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====== Love Coma ======

Alternative Rock\\
San Antonio, Texas, USA

"[[Chris Taylor]] formed the band Love Coma in 1992 and became a pseudo famous garage band that toured and travelled all over the United States and beyond. Chris wrote all the songs and Chris Dodds, Matt Slocum, Jeff Duncan and Chris Mattingly shaped them into wild rock n roll abandon. Taylor broke up Love Coma in 1997 but remains friends with the band as rumors abound for a possible reunion..."

===== Discography =====

| 1992 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2018/08/25/love-coma-soul-rash/|Soul Rash]] | [[Flat Earth Artists]] |
| 199? | Waking Up Just the Same (live) |
| 1993 | [[https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-soul-rash-1993|Soul Rash]] | [[Etcetera Records]] / [[R.E.X. Music]] |
| 1996 | [[https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-language-of-fools|Language of Fools]] | [[R.E.X. Music]] |
| 2010 | Love Coma Years '93-'96 | (BandCamp compilation with unreleased tracks) |

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==== Soul Rash ====

1992 [[Flat Earth Artists]]

[[Chris Taylor]] – Singer, hush guitar, tambourine, soul pedal, 12-string guitar\\
Jeff Duncan – Groove stick, vox\\
Matt Slocum – All flying and space guitars, cello, 12-string guitar, voice box\\
Chris Dodds – The mighty drums, vocal chords

  - Big Reconstruction
  - Doubt
  - Empty
  - Sign
  - Disappear
  - Spice
  - What’s Behind Those Eyes?
  - 2½
  - Now
  - Heartwideopen
  - On My Way

From [[https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-soul-rash-1993|BandCamp]]: "I formed Love Coma along with drummer Chris Dodds in 1993. Matt Slocum played guitar on this album and toured with us for several years before creating the band [[Sixpence None the Richer]]. This was our first studio experience and was really a glorified demo session that became our first album. Thanks to [[Etcetera Records]] for releasing this on CD shortly after."

In January of 1993, the [[Flat Earth Artists]] newsletter said that [[Paul Soupiset]] and Donnie Meals had completed a remix project of "Heartwideopen." It was said to have three remixes of the song and a bootleg recording of an old [[Chris Taylor]] song called "Summer Wind." It is unknown if this project was ever released. At one time, there were plans to release it as a 12-inch vinyl for Texas clubs, with the b-side being a remix of [[Situation Taboo]]'s "S.A. Texas."

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==== Waking Up Just the Same (live) ====

199? Independent

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==== Soul Rash ====

1993 [[Etcetera Records]] / [[R.E.X. Music]]

[[Chris Taylor]] – Singer, hush guitar, tambourine, soul pedal, 12-string guitar\\
Jeff Duncan – Groove stick, vox\\
Matt Slocum – All flying and space guitars, cello, 12-string guitar, voice box\\
Chris Dodds – The mighty drums, vocal chords

  - Big Reconstruction (4:42)
  - What's Behind Those Eyes? (2:41)
  - Now (2:38)
  - Heartwideopen (5:11)
  - Doubt (4:56)
  - Empty (4:46)
  - Spice (1:03)
  - Disappear (5:00)
  - 2½ (0:56)
  - On My Way (10:32)

2010 Digital re-issue bonus tracks:

  - Lover, Lover, Lover (live on 99.5 KISS FM) (4:16)
  - Falling Down Like Stars (remix) 06:29

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==== Language of Fools ====

1996 [[R.E.X. Music]]

Chris Dodds - Drums\\
Jeff Duncan - Bass guitar\\
Chris Mattingly - Electric lead guitar\\
[[Chris Taylor]] - Singer, harmonica, rhythm guitar 

[[Michael Roe]] - Electric guitar on "Tomorrow Takes Too Long," "She Was," "Kill My Inspiration," "Selfless," "Spinning Through the Night"\\
Mark Harmon - Bass on "Wednesday"\\ 
John Flanagan - Electric guitar on "Wednesday"\\ 
Guy Niosi - Engineer, keyboards, vocals on "Wednesday" 

  - Entertainment Tonight (2:47)
  - Walk in the Rain (5:16)
  - Selfless (featuring [[Steve Scott]]) (3:20)
  - Astronaut (3:23)
  - Jigsawman (4:30)
  - She Was (3:06)
  - Summer Wind (4:36)
  - Kill My Inspiration (3:19)
  - Speak of the Devil (6:11)
  - Between He and She (6:26)
  - Wednesday (4:31)
  - Tomorrow Takes too Long (4:17)
  - Spinning Through the Night (6:25)

From [[https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/album/love-coma-language-of-fools|BandCamp]]: "It was 1995... I was an insecure kid fronting a rock and roll band... the worst kind of position to be in. I thought way too much about myself, my look, how other people felt about me. So much that the music gave me head aches to write. Second guessing everything I wrote down. We made a big sound though... and got my hero [[Michael Roe]] of [[The 77s]] to produce our record. It was about this time everything was falling apart for me... so I just dove head first into a Love Coma. 

We drove from Texas to California and with limited studio experience, we brought our rock and roll into Paradise Studios for basic tracking and then John Flanagan's Plaid Jacket Studios for vocal and guitar overdubs. 

The whole is stronger than the sum of it's parts... and we have [[Michael Roe]] to thank for that!"

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==== Love Coma Years '93-'96 ====

2010 Independent

  - Starfield Frequency (unreleased) (03:12)
  - Between He and She (06:26)
  - Astronaut (03:23)
  - Walk in the Rain (05:16)
  - Just Another Angel (unreleased) (04:38)
  - Jigsawman (04:30)
  - The Price of Failure (unreleased) (05:44)
  - Empty (alt. version) (04:39)
  - Spice (01:03)
  - What's Behind Those Eyes? (02:40)
  - Summer Wind (04:36)
  - Entertainment Tonight (02:47)
  - Hands United (unreleased) (06:32)
  - Heartwideopen (05:11)

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===== Links =====

  * [[https://christaylor.bandcamp.com/|Chris Taylor on BandCamp (with all Love Coma albums)]]