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Teen-Beat 283.

Bells Of

3's Company

Quindocqua Sunrise
Ruby Red
No One
Aeschylus
Tell Me to Go
Re-evolve in Purgatory
You're Not My Friend
Slip Slide
Heart Attack
Bypass

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LINER NOTES

PLAYERS

Lawrence McDonald, vocals, guitar, keyboards

Fernando "Nate" Carr, drums

Ian "Bass" Michaels, bass

GUEST PLAYERS

Matt Ellis, vocal and arrangement on 2 and 10

Alex Hall, guitar and keyboard on 10

Scott Otter, bass on 8

Geoff Turner, keyboard on 8

PRODUCED BY

Lawrence McDonald

RECORDED BY

Lawrence McDonald,

Alex Hall,

and Geoff Turner

at Creative Advance,

Super Chief,

and Quindocqua.

MIXED AT

Super Chief Studios

(tracks 2, 5, 7, 9, 10)

WGNS, Washington, D.C., USA

(tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8)

COVER ILLUSTRATIONS

Peter Quinn

COVER DESIGN

Joel Gwadz

DESIGN PRODUCTION

Rob Myers

PHOTOGRAPHY

Tom Allnutt,

and Joel Gwadz

ET CETERA

All songs written by Lawrence McDonald (©2000 Creative Advance Music.
except "Bypass" written by Matt Ellis, Lawrence McDonald, and Alex Hall.

The lyrics to the songs are printed in the booklet.

REVIEW

Math rock + jazzy indie-pop (keyboards + electronic toys) = Bells Of, the sporadic and eclectic project of warm-fuzzy musician Lawrence McDonald. If you're counting, the new Bells Of record, 3's Company, is actually the band's fourth release in a series beginning in 1992: Eleven:Eleven came first, followed by Two Dos Or Not 2? in '94 and Four Your Listening Pleasure in '98. Why the chronological discrepancy? The Teenbeat Records Web site is fairly frank on the topic - the long-lost third record was originally slated for a '97 release but was held hostage by the recording studio while certain bills were sorted out. But a count of 1, 2, 4, 3 is still pretty much in line with the Bells Of oeuvre, in which a quirky brew of blissfully mismatched pop and punk variables never seems to behave. McDonald and friends perform tonight with Teenbeat label mate Johnny Cohen at 9 p.m. at the Galaxy Hut, 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Free.

- Colin Bane, Washington City Paper.

RELEASE DATE

October 30, 2000

FORMAT

compact disc

LENGTH

CD:
28 minutes, 24 seconds

CATALOGUE No.

Teen-Beat 283

DETAILS

600 pressed.

INSERT:
6-page folder and tray card (outside colour and inside black and white).

JEWEL CASE:
with white tray.

LABEL:
yellow, gray and black.

Printed and pressed by
Bellwether Mfg., Bloomington, Indiana (CDs pressed by Cinram).

DISCOGRAPHY

ALBUMS

00/85
11:11
Two Dos or Not 2
3's Company
Four Your Listening Pleasure
Young McDonald & the 5 Season Farmers

COMPILATIONS

Teen-Beat Fifty
Wakefield: Volume 1
Wakefield: The Teen-Beat Boxed Set
1996 Teenbeat Sampler
1997 Teenbeat Sampler
2001 Teenbeat Sampler
2002 Teenbeat Sampler
2003 Teenbeat Sampler
Teen-Beat 20th Commemorative
Teen-Beat No.1 Record Label
Teen-Beat Holiday Card 2010/2011

ALSO

Teen-Beat's Fifth Anniversary
One-sided vinyl LP (not released)
Teen-Beat 11th Anniversary Celebrations
Bells Of tee-shirt
Teen-Beat Sweet 16th Anniversary Celebrations

SONGS

Aeschylus
After Rain
All My Favorite Friends
Aphrodite
Bittersweet
Bluebird, White Dwarf
Bypass
Chess
The Commission of Captain Cook
Confuser
Cornrows
Deceptive Paradise
Down
Easy
Ephemeral
Five
Flight
The Ghost of Susan Ward
Heart Attack
History
In the Morning
In Stone
Indifferent Smile
Like in Movies
Live as You Please
Long Daze
Lost
Lullaby
Message to a Newborn
Mobius
Mrs. N
New Romance Song
No One
Off White
One Shot
Patowmack
Quindocqua Sunrise
Quite Waiting for June
Re-evolve in Purgatory
Resolve
Ruby Red
Secret Messenger
Slip Slide
Star and Sun
Strange Pair
Talk a Lot
Tell Me to Go
Thoughts on a Wake
Tony Thai-Man in Memoriam
Untied
Wallenda
Winter Addiction
Winter Wonders
Within Time
You're Not My Friend