Eat Plastic

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#		Title	Length
1		Introduction	0:24	Play
2		Commercials	5:30	Play
3		The Revolution Is Making Me Dizzy	3:53	Play
4		Alamogordo Testing	2:10	Play
5		The CEO	3:02	Play
6		Food In My Gut	3:14	Play
7		Stop and Go Traffic	1:43	Play
8		Goddess	4:00	Play
9		Amtrak Out of Orange County	1:44	Play
10		Lemming Sunset	6:08	Play
11		Alamogordo Testing (Operation Expose The Government Terrorists M	2:24	Play
12		Stop and Go Traffic (Stop The 9/11 Cover-up Mix)	1:45	Play

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"The album cover consists of an illustration of a man holding up two children (or two very small men) by the neck. This is the slightly-demented, slightly-sane world of Abel Ashes & The Runs, and Eat Plastic is an album that you'll either get or not. Fortunately, it's good (and original) enough to merit a number of listens.

When I listened to it for the first time, I was not sure what I was getting myself into. There are hints of Frank Zappa in there, in the guitar playing and the deep low voice that Abel Ashes uses in some of the songs, along with the humor. You can take the humor with a grain of salt, for the music on this CD (recorded between 1993 and 2006) is what will keep fans there and wanting to hear more. Or in a track like "The CEO", the guy is almost a dead ringer for Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening fame), and that alone is funny too, for here is Abel Ashes singing lyrics that make you want to laugh and yet does it in a deadpan voice.

What also makes these songs interesting is that he's a good storyteller, even if those stories seem to go anywhere and everywhere, not unlike Primus. It's a cartoon-like musical world , with the music just as animated, moving from weird guitar feedback and distortion to jazzy lounge. The album closes with two serious tracks which look into some of the 9/11 conspiracy theories that have been discussed, done with various soundbites from different sources. They are separated from the rest of the album but could have easily flowed well with the other material.

The songs can be open to interpretation, yet there's nothing left to the imagination with lyrics such as 'Here's some commercial advertisements/here's some commercials you stupid ass.' It's oddball when it wants to be (which is most of the time) and yet carries a bit of a smirk which leads me to believe they know exactly what they're doing. Impressive work." - DA BOOKMAN, The Run-Off Groove, MusicForAmerica.org, Eat Plastic revue 2006

The music, the concepts, it is all so good.The line about brocolli in 'Amtrak' caught me off guard and I almost guffawed coffee on my keyboard!Total satisfaction is achieved by listening to you. Beautiful, even if the underlying truths are very scary. MIKE GAITO 2006

Hilarious and brilliant stuff...and I gotta give accolades for your activism...kinda thought I was the only one out there mixing that level of awareness with music. Your songs remind me a lot of what I used to do when I was really Avant (before my testicles shriveled up and I started doing more "commercially viable" material). I hear a lot of Zappa, a bit of Zoogz Rift, and a dash of John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America (if you remember them...few do). JOHN LUDI 2006

Love the CEO. Stick it to the man! GREEDY JESUS 2006

Beefheart and Zappa blues are spectres behind The C.E.O. where a plucked electric guitar melody from Abel Ashes is transformed into a Mothers-like song about a CEO with the help of The Runs on drums, bass and piano. One vocal is described as creepy ass but to me that covers the lot - the music is good but I could bypass the lyrics and singing (which was always an issue with Zappa): anyway, it is mercifully short. AMPERSAND ETCETERA (Volume 3 Number 1)1999 Trummerflora 2 revue

a fantastically disturbing Foetus/Tragic Mulatto hybrid. EDWIN DECKER, SLAMM ( San Diegos Lifestyle and Music Magazine) January 13-26 1999 Trummerflora 2 revue

a Tom Waits/voice of doom hybrid PAM FOX, music writer for San Diego Reader describing Abel Ashes singing style in a 1999 Trummerflora 2 revue