Abecedarians (band)

Abecedarians were an American, Los Angeles-based post-punk trio, active in the mid to late 1980s. The lineup consisted of Chris Manecke (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Kevin Dolan (drums) and John Blake (bass). They specialized in sparse, guitar-driven post-punk, though their most well-known song, "Smiling Monarchs", is alternative dance in the vein of New Order, and was in fact mixed by that band's guitar player and vocalist, Bernard Sumner.[1]

For other uses, see Abecedarian (disambiguation).
Abecedarians
OriginLong Beach, California,  United States
GenresNew wave, experimental, post-punk
Years active1983-95
LabelsFactory, Caroline, Independent Project Records
Past membersChris Manecke
John Blake
Kevin Dolan

Discography

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Singles
  • "Smiling Monarchs" (6:34) / "Benway's Carnival" (5:08) (12", Factory UK FAC-117, April 1985)[3]

Albums
  • Eureka (mini-LP, Southwest Audio Reproductions 7-PV-50772, 1986)
    • Ghosts / Soil / Beneath The City Of The Hedonistic Bohemians // I Glide/ Mice & Coconut Tree / The Misery Of Cities
    • Reissued by Caroline (CAROL-1342, 1987) with different sleeve and "The Other Side Of The Fence" replacing "Beneath The City Of The Hedonistic Bohemians"
    • Reissued by Pylon (2012), CD and 2×LP: Ghosts / Soil / Beneath The City Of The Hedonistic Bohemians // I Glide / Mice & Coconut Tree / Misery Of Cities /// Smiling Monarchs / Benway's Carnival / Switch / Other Side Of The Fence // They Said Tomorrow / Wildflower / John's Pop / Spaghetti Western[4]
  • Resin (LP, Caroline CAROL-1343, 1988)
    • Dinner / Spaghetti Western / Where Whitie Ain't Allowed / Wild Flowers Grow From The Trash // Press Escape / Laugh At Yourself / Sufferin' Tarnation / Panic In Needle Park
  • AB-CD (CD, Caroline CAROL-CD-1343, 1988)[5]
    • Ghosts (6:42) / Soil (7:00) / The Other Side Of The Fence (4:09) / I Glide (7:32) / Mice & Coconut Tree (4:59) / Smiling Monarchs (6:48) / Dinner (4:49) / Spaghetti Western (6:25) / Where Whitie Ain't Allowed (3:54) / Press Escape (5:01) / Laugh At Yourself (3:37) / Surf Western (3:17) / Panic In Needle Park (6:55)
    • CD version of Resin with previously released tracks
  • The Other Side Of The Fence (2×10", Independent Project Records IP-031/032, 1990)
    • Beneath The City Of The Hedonistic Bohemians / Ghosts / John's Pop // Come Out / Classic / Spaghetti Western /// Switch / Where's Karen / Soil // The Other Side Of The Fence / Wildflower / They Said Tomorrow
    • early recordings, from 1983 to 1985

Compilation albums
  • "They Said Tomorrow" - L.A. Mantra II (cassette, Trance Port Tapes, 1984)
  • "They Said Tomorrow" - Scream: The Compilation LP, Geffen Records, 1987)
  • "Smiling Monarchs" - Hardest Hits Volume Two (CD, SPG Music Productions Ltd., 1992)
  • "Smiling Monarchs" - Voices In The Air (CD, Wavestation, 1993)
  • "Smiling Monarchs" - Too Young To Know, Too Wild To Care...1978–1992 The Factory Story Part One (CD, London, 1997)
  • "Smiling Monarchs" - Auteur Labels: Factory Records 1984 (CD, Les Temps Modernes, 2009)
  • "Benway's Carnival" - Auteur Labels: Independent Project Records (CD, Les Temps Modernes, 2010)

Appearances
  • "Soil" (instrumental edit) - Appears as a track accompanying the 'Waimea Bay' bigwave contest (Billabong Pro) section of the surf film Billabong: Surf Into Summer (1986/87) at approx 19:48 mins in. (Other artists included in the film include TSOL and Agent Orange)
gollark: lyric badhis purging of <#614050573167362079> made me sadlyric badhis poor management during his long reign drove me mad
gollark: Yes, anarchy is bad, bees will be deployed, etcetera.
gollark: No. Deploying counterbees.
gollark: (warning:Do not bring monopole matter into contact with normal matter.Do not gather monopole matter into dense configurations: collapse into a black hole will occur even if the configuration is structurally stable.Construction of monopole matter may require star deconstruction and megascale structures.See your local physics provider for more information and local availibility.)
gollark: THE KNOWLEDGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF UNLEASHING INDESCRIBABLE HORRORS THAT SHATTER YOUR PSYCHE AND SET YOUR MIND ADRIFT IN THE UNKNOWABLY INFINITE COSMOS.

References
  1. "80's Music Rules ~ Criminally Underrated Artists/ Bands ~ Abecedarians". Rave-and-roll.com. February 22, 2009.
  2. "Abecedarians". Discogs.com.
  3. "Abecedarians - Smiling Monarchs". Discogs.com.
  5. "Abecedarians - AB-CD". Discogs.com.
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