Crash Course in Science are an American post-punk band formed in 1979 in Philadelphia by Dale Feliciello, Mallory Yago and Michael Zodorozny. Thier raw, percussive sound influenced both techno and industrial music in the following decades
2024 LP
Near Marineland • Second Glance • It Cost's To Be Austere • No More Hollow Doors • Force The Habit • Someone Reads • Jump Over Barrels • Pompeii Spared • Fun Hair • In Your Own Backyard • Wishbone • Sputnik In Orbit
Released on Dark Entries Records with 4 bonus tracks in 20242017 LP
Some Change • Distant Drum • Fake Plastic • So Pantsed • Miscommunication • Drive • I'm Here to Tease • Passage • The Lightning • Chairs • I'm Here to Tease - CCIS Remix
Released on Electronic Emergencies2016 EP
Jump over Barrels Jump over Barrels - 1981 Demo Jump over Barrels - Charles Manier Remix Jump over Barrels - Early Rehearsal
Released on Dark Entries Records2014 EP
Cardboard Lamb Crashing Song Flying Turns Factory Forehead
Released on Dark Entries RecordsNew York/Philadelphia based synth-punk, electro-wave pioneers, Crash Course in Science have been making their distinctive noise-pop dance music for quite some time. Using primitive analog drum machines and homemade synthesizers, they released their first 7” single “Cakes in the Home” in 1979. Their darker follow-up release, the influential “Signals From Pier Thirteen”, originally came out in 1981. The latter contained the underground club hits “Cardboard Lamb” and “Flying Turns” “Cardboard Lamb” was the ‘inspirational basis’ for the massive 2002 club hit “Bucci Bag” by Andrea Doria, borrowing heavily from the original track. “Bucci Bag” has been used as a soundtrack for red carpet arrivals, on the television shows “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider,” and was also included in the soundtrack to “The Sopranos” video game. The original track “Cardboard Lamb” has been remixed by Vitalic and David Carretta and was released as a 12” single on Terence Fixmer’s Planète Rouge label in 2007. “Flying Turns” has been remixed by Terence Fixmer and Danton Eeprom and was released as a 12” single on Terence Fixmer’s Jupiter label in 2009. “Flying Turns” was also used as an, as of yet, un-credited sample by DJ Hell on his track “Follow You” from his 2003 “NY Muscle” album. Vinyl On Demand in Germany released the Crash Course in Science box set in the fall of 2009. This limited edition of 600 vinyl copies contained 3-LP’s and 1-7” single and sold out quickly. The box set marked the first appearance of the band’s previously unreleased debut album “Near Marineland”. Both “Near Marineland” and “Signals From Pier Thirteen” are now available for the first time on iTunes--as well as other digital music outlets--on the Schematic Records label Crash Course in Science’s music has been included on many compilation albums over the past ten years, the most notable being “The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One” released on Stones Throw / Minimal Wave in 2010, compiled by Minimal Wave founder Veronica Vasicka and Peanut Butter Wolf. In 2009 the band re-emerged as a live act performing in Europe & the US accompanied by original producer John Wicks and The Enchantress of Bioluminosity Andrea Beeman. The band completed a mini tour of the US in August 2009, sharing the bill with fellow Schematic Records label artist Adrian Bertolone aka Ay Fast Taken from CCIS Press Kit
It costs to be austere Walking across the great divide It ceased to be a bother But even through the final word Well, the door is locked, the key returned It costs to be austere (x6) They corralled it all away I hate to sign my name Along a dotted line To get on out of hеre Better than bеfore Just show me to the door It costs to be austere (x6) And if you haven't changed your mind I’ll stare and teach and bother you There is a place, another place For people just like you Why, you'll be so happy, yeah You won't know what to do It costs to be austere Yeah, buddy, austere Go ahead and play King Lear, I don’t care Butter, botcher, bull or steer Oh no, my god, to get me outta here When I get fucking better not be here Just get it outta here I want the tent to disappear I want the chair to disappear I want the tent to disappear I want the chair to disappear Only to disappear It costs to be austere (x12) I want that chair to disappear I want that chair to disappear Want that chair better disappear Better not be here 'Cause it costs to be austere
Someone reads You walk out And someone reads You step out And someone reads It doesn't matter If you don't want to 'Cause someone reads you I get annoyed When someone reads I get a pain in the neck When someone reads And I get billed When someone reads When someone reads me And if you choose to You may read And if you choose You may read But if you don't You may be saying That somеone reads me
Jump over barrels Can't you say that I didn't [?] You can't say that I didn't You can't say that I didn't [?] You can't say that I did not You try to make me jump over barrels You try to make me jump over barrels You try to make me go out with Carol (Carol? Oh no!) And I don't appreciate it at all [?] You can't say that I didn't [?] Can't say that I did not Thought something like a nine year [?] You can't say that I did not
Pompeii spared Walk across the faded square Inside the room Pompeii is spared Shift the plaster tile missed On the floor the radiator See the clock go round and round As tile chip up off the ground In the empty room Pompeii is spared You take your chances [?] chairs No power here, no idle chat No checks and mail, an empty room Pompeii is spared the news and there Is paper running off the walls A noise I notice down the halls
Cardboard lamb Cardboard lamb Racing down the track Cardboard on a rack Cardboard lamb Ticket on the train Cardboard on the brain Cardboard lamb
Flying Turns Lining up against the wall Release the railing you want fall You're at the nervous center It's not threatening at all You begin to spin around Take your hand, touch the ground It has to end somewhere Later you're all there Select the left or right Monitor the height You're adjusting slightly Knowing that you might Lining up against the wall Release the railing you want fall At the nervous center It's not threatening at all You begin to spin around Take your hand, touch the ground It has to end somewhere And later you're all there
Factory Forehead The length of your forehead You know not quite what I mean A matter of plastic was forced Somewhere in between You lowered it down They had it all over you When you were caught up Was someone standing but For you There were metal strips glowing and Hot wires burning underneath Watery eyes seeing But hardly Through the steam The sheet metal flew All throughout the dark room All someone said to me Was hurry put your coat on Well, okay Wе're moving out The length of your forеhead You know not quite what I mean A matter of plastic was forced Somewhere in between You lowered it down They had it all over you When you were caught up Was someone standing but For you There were metal strips glowing and Hot wires burning underneath Watery eyes seeing But hardly Through the steam Can't hear what you say My work condition's okay Only thing I fear Don't want to be left down here Well, okay We're moving out