SEA

Collection Contents

#		Title	Length
1		The Floor Of The Sea	2:41	Play
2		Three More Times	2:43	Play
3		Tender	2:40	Play
4		Showed Me	4:14	Play
5		Tall Tales	2:38	Play
6		What Can You Do (Demo)	4:09	Play
7		Temple Of Lies	4:34	Play
8		Grey Day Reign	4:33	Play
9		Celebrate The Enemy	5:24	Play
10		Growing Stronger	4:13	Play
11		High And Deep	4:33	Play
12		Something	4:12	Play
13		Funeral March	5:24	Play
14		Waiting Game	5:27	Play
15		Soviet	3:48	Play
16		In Ruins	2:17	Play
17		Same Cars Crashing	4:19	Play
18		Neimad	2:36	Play
19		Horizon	3:35	Play
20		Erased ...Me	3:23	Play
21		Useless	5:34	Play
22		Core	4:48	Play
23		Gettogether	4:35	Play
24		Martyr	5:28	Play
25		Fault	4:45	Play
26		Blinding	4:03	Play
27		Wahrheit	5:43	Play
28		Order+Joy	3:58	Play
29		Worldestroyed	4:36	Play
30		Nu Ideal	4:11	Play
31		Wrong	5:00	Play
32		Generation	5:12	Play
33		Scattered	3:55	Play
34		World	4:59	Play
35		All I Want	5:05	Play
36		NNiinnee (Hidden Track)	0:04	Play
37		Interview (Hidden Track)	5:24	Play

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SPECIAL "SUPER FANS" SALE PRICE!!! $9.99 !!!! (marked down from $13.99! for a super limited time!)
2 CDS of CROC SHOP's recorded output from 1987-2004
CD ONE 1987-1998 CD TWO 1999-2004 35 Tracks !!!
DCD Total Running Time: 02:35:04 -- THAT'S Over 2 1/2 Hours Of Music FOR LESS THAN $10 (For a limited time) !!!

Contains tracks produced by: Dave Fielding (Chameleons UK), Chris Randall (SMG), and Mick Hale + vMarkus (Croc Shop), & previously released on: Metropolis, Susstones & Tinman.
7 tracks previously unreleased on cd: vinyl only, demo & new.


LINER NOTES:
Given that Croc Shop founder and driving force Mick Hale is a friend of long standing (dating back to his previous life as Mick London), as well as a former bandmate (in the conceptual Wire cover band, the Ex-Lion Tamers), I have avoided writing about the group through the years, lest my "objectivity" seem sacrificed. But the retrospective nature of CS.Sea begs for a reassessment of the band, and not only by this rock-roll Luddite: As the following 35 tracks amply illustrate,... Croc Shop has been an underground treasure for 17 years now (under many different guises, but driven primarily by Hale and his key co-conspirator v. Markus). Croc Shop have willfully carved out their own unyielding path through a twisted musical thicket that has seen them consume, conquer, and often reinvent elements of shoegazer rock, gothic ambient drone, crushing industrial noise, pulsating techno, pounding drum and bass, good ol'-fashioned disco sex groove music, and myriad other sounds, to arrive at something that is not only unique sonically (Hale's songs remain wonderfully melodic, soulful, and dare I say human - though I'm certain that's an adjective he'd disavow) and lyrically (far left of Ralph Nader, our hero's political views are needed now more than ever in these fascist times - and by the way, he'd like you to not eat meat), but ethically. That is to say that in these ever-more bought, sold, compromised, and commodified times, Croc Shop remains the rare group dedicated to its art, and careerism be damned. CS.Sea is a testament to just how potent that art has been, and hopefully will continue to be.

- Jim DeRogatis, pop music critic, The Chicago Sun-Times, and author: "Let It Blurt: Life and Times of Lester Bangs"; "Milk It (Musings On The Alternative Explosion)", and "Kalidescope Eyes" (Psychedellic Rock), Jim also appears on VH1 and does the "Sound Opinions" Radio & TV show(s) in Chicago.