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Metroschifter Encapsulated
DOGHOUSE 2000

Our most recent album features other bands playing new and unreleased songs we wrote. The bands you'll hear are Burning Airlines, Cooler, Elliott, the Enkindels, the Get Up Kids, Ink & Dagger, Joan of Arc, Music Group, MT Rhoades & His Lonesome Woods Band, the Promise Ring, Refused, Kyle Crabtree & Jason Noble of Shipping News, and Rye Coalition.

Downschifter, Dear Hilary, It's Not The Way I Feel Anymore, Burn Lexington Burn, Under Pressure to Exist, Forensic Economics, Be, You Are So Unreal, Here In Your Mind, Isn't Freedom a Poison, L 182.

Burning Airlines
"Dear Hilary"
MP3 / 2:26 / 2.7 MB

MT Rhoades Band
"Under Pressure to Exist"
unreleased version
MP3 / 6:10 / 5.6 MB

Encapsulated Demos
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S A RECORD COMPANY 2000

This album contains the original demo versions that were sent to the bands who played on Encapsulated. Several songs that appear on Encapsulated Demos did not make it to the final release and can be heard only in this release from our own label.

Machine Language, Forensic Economics, Impossible Outcomes, L-182, Under Pressure To Exist, Actress, Dear Hilary, Burn Lexington Burn, Down By The River, On The Road, Unrealistic, It's Not The Way I Feel Anymore, Isn't Freedom A Poison, Here In Your Mind, Julie Minuet II.

Strawberries
DOGHOUSE 1999

Metroschifter's last trip to the studio resulted in this 20-minute favorite. It takes everything you love about Metroschifter and adds electronic sequenced beats, polished vocals, guitar solos, and piano to the mix. We consider this to be our best record to date. Find out if you agree!

L 182, Persona, Actress, Continuity Piece, Forensic Economics, Opaque, My Old Kentucky Home (long version).

Metroschifter Picture Disk
REDWOOD 1999

Three songs recorded at Red House Recording Studios in Eudora, Kansas, and pressed into a full color vinyl seven inch picture disk. Released by Redwood Records of Fullerton, California.

Impossible Outcomes, Under Pressure to Exist, Machine Language.

Metroschifter & Shipping News
INITIAL 1998

Three songs by each band. A total of 40 minutes of music. The first 900 units had machine-engraved aluminum covers engineered by Chris Reinstatler.

METROSCHIFTER: It Used to Be So Easy, Now, One Cloud in the Sky.
SHIPPING NEWS: Nine Bodies Nine States, Books On Trains, Steerage.

Metroschifter 4
DOGHOUSE 1997

Our fourth full length is our longest and heaviest album. Guest appearances by members of the Rachel's and the Loved.

Inner, Is This All About Money, Advil, The Name of a Street, Know Where You're Going, Third Party, Black Wednesday, The Torsten Fratzke Story, Apple, Reverse Stick, Alphabetical, Nothing I Can Say.

Let's Get This Party Started
INITIAL LIMITED 1997

We home-made this cassette to sell at our shows during 1997. The songs are early demos, alternate versions and live tracks. It's now available on emusic with extra tracks.

650 Miles/Why Me (live 1996), Alphabetical (alternate mix 1997), Drive (1993 demo), Sweeper (1993 demo), Back-A (1993 demo), Marker (1994 demo), Advil (alternate mix 1997).

The Truth is Always the Right Answer
K COMPOSITE 1997

This limited edition 45 RPM record was pressed in Nashville on machinery that once pressed Elvis Presley singles. About 1,400 people pre-ordered a copy of the transparent vinyl record which came personalized in translucent packaging.

Advil, Alphabetical.

Generation Rx
DOGHOUSE 1996

This is our all-acoustic full length that many people call our "country album." This is a lot different than our other records and people either love it or hate it. We love it.

Welcome to Louisville, The Greatest Ballad of All Time, Why Me, Untitled Hymn for Kentuckiana, Nobody's Favorite Crayon Is White, Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Muhammad Ali Boulevard, Funny How Time Slips Away, What Flavor? , The Middletown General Store, Dear Lord My God, Last Night While You Slept, It Just Means Good-bye, Old Chunk of Coal.

Songs from the film
Number One for a Second
DOGHOUSE 1995

Two songs we recorded with Bob Weston at the same time as Fort Saint Metroschifter. One is an instrumental and the other is a cover written by Matt Ronay of the Telephone Man with Mandy Katz.

Smart Bomb, 650 Miles.

Fort Saint Metroschifter
DOGHOUSE 1995

Loud drums, rough vocals and swirling analog flanging steal the show on this one, recorded by Bob Weston. This is our most emotional record. Also includes the songs from the seven inches "For the Love of Basic Cable" and "Number One for a Second."

Finder, Love, Branson, $39.00, Piddle Looper, Equation. EXTRA TRACKS: Smart Bomb, 650 Miles, Link, Whatever's Wrong With Me Is Here To Stay.

Acoustic split with Falling Forward
INITIAL 1995

Two acoustic songs from each band. The idea for this record was born at a Slamdek pizza party in 1994 while assembling Metroschifter Capsule albums.

FALLING FORWARD: Christensen Spring, Twenty-Nine Sixteen Magazine.
METROSCHIFTER: Myth, E.

For the Love of Basic Cable
FORESIGHT 1995

A two-song 7" released by our friend Joe Beres. The song on side two is the #1 most requested song at our live shows. This was the first time somebody offered to pay for us to make a record.

Link, Whatever's Wrong With Me Is Here to Stay.

The Metroschifter Capsule
SLAMDEK 1994

Our first album was recorded as a side project in 1994 and we never expected it to last very long. To raise the funds needed for pressing the album, we pre-sold 400 copies of it which were personalized with the names of the people who ordered it. It was issued by Conversion Records in California the following year on LP, cassette, and CD.

Overlap, Marker, Drive, Shit Harvester, Scoop, Square, I Heart FF, Flat, Forward.

EXTRA TRACKS ON THE CONVERSION CD: E, Myth, I Don't Like This Anymore, Nordberg, Moving Closer To the Source of Heat, Cooper.

New Mexico Demos
SLAMDEK 1994

This demo cassette was assembled with a multi-track recorder and a drum machine in a 200-year-old adobe in Abiquiu, New Mexico. It was issued in the spring of 1994 by Slamdek in Louisville. It was discontinued when the Metroschifter Capsule album came out that summer.

Overlap, Marker, Drive, Shit Harvester, Scoop, Square, I Heart FF, Flat, Forward. EXTRA CD TRACKS: E, Myth, I Don't Like This Anymore, Nordberg, Moving Closer To the Source of Heat, Cooper.