torpedo town

in the transition from junior high to high school, brendan bellomo and i thought it would be a good idea to start a rap rock group.

the self-titled is regarded as the most memorable of the three official torpedo town records. it has the most energy and the most unique sound of the three. this due to having almost all the sound clip and distort in the mix, and the unconventional rhythm tracks that barely resemble drums. another point of interest is the lyrics, which appear to have almost no meaning and tend to have made-up words thrown in. originally this record was to have fifty tracks, but many of the songs were cut because they weren't good enough. many of these tracks ended up later on "expelled from torpedo town".

torpedo town - torpedo town

1. no tomorrow
2. extra pesto
3. turn it out
4. all over the stage
5. celadon
6. torpedo power
7. excursion museums
8. backtrack
9. rampage pig
10. time your rhymes tight
11. devilish mask
12. the old tradition style
13. billy rand
14. market set go
15. with their guns and their horses
16. gettin' on downtown
17. feel the noise
18. quel to your spell
19. bees to the knees
20. too hot to handle
21. drop the water
22. look out
23. come on!
24. the blues
25. under the native sun
26. infiltrate the nation
27. right between the eyes
28. voodoo in a bowl
29. wooden lullaby
30. negative insights

goat cheese galactic is a bit more straight forward than "torpedo town", and recorded much cleaner. there are some great tracks here, but it does lack some of the energy that the first one does. there is less hard rock influence making this album more weighted toward the hip hop side.

torpedo town - goat cheese galactic

1. the new style
2. it's the thought that counts
3. system of chaos
4. sheep gambling
5. down the wire
6. the fearless
7. self-service
8. let it flow
9. instrumental town
10. special presentation
11. the enemy
12. homogenization of the culture
13. on the run again
14. jam
15. left alone
16. rampage pig
17. take it to the waffle
18. drifting ships
19. it's all irrelevant
20. microphone, a weapon

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chronicles is the third and final official record from torpedo town. there are many solid songs, but in all truth it has an unfinished sounding quality because many of the songs are instrumental and there is a lack of drums throughout many of the songs. torpedo town basically lost steam before this album was over but completed it nonetheless. as torpedo town progressed, the albums transformed to be more and more political, and this record is at the height of that transformation. there was still a lot of room for silly tracks though, so it's still a great listen when you're not feeling the political spirit.

torpedo town - chronicles

1. underground sound
2. twisted justice
3. the only way to be lovin'
4. optimystical
5. nitrous can
6. was it glory?
7. efficiently spoken
8. special presentation
9. understand me?
10. sheep gambling
11. expensive senselessness
12. nice and slow
13. when religion demands destruction
14. paper or plastic?
15. ten four
16. traversing the alps... in a boat!
17. jam
18. the new style (remix)





many more recordings have been made throughout the torpedo town career. here is a list of unofficial albums:

kingdom of fleas - the very beginnings of torpedo town recorded on a video camera. some out-takes from these sessions are seen in the film "the anthology"

eggs and sheep - early analog recordings made by bouncing from tape player to tape player for multitracking purposes

on the flowed episode - analog recording of freestyles with a story-telling-style approach. a true gem for its entertainment quality

tapestry on prison walls - another video camera session with only guitar and vocals. the most punk sounding of all the recordings

expelled from torpedo town - contains many unreleased numbers from the self-title record.

junkyard odyssey - this one is still under construction. over the years, we made around sixteen cds of freestyled material. we're not making any new material, but i'm taking some of those recordings and adding more instruments and processing them to sound more professional. the results, so far, have been possibly some of the most entertaining torpedo town material to date