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Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
Studio album by
Truly
ReleasedJune 20, 1995[1]
Recorded1992–1994
Studio
Genre
Length71:43
Label
Producer
Truly chronology
Heart and Lungs
(1991) 		Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
(1995) 		Feeling You Up
(1997)
Singles from Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
  1. "Blue Flame Ford"
    Released: 1995

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is the debut studio album by the American rock band Truly, released in 1995 through Capitol Records imprint Revolution.[2][3] The vinyl edition was handled by Sub Pop.[1] Truly later released a 2020 remaster of the album on their Bandcamp page with the track "Aliens on Alcohol" being restored to the track listing.

Concept[edit]

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is loosely a concept album, about a comatose kid "reliving a past summer of grandeur."[1]

Release and reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Drowned in Sound9/10[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
Kerrang![7]

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma was released in the United States through Capitol/Revolution on June 20, 1995.[1] The album was released in Europe by Parlophone Records in February 1996,[8] following criticism from Kerrang! over its lack of availability in the UK in November 1995.[7][9]

The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote that the album "mixes hard rock with the atmospheric early '70s psychedelia of Pink Floyd."[10] MTV called it "the great psychedelic hard rock rush of the year."[11] Trouser Press wrote: "Heavy but never bludgeoning, melodic but never cheesy, excessive but never ridiculous, Fast Stories is an extended trip into several of rock’s outer dimensions."[12]

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a hard-hitting, insistent record that occasionally overreached in its attempts to distance itself from its contemporaries."[6] Loudwire ranked the album at twenty-sixth in their list of "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time".[13] Kerrang! wrote that Fast Stories...from Kid Coma "remains a genuinely vital album, and quite possibly the [grunge] genre’s swan song."[14] Louder Sound named the album in their list of "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums".[15]

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
  2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
  3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
  4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
  5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
  6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
  7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
  8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
  9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
  10. "Virtually" - 4:48
  11. "So Strange" - 5:06
  12. "Strangling" - 5:33
  13. "Chlorine" - 11:27

12″ vinyl track listing / Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (2020 Remaster) track listing[edit]

  1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
  2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
  3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
  4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
  5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
  6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
  7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
  8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
  9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
  10. "Aliens on Alcohol" - 4:51
  11. "Virtually" - 4:48
  12. "So Strange" - 5:06
  13. "Strangling" - 5:33
  14. "Chlorine" - 11:27

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Sprague, David (May 13, 1995). "Capitol Shows Faith In Seattle's Truly". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 19. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 20. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  2. ^ Adams, Gregory (May 14, 2015). "'Singles' Soundtrack to Get Expanded Reissue?". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  3. ^ Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-1-62788-379-5.
  4. ^ Kurutz, Steve. "Fast Stories...from Kid Coma - Truly | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
  5. ^ Lancaster, Nick (May 5, 2001). "Truly - Fast Stories... From Kid Coma". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
  6. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. MUZE. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  7. ^ a b Dowse, Clare (November 18, 1995). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 572. EMAP. p. 44.
  8. ^ Anon. (February 3, 1996). "Ad Focus" (PDF). Music Week: 28. Retrieved April 10, 2024 – via worldradiohistory.com.
  9. ^ Evans, Liz (December 2, 1995). "Something to Believe In". Kerrang!. No. 574. EMAP. pp. 40–41.
  10. ^ "High-powered Truly plays Shark Club". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 10 June 1995. p. 9D.
  11. ^ "Truly Are Truly Great". MTV. June 8, 1995. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  12. ^ Aswad, Jem; Robbins, Ira. "Truly". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  13. ^ "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time". Loudwire. May 24, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
  14. ^ "10 lesser known grunge albums you should own". Kerrang!. January 5, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
  15. ^ Leivers, Dannii (June 15, 2020). "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums". Louder Sound. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
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