is just tooooooooo fuckin' good.

"She Still Loves Him" just slayed me.

why o why did this band break up.

Probably one of my favorite acts of the 90's.


If you haven't heard this album, you need to.

Never heard of them. RIYL?

Yeah, that album continues to shock me. I cannot believe somebody could craft songs that rich, and then pull off the instrumentation, the singing, etc. Very few bands had that many heavyweights (musically) and that much vision. Yeah, they pulled from Queen and the Beach Boys, but hot dammity is it good stuff.


Having said that, I prefer Spilt Milk. Joining A Fanclub cannot be fucked with.

Wow! I had forgotten how much I used to LOVE this album!

glad to see jfish getting mad props on this site.....

falkner worked on the first brendan benson album which is GREAT....

his newest working is magnet (mellow, but good)

I'll go with The Beatles, Squeeze, Big Star, Queen, and The Beach Boys.

So good DJ. I think you'll really enjoy them. If you want the albums, hit me on IM elementdalen

did he produce that new Magnet album? if so, props. love that album.

i just found my cassette version of this.
it had a gate cover almost like the back of a MAD magazine.

Busty and I were playing a Faulkner solo song one day at that bar where nobody ever paid attention, and some guy walked up singing along... Nobody in a random bar knows friggin Faulkner. After we got done, he said he was a huge fan, and had just seen him out in like Vegas or some such. I mean, it was normally a pleasant surprise when someone recognized the Jayhawks there.

or like that gig where those people knew EVERY fucking Guster song.

its weird what people know. i guess that's why we strived to do kinda off beat covers. I wish I had more archived audio of that shit. Fun stuff.

I like Spilt Milk more, but Bellybutton's good.

I may take you up on that later on. Thanks D.

Tis wierd indeed. 90% of the time there, it was just crickets unless you did like CCR or some shit. And CCR is about as close as we'd get to all that Brown Eyed Margaritaville bullshit. But man, when that one guy is there who knows who Travis or Pete Yorn or Ryan Adams is (and these are by no means "deep" artist for chrissake), it made it worth it to play there.

well...i think now that there are internet jukeboxes.....music is more out there...

i really dont find it that odd at all........its amazing what i hear at a variety of bars in my area. "common people" are just exposed to more stuff

Jellyfish were awesome. Roger Manning apparently is doing a solo record - he was playing at SXSW to preview it.

Manning also still plays in Beck's band as a side gig at times.

How weird this thread popped up - I've been on a serious Jellyfish kick for the past week or so.

Don't forget the Grays and Imperial Drag - not quite Jellyfish, but so many of the pieces that formed that puzzle that they hit on many Jellyfish moments in each. Of course, these are long out of print, but ID can at least be found cheap. The Grays, however . . . this thing's like gold, apparently.

Who has the Fan Club box set? I've never actually seen the real thing, being out of print before I'd heard of it, but I've had a copy for years. Disc 2, the live material from the Bellybutton tour, is absolutely astounding. I've also got a killer bootleg from the Spilt Milk tour.

All right, before anyone asks - yes, I'll YSI them, probably later tonight.

And what happened to Andy Sturmer? Why is he not out doing something? Did something happen when Jellyfish broke up that scared him off of performing in any capacity again? What a waste of a great voice.

Sturmer is doing production (puffy ami yumi and some other things) and some writing (couple songs off of Bleu's album Redhead).

Both albums are great but I prefer Spilt Milk.

Jason Falkner was on Bellybutton and went on to be in The Grays with Jon Brion who was on Spilt Milk. We all know what Jon Brion's gone on to do. Roger Manning went on with Imperial Drag and Moog Cookbook, Tim Smith went on to play bass with Sheryl Crow and The Umajets, and Sturmer went underground. They never headlined a tour. Doubt that they'll ever reunite.

RIYL: Queen, Beatles, Beach Boys, Raspberries

One of my all time favorite bands.

"Bye Bye Bye," "New Mistake," and "Russian Hills" are all stand out tracks from Spilt Milk imo.

Easily one of my top ten favorite bands of all time. I followed them on tour from Kansas City, Missouri, to Columbia, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri back on the Spilt Milk tour. I got an interview for my radio station, they all signed my copy (kinda gushes here). And even Antenna, who opened were great as well. I still have the purple tour t-shirt (which is way way way too small - it was even then, but I managed to wear it once or twice).

I've also got the Video collection on VHS of the Bellybutton era, not all of their videos, but enough to make me smile.

I've also got the Grays - I was just listening to it again this last weekend. It is good - even great in a few places, but not Jellyfish brilliant. I once saw them play the Hurricane here in Kansas City to a crowd of maybe 30. They were fucking amazing live, trading off instruments, trading off vocal duties, soloing like mad!!! They would have been interesting if they too had gotten off a second album like Jellyfish did.

Imperial Drag never did all that much for me actually. I've got it, but rarely listen.

I like Andy Sturmer's production work for Puffy Amiumi - they even covered "Joining A Fanclub" somewhat well (not really, but I've always had a thing for cute asian girls)

I like Spilt Milk more than Bellybutton, but both are simply amazing.

And If I won the 250 million dollar lottery, I'd pay them a whole hell of a lot of it to them to do it one more time. If Jellyfish (Sturmer and Manning basically), and Faulkner and Jon Brion to re-unite for a concert and to produce a new album of originals! Life would indeed be sweet if this happened! I'm giddy just contemplating it.

I like Jellyfish a lot and agree Spilt Milk is better than Bellybutton. I'll disagree with Jeff about the Grays though. I like the grays even more, perhaps even much more than Jellyfish. Antenna's a band I haven't heard anyone else mention in a long time. They were so great. I think Gordo's a fan too (I assume you're talking about John P. Strohm's band?).

I took an A&R class through UCLA's extension program about ten years ago, and got a chance to meet Falkner through it. We toured Sony Studios and Falkner meet us there and played a bunch of accoustic tunes for us off of the Grays album and one of his solo albums (Author Unknown I think).

One of the 2 professors was Randy Jackson who at the time was doing A&R for Sony. This was way before American Idol, but he used to always say what up dawg even back then.

These guys were on my "5 bands/artists that influence your musical tastes the most" list that we had here a while back. Great music.

can anyone YSI "bellybutton"
i just put on my tape and it sounds horrrrrrrible.

slow and warbly.

and now i NEED to hear it.

I have a few Jason Faulkner solo records and I like to pop them on now and again. Haven't spent enough time listening to jellyfish though. Should give them a chance when i get the time.