The self-proclaimed "father of home taping", R. Stevie Moore was born in Nashville Tennesee in 1952. Son of
Elvis Presley's bass player,
Bob Moore, R. began making home recordings as a teenager and within a couple of decades had built up a small but devoted fan base including
Trouser Press founder
Ira Robbins. To this date, R. Stevie has released more than 400 albums of "alarmingly idiosyncratic variety and styles" most available on CD-R (and assembled from his "home tape club") from his home studio in
New Jersey.
"The American record industry's failure to recognize and promote the unique gifts of this giant talent is a case of criminal neglect," The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock
"I can only urge some latently adventurous major label to
bestow a few of those hot dogs in the satin baseball jackets up off their A & R asses and out to Verona, New Jersey, for a reminder of what actual talent sounds like." -Kurt Loder
Moore "should be sponsored by the American people as one of the few realistic pieces of rock 'n' roll history they have left." -The Underground UK
"...an effortless knack for pop hooks, loopy humor and self-revelation..." -Mojo, 2003
A FAIRLY INCOMPLEAT R. STEVIE MOORE DISCOGRAPHY:
1967-69
On Graycroft
Grease
The Sound of Fugto
Unleashed Ignorance (in Bb m augmented)
Children's Museum (1957-59)
The Marlborough Sings
1971
Victor Lovera (Jones/Eenque)
1972
All Twenty Minutes
Homers
1973
Mere Static/Planet 81
Ob Newschk
Invites Comparison
N U N 2 (Innuendos)
Monotheism
Iconoclasm
1974
Next
Moore Often
1975
Moore Or Less
Nth
Apologies To Mr. Gottlieb / Stevie Does The Beatles
1976
Returns
Play
Instrumentality/Aviation
The Voice/Lake Inferior
Phonography
1977
Piano Lessons
Swing And A Miss
Sheetrock
1978
The North
Pow Wow
Delicate Tension/Moore Stuff
Games And Groceries
Sample For Approval
Cannot Keep My Fingers Out of My Mouth/Groceries (cassingle)
Delicate Tension
The R. Stevie Moore LPs (
Phonography, Delicate Tension, Stance)
1979
R
Quits
1980
Clack!
Drumdrops
Urgent/XVII
(1952-19??)
Hurrah's, NYC (live)
1981
Criterions/Eek! A Mouse
Dumb Philosophy
Basic
Pop Pain
Column 88
F N I
Logarithms
1982
Pioneer Paramus
Pathos
Themes
We Love You Boxheads
Privacy
When
You And Your Employees
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Pleasant Tents
Boxheads 2
No Reason
Trial & Error
How Can You Resist R. Stevie Moore?
Subject To Change
Candid Cassette
R. Stevie Moore the Disk Jockey (WFMU free-form radio shows)
1983
W.O.M.A.N.
Boxhead Gothics 3
Repertoire
Under The Covers
The Church Session
It's What's Happening Baby
Serving Suggestion
Stevedore
F M F M
Curiously Enough
Hostile Territory
Crises
Musts
On Standby
As If Vinyl Didn't Exist
Amateur Hour
Solid State
R. Stevie Moore and the Rayvens Live Vol. 1 Folk City NYC
R. Stevie Moore and the Rayvens Live Vol. 2 Maxwell's
Boxheads 4: Broadcast (WFMU)
Boota Theater (1981-83)
The First Ten Years (1983)
Ass-ault (Dollar tape) (30m comp of 75 song excerpts)
Rarities
Country Disguises
Moore Versions
Lost and Found
Compss 1-4 Comp Tapes (compiled by Irwin Chusid)
R. Stevie Moore's Greatest Hits
1984
R. Stevie Moore Gets Off
CloserThaNever
1 9 8 4 U.
Embarrass Paris
State of Affairs
K 7
Kaffeeklatsch
Organ Donor
Jabberwocky
The Biggest Names In Show Business (WFMU)
Olives And More (with Peter Olafson, WFMU)
The Scott and Gary Show (NYC cable tv)
In Person (live, The Jetty, Bloomfield NJ)
Folk City, NYC (live)
120 Nuits (live at Paris 1984)
The Bitter End, NYC (live)
RSM and the Litterbugs (1st WFMU perf, 1979)
Boston, The Channel (live)
The Dive, NYC(live)
The Swings - Rockin' New Year's Eve (live, Kentucky 1976)
Messy Merci Me (Paris diary 1984)
Phoney (fake phone calls 1973-74)
Rare Radio Interviews (WPRB, WTSR: NJ 1984)
The Larry and Mookie Show (WFMU shows with Frank Balesteri
a/k/a Vanilla Bean)
Theatre of Skips #1
WXYZ-TV (1975 TV fantasy)
Everything...(Tout)
What's the Point?!!
1985
Skeletons
Barely
R.Stevie Moore's Three Blazers
Umpteenth
R. Stevie Moore is Worth It
The Sanctuary Sessions (Glad Music)
Man Of The Year
Two Evenings with R. Stevie Moore in New York (Irving Plaza/Folk City)
The Jetty Vol. 2 (live)
The Swings Back The Coasters (Iowa 1977)
Verve
1986
Man of the Year Vol. 2
Purpose
Man of the Year Vol. 3
Belief
All Well And Good
Dubs One / Say Man
Dubs Two
Pandemonium
R. Stevie Moore Sings at Speakeasy (live)
Radio Performance (WFMU 1985)
Speakeasy Vol. 2 (live)
Last Live Show/Lone Star Cafe (live)
Glad Music
R. Stevie Moore Within Grooves of Discs
1987
Googleplex
Clips
Middle-Age Vernacular
Effluvium
RSM: Live on WFMU for DJ Krys O.
Teenage Spectacular
1988-1991
The Video Years -
RSM concentrates on creating VHS instead
1990
Greatesttits
1991
Persevere
1992
Recital
1993
Songlets/Voiced
Sequestered
Autographed Blank Tape (D-60; ltd ed)
RSM on WFMU
Maxwell's (live)
Contact Risk
1994
Ersatz
Executive Turntable
Goosebumps
Who Cares?
Absinthe
A New Day of Restoration
Herculean Rationale
May
Unpopular Singer, Vols. 1 & 2
Unpopular Singer, Vol. 3
1995
Fundraiser
Chapter 11
Boy at Work
Phlegm Soundtrack
In One Ear and Out the Other
An Afternoon With...RSM
Dull
Unpopular Singer, Vol. 4
1996
The Day the Earth Stood on Stilts
Vague
Really?
Comeuppance
Plight
The R. Stevie Moore Interview
1997
Disturbed
Senior Superlatives
RSM Live '97 (Mother NYC/Tierney's NJ)
RSMKO Sing, Stork Club, WFMU
Baggot Inn/Knitting Factory, NYC (live)
Objectivity - Yung & Moore with Yukio Yung
1998
Comeback Special
Tonic, NYC (live)
Stork Club, WFMU
Weird NJ at Maxwell's (live)
1999
Dates (with Dave Gregory)
I'll Say It's My Fault
Watch: Gore/Moore with Bryan Gore
WRVU, Vanderbilt, Nashville
Sutler, Nashville (live)
Mercury Lounge (live)
RSM and The Bees, Darress Theater (live)
The Future Is Worse Than The Past
2000
Love Compartment
Maxwell's Y2K (live)
Maxwell's Again (live)
2001
The Jinx
Midi-Bran Piano Rolls
Colliding Circles (EP)
A Clever Combo The Breetles (EP)
Frank Balesteria (EP)
Nova Nights (live)
FairMoore with
Jad Fair
2002
Alma Mater The Mighty Rams (EP)
You Must Be Out Of My Mind (EP)
Horse In Striped Pajamas (EP)
Maxwell's IPO (live)
Hundreds Of Hiding Places
2003
A Whiter Shade Of Pale (EP)
Report Card
Gabe R.
Fez NYC (live)
Live on WFMU, with Kenny G.
Hobbies Galore
Nevertheless Optimistic
Source:
Trouser Press
All Music Guide
Mojo Magazine
and
www.rsteviemoore.com