Features Dave's band The Gospel of Power.
Copies of this seminal debut
CD are still available from Thee Swan Recording Company:
Tracks:
- I'll Run the Jack on You (Cloud/Bach) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Subliminal Face (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Parton) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Fantastic Rage (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Swanson)
- I'm into Something Good (King/Goffin)
- Sleep All Day (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Swanson)
- Teenage Bossman (Cloud/Bach) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Eight Miles High (Clark/Crosby/McGuinn)
- It Ain't Nothing to Me (unknown)
- Green Fields (Cloud/Bach/Boling)
- Living in Your Love (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Friedman) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
- Wild One (Lowe/Mann/Appel)
- Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan)
- Sifu Bruce Lee (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
- Winter Winds (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Swanson)
- Geronimo (Cloud/Bach/Swanson)
- Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
- When Everyone is Gone (Cloud/Crow/Bach)
- Our Love (Don't Throw it all Away) (Gibb/Weaver)
- Icy Cold Brew (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
The musicians:
Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, piano, words)
featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (bass, drums, guitars, Casio)
Brian Boling (horns)
Paul Booker (guitar)
and
Laurel Parton (drums on "Subliminal Face")
Dave Freidman (bass on "Living in Your Love")
Matt Swanson (Casio on "Fantastic Rage" and "Sleep All Day")
Tony Crow (programming on "Eight Miles High" and "When Everyone is
Gone")
John Elliot (programming on "Geronimo")
Produced by Matt Swanson.
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“Eccentrically hooky and perversely seductive.”
— Nashville Scene |
“The world might
not be ready for it.”
— Popshot.net |
“At once droning, dissonant, and strangely catchy.”
— Nashville Scene |
“Cloud's
sound alternates between revved-up garage band grind and a slack-stringed
acoustic freestyle fumble. His laconic treatment of the Byrds' 'Eight
Miles High' pulls the soaring electrified drug anthem back to earth with
a thud and transforms it into a hymn for a hangover.”
— The Wire |
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