Fast Stories...from Kid Coma

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
Studio album by Truly
Released	June 20, 1995
Recorded	1992–1994
Studio	Avast!; Bad Animals; Isolation; The Ranch; Robert Lang (Seattle); Magic Shop (New York City);
Genre	Grunge; hard rock; psychedelic rock;
Length	71:43
Label	Revolution; Capitol; Sub Pop;
Producer	Adam Kasper; John Agnello; Jon Auer; Truly;
Truly chronology
Singles from Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
	"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

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

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
Drowned in Sound	9/10^[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

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

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

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

Personnel

Truly

Mark Pickerel - drums
Robert Roth - vocals, guitar
Hiro Yamamoto - bass guitar

Additional personnel

Eamon Nordquist - guitar (tracks 11, 12, & 13)

Production

John Agnello - producer, mixing (tracks 1, 2, 9, & 11)
Jon Auer - producer (track 7)
Greg Calbi - mastering
Jon Dunleavy, Edward Douglas - engineering
Adam Kasper- producer, mixing (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 12, & 13)
Erin Kenny - recording

References

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