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MXBX 1998: 13,000 Miles at Light Velocity
Release Date: 1999 02 16
Label: Tzadik

MXBX 1998: 13,000 Miles at Light Velocity, impressively enough, is a live recording of Melt-Banana, one of Japan's finest noise/prog underground bands -- anyone impressed with studio recordings of the group's scratchy, frantic rock will no doubt be bowled over with the way this sounds in a more direct and organic setting. With a pace and energy that rivals kings of the genre like the Happy Family, Melt-Banana tear through most of the best tracks on their album releases -- selections like "It's in the Pillcase" and "Disposable Weathercock" even seem to sound better than they did on Scratch or Stitch. Most notable is a cover of "Surfing U.S.A.," and if you're familiar with Melt-Banana, you can probably imagine how wonderful such a thing would be. Nitsuh Abebe, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Scratch or Stitch	Melt Banana	1:34
2	Rragg	Melt Banana, O.	0:54
3	Wedge		1:08
4	Seesaw Semiology	Melt Banana	1:14
5	Circle-Jerk (Chase the Magic Words, Lego, Lego)	Melt Banana	2:11
6	Sick Zip Everywhere	Melt Banana	1:48
7	Disposable Weathercock	Melt Banana	1:49
8	Mind Thief	Melt Banana	1:36
9	Blandished Hatman	Melt Banana	1:06
10	Iguana in Trouble	Melt Banana	2:04
11	Tapir's Flown Away	Melt Banana	2:48
12	His Name Is Mickey (At Last She Got Him...)	Melt Banana	0:39
13	We Love Choco-Pa!	Melt Banana, O.	0:18
14	Some Kind of Id		0:14
15	Stick Out	Melt Banana	0:39
16	Scrubber	Melt Banana	0:22
17	Screw, Loose	Melt Banana	0:09
18	First Defy	Yasuko, Melt Banana	0:11
19	So Unfilial Rule	Melt Banana	0:09
20	Spathic!		2:42
21	Picnic in Panic	Yasuko, Melt Banana	2:11
22	It's in the Pillcase	Melt Banana	2:21
23	Surfin' U.S.A.		2:34
24	Bad Gut Missed Fist	Melt Banana	1:42
25	Ketchup-Mess	Melt Banana	1:24
26	Plot in a Pot	Melt Banana	5:19