The Underwater Welders

I've been getting a lot of questions about the Underwater Welders. Some people want to know where they can buy earlier CDs, others want to know which CDs to buy, or which songs to download. Let me start by discussing their 2002 release, Music That's Good For You. It was in some ways innovative and brilliant, in other ways insipid. Recorded without a permit in Grand Central Station's men's room, it has that sense of immediacy that only illegal recording sessions can create. The echo effect, however, proved disastrous for some of the more lyrics-heavy songs, such as Why Not To Touch The Therumin and Leaning on a Standing Wall. The desperate listener can hear that a spider is inches away from Brookney's corpus colossum but can't make out which direction it's crawling (or the medication she's using, for that matter). Particularly frustrating was Woman Holding Cauliflower, during which one can only assume 7 men were using the urinals at the same time. Still, for people who enjoy recordings that straddle the line between live and studio, this one can't be missed. And the echo works great for Lonely Man Addresses Coat Hanger, adding a poignancy that was never there to begin with.