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#		Title	Length
1		Facelift	2:49	Play
2		The Arabic Russian Disco Song	4:25	Play
3		Alone in your Arms	2:58	Play
4		It's not a Cookie Mother	4:49	Play
5		Wax Apples	2:21	Play
6		Prom Queen Pipebomb	6:43	Play
7		Kingdom Come	2:48	Play
8		The Lines	3:57	Play
9		Fabric	4:18	Play
10		Pretty Me	3:56	Play
11		Incognito Mosquito	3:23	Play
12		Heroin Pie	3:56	Play

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Description

The Vanities live inside a wishing well, breaking from their popular pastime of disassembling dreams just long enough to create catchy, punchy and unpredictable hard rock that crosses genres more often than founder Robert Anthony brushes his teeth (an almost obsessive compulsive habit). Sometimes compared to the stylistic synthesis of Mr. Bungle, The Pixies, Jesus Lizard, and Zappa, this band of Asbury Park, NJ maestros reaches further into pop territory than these acts, concocting pretty melodies and taut harmonies to drape over the curiously hard tunes. But make no mistake. This is not another band of pretty boys.

Rather, the Vanities delve into the sort of audio-psychosis that has, historically, fueled the worlds most mad and memorable tunesmiths. The songs themselves, featuring surreal and thought-provoking lyrics, drive even the most rhythmically challenged listeners to bob their heads while attempting to crack the enigmatic code in which Anthony designs his visionary poetry. In the words of one unnamed critic Its got a good beat and you can screw to it. That, if memory serves correctly, has traditionally defined true rock and roll, but upon hearing their independent releases, these guys are capable of so much more.

Crawling up from the well for the first time in 2001, the band released a full-length eponymous album consisting of ten songs, among them Elated and Shaky Hands and Cheap Romance, both of which received nominal, listener request-driven airplay on the nationally syndicated WRAT hard rock station. Produced and engineered with crystal clear precision by main songwriter Anthony, the ambitious disc only hinted at the potency of its follow-up release (also self-titled), features 12 songs, including the infectiously catchy Wax Apples, Prom Queen Pipe-bomb and Heroin Pie. The first album, recorded with a 16-track recorder in the Vanities' basement studio, was available for free at live shows, in venues as varied as The Stone Pony, The Saint, CBGB's, Continental, Connections, The Love Sexy, Chubby's, and the Acme Underground, and through the bands amusing website, http://www.thevanities.net (which also offers t-shirts and matchbooks to admirers from NJ to Katmandu).

The Vanities (named after their favorite piece of bathroom furniture) consist of Robert Anthony on rhythm guitar and lead vocals, Joe C (a glass-door smashing madman) playing bass, Joe R (who is currently in Qatar preparing to defend our nation) tearing it up on lead guitar, and Little John beating the ever living crap out of his drums like a human metronome on angel dust. They are currently looking for a stray wormhole that leads back to Earth, and a record label to call home. Should they find their way to your town, please give a warm hand and a cold glass of gin to the Vanities. Whether rocking the pants off of a club full of good people or fighting to save the free world from the clutches of middle-east dictators, the Vanities are schizophrenic Rock and Roll madness personified.