There’s a Bandcamp with three tapes by The Intrynsics, a late 80s Boston, U.S., indiepop band.
That’s quite a trove. I wonder though if all of these tapes were all the recorded output of this four piece. Let’s see what info we can find.
The first tape dates from 1987 and was titled “Pizza and Faerie Tales”. It was recorded at Acme Studios in Mamaroneck, NY, in May of 1986 and August of 1987 with producer Peter Denenberg. The songs on it were “As If I Were You”, “Mistake”, “From You”, “Means of the Cure” and “In Sue’s Room”.
The second tape was self-titled. Recorded and released in the summer of 1989, it was produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South in Boston. This tape includes an address, Allston, Massachusetts. That is a neighborhood in Boston, south of the Charles River. In this neighborhood is the Harvard Business School.
Five songs appear on this tape, “Crusade”, “Yellow Submarine”, “Too Much for Words”, “Repetition” and “Distortion”.
The third tape dates from August 31, 1990. This tape was again produced by Sean Slade at Fort Apache South. Five songs again, “Foregone Conclusion”, “Cover”, “What Does it Take (Michael’s Song)”, “Inside Out” and “Nineteen”, were included in it. This tape was titled “The Story of Hair”.
I keep looking. I see that The Intrynsics played on September 5, 1989, the venue The Channel. That evening they played in the same bill as T.V. Dream, What We Like, Work Force and The Balls.
Then according to Discogs the band contributed two songs to “SAWPIT – A Compilation”. This compilation was released by Bolt Records (BOLT007) in 1993. The songs by The Intrynsics are “Behind You” and “In the Basement”.
Then I finally find a name. George Faulkner. He was a member of The Intrynsics and was also behind Bolt Records, the one that released the compilation. George was also in NYC band The Rabies as well as The Mod Squad, The Juicemen and Junkstar.
Cool!
Now, who were the other members? Where are they now? Why didn’t they release any proper records? I’d love to find more. The sound of this band is really good!
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