May 20, 2009

Christopher Robin 7"

A long time ago a friend told me about a mix-tape competition he was having with a buddy of his. It wasn't just any mix-tape competition... it was an EMO mixtape competition. They had an point-scoring system, with points going towards cool old-school emo cliches like dueling male/female vocals, silk-screened record covers, poorly recorded, bands that could barely play their instruments, being able to list if people are ex-members of ____ band (usually from a straight edge hardcore band), or lyric inserts with over-explanation of song meanings. My friend told me that his A-card was when he pulled out his Christopher Robin 7". It's truly a good one - emo in the vein of Indian Summer or In/Humanity, not poppy stuff like Sunny Day Real Estate or Cap'n Jazz - chaotic but not formless, clearly full of passion but not saccharine or overdramatic (if you like that kind of emo, check out Bob Tilton), and yep it's poorly recorded.
I gotta say, I love this record. Christopher Robin was a Seattle band that played a bunch of house shows, and released only this 7" and one song on a compilation (Universal Choking Sign comp on Excursion Records).


enjoy, buddies.
download: http://www.mediafire.com/?izw0wn2yjid

6 comments:

insideabox said...

I have this already, do you know what year it was released? (I mention that I have it already just in case you have the year embedded in the tags and you don't think I'm some idiot that can't read ID3 tags)

Benj said...

I think it was from 1993 or 94. Not too sure, though. They preceeded Behead The Prophet No Lord Shall Live, which had a member of Christopher Robin or two.

Scott Goodwin said...

Avalon Kalin from this band was an early drummer for Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre, as well as a gaggle of other Portland sub-punk art rock bands, as well.

Lizandra said...

hi, great blog!! is the guy in your profile picture named nick? he had a punk band like 7 years ago, he was the drummer. the name of the band was called murmur also lived in seatle.

thanx

lisa aka looking for a old friend.

Alex said...

this 7" was actually repressed (in 1994 or 1995?) on the florida label Valrico Records.

thanks for this dude!

sweet baby jaysus said...

it was originally released on repercussion records in 1994.