Dave Cloud's Discography

Main Albums   Today is the Day That They Take Me Away (2015) More info below ↓   Live at Gonerfest (2012) More info below ↓   Practice in the Milky Way (2011) More info below ↓   Pleasure Before Business (2008) More info below ↓   Napoleon of Temperance (2006) More info below ↓   All My Best (2004) More info below ↓   Songs I Will Always Sing (1999) More info below ↓   Singles and EPs   "Fever" EP (2009) More info below ↓   "Puff Rider" (Various Production remix) (2008) More info below ↓   "You Don't Need Sex" (2007) More info below ↓   Other Recordings   "Take You Slow" on This is Ming Beat: A Tribute to Sexton Ming (2009) More info below ↓   The Fire Starter — An Introduction To Fire Records (2009) More info below ↓   "Lovely Rita" on Sgt. Pepper with a Little Help from His Friends (2007) More info below ↓   Children are Fascinated by Fire v1.2 (2007) More info below ↓   Children are Fascinated by Fire v1.0 (2006) More info below ↓   "All the Same" on Keep Mother, Vol. 2: C & D (2006) More info below ↓   "Carol of the Bells" on A Working Stiff Christmas: 15 Years at Springwater (2000) More info below ↓

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Dave Cloud's final album, Today is the Day That They Take Me Away, gathers 27 career-spanning tracks, from 1996's "Party Doll" to songs completed just weeks before his untimely death in 2015, making it perhaps the most complete view into the creative mind of Nashville's late-night rock'n'roll alchemist. Cloud's familiar personas—lascivious raconteur, hopeless romantic, and rejected paramour—are all here, along with the witty wordplay, stream-of-consciousness narratives, and musical experimentation that made Cloud one of the most unique figures in popular music. Today is the Day That They Take Me Away is a fitting epitaph to a musical enigma.

Tracks:

1. Bimbo (Todd Gerber, Matt Bach, Matt Swanson, Dave Cloud)
2. Just Like You (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Ben Martin, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
3. DNA (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Alex Collins, Matt Bach)
4. Angelina (Marteis Cleveland, Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Matt Swanson)
5. Today Is The Day That They Take Me Away (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Tony Crow, Brian Boling)
6. Tagalong Jane (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker, Warren Pash)
7. Thieving Love Bandit (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Paul Booker, Matt Bach)
8. Party Girl (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Alex Collins)
9. He Not A She (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach)
10. 400 Girls (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Alex Collins, Paul Booker, Ben Martin, Matt Bach)
11. Never Say You Come From Nowhere (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
12. Shoot Me The Juice, Lucy (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker, Alex Collins)
13. My Boss Is Broke (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker, Ben Martin, Alex Collins)
14. All Hands On Deck (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Paul Booker, Alex Collins, Ben Martin, Matt Bach)
15. Cookie Crumbles (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Paul Booker, Alex Collins, Ben Martin, Matt Bach)
16. Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
17. Party Doll (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Chris Davis, Dave Friedman)
18. Soixante Neuf (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Paul Booker, Tom George)
19. Insatiable (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Alex Collins, Paul Booker)
20. Impetuous (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach)
21. Kathy (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
22. Escape from Melrose (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Ben Martin, Lukin Nunn)
23. Melt Like Butter (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach)
24. Redemption Rd (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
25. Oh No, She's Mine (Dave Cloud, Matt Swanson, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
26. Take It All (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Paul Booker)
27. Lebanon Road (Dave Cloud, Matt Bach, Matt Swanson)

Samples:

The Gospel of Power:

Dave Cloud (vocals, composer, lyrics, guitar, trumpet)
Matt Swanson (composer, bass, drums, Wurlitzer, tracks, lyrics, engineer)
Matt Bach (composer, guitar, bass, drums, Wurlitzer, keyboard, lyrics, engineer)
Paul Booker (guitar, vocals)
Alex Collins (guitar)
Ben Martin (drums, vocals)

Featuring:

Chris Davis (drums on "Party Doll" from 1996)
Todd Gerber (backing track on "Bimbo")
Lukin Nunn (piano on "Escape From Melrose")
Dave Friedman (guitar on "Party Doll" from 1996)
Warren Pash (keyboards on "Tagalong Jane")
Brian Boling (trumpet on "Today Is The Day That They Take Me Away" from 1997)
Tom George (synth on "Soixante Neuf")
Marteis Cleveland (drums on "Angelina")

Thank you: Dr. Fred and Barbara Cloud, Sexton Ming, The London Dirthole Company, Frank Østevold, Frank Nes of Bergenfest, Angela & Mary of Athens, Roger Pistole (filmmaker), and Michael Carter (filmmaker).

Sleeve design by John Foster.

Recorded at Gonerfest in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2010, this album captures Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power as they were meant to be experienced: live, loud, and barely in control.

Tracks:

1. Intro by Kevin Younger of Armitage Shanks
2. Motorcycle (Cloud)
3. Fantastic Rage (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Swanson)
4. Subliminal Face (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Parton)
5. Hopelessly Addicted To You (Cloud)
6. Filipino Houseboy (Cloud)
7. Flowers (Sexton Ming)
8. Emmanuelle (Hervé Roy)
9. Run The Jack On You (Cloud/Bach)
10. Take You Slow (Sexton Ming)

Samples:

The band:

Dave Cloud (vocals, guitar)
Matt Bach (guitar)
Ben Martin (drums)
Matt Swanson (bass)
Paul Booker (guitar)

Recorded at the Hi-Tone in Memphis, Tennessee on September 24, 2010. Engineered and mixed by Kyle Johnson & Robin Pack at Rocket Science Audio, Memphis. Front cover photograph by Don Perry. Sleeve design by John Foster at badpeoplegoodthings.com.

Carnal desire in its many forms suffuses Dave Cloud's fifth album, an expansive set of revved-up alt-blues, garage rock and neo-psychedelia. The Gospel of Power (led by guitar wizard Matt Bach) provides expert backing for Cloud's witty, raunchy and often hilarious lyrics—from the satirical cosmopolitanism of "The Nudist Camp" to a humbling encounter with a dominatrix in "Mrs. Crumb."

Tracks:

1. Siberian Hypnotist (Cloud)
2. On The Rebound (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
3. Practice In The Milky Way (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
4. Flowers (Sexton Ming)
5. Guy De Maupassant (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
6. Spotty Bird (Bach/Cloud/Hatcher)
7. Mrs. Crumb (Bach/Cloud/Crow/Swanson)
8. The Nudist Camp (Bach/Cloud)
9. Boogaloo (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
10. Only Girl I Know (Bach/Cloud)
11. Before I Give You Up (Childs/Cloud)
12. Razmatazz (Cloud)
13. Surfer Joe (Bach/Cloud)
14. School Of Hard Knoxville (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
15. Sky High On My New Bimbo (Bach/Cloud/Swanson)
16. Bring On The Nubiles (Cornwell/Stranglers)
17. Death In The Wishing Well (Bach/Cloud)
18. Eat Me Raw (Bach/Booker/Cloud)
19. Spanky Spank (Cloud)
20. Party Party Party (Cloud)

Sample track ("Death In The Wishing Well"):

The musicians:

Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, words)

with The Gospel of Power. . .
Matt Bach (guitars, drums, bass, words)
Ben Martin (drums)
Matt Swanson (bass, loops)
Paul Booker (guitars)

featuring: Tony Crow, Brian Boling, Tom George, Charles Hatcher, Cole Street and Dr. Ilse Lazaroms as "Mrs. Crumb"

Produced by Matt Bach and Matt Swanson. Front cover photograph by Jeanne Madic. Sleeve design by John Foster at badpeoplegoodthings.com.

» A limited number of 12" vinyl LPs of Practice in the Milky Way is available for purchase from Thee Swan Recording Company:

US$15.00 + shipping

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power contribute their cover of Sexton Ming's "Take You Slow" on this tribute to the UK poet and performance artist.

» Available from RIM Records

Six-track EP includes four original Cloud tunes plus covers of two classics—"Just a Little" and the Rolling Stones' "Citadel." The title track was recorded at Fire Records' Stoke Newington studio in London.

Tracks (written by Cloud except as indicated):

1. Fever
2. Just a Little (Durand/Elliot)
3. Surfer Joe
4. The Citadel (Jagger/Richards)
5. No Matter Where You Been
6. In the Distance
   

Cover photo by Don Perry.

Fire Records' artist sampler includes "Winter Winds" by Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power.

» Available from Fire Records

On their fourth album Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power deliver 15 brand new tracks of dirty garage rock and deconstructed pop. Diverse in style and subject matter, the album includes the heavy "You Don't Need Sex," the comical "Orgy," the contemplative "Airplane Japan" and the galloping "Land of a Thousand Dances" (with guest vocal by Nina Persson of The Cardigans).

Perhaps more than any previous Dave Cloud album, Pleasure Before Business showcases the musicianship and arranging skills of core Gospel members Matt Bach, Ben Martin and Matt Swanson. The Cloud original "Hopelessly Addicted to You" is an exhilarating spasm of barely-controlled chaos in which the band propels Cloud through one of his most compelling vocal performances. Their unhurried, experimental renditon of the Bee Gees' "If I Can't Have You" masterfully breaks down the disco classic into its essential melodic and emotional elements, providing a fitting denouement to the album.

Tracks (written by Cloud except as indicated):

1. You Don't Need Sex
2. Land of a Thousand Dances [featuring Nina Persson] (Kenner)
3. Hey! (You're Beautiful)
4. Hopelessly Addicted to You
5. Orgy
6. Mary Jane (Curb/Brown)
7. Rock Video
8. Lightning Surge
9. Yummy Yummy Yummy (Levine/Resnick)
10. Just a Little (Durand/Elliot)
11. Airplane Japan
12. 50 Dollar
13. Secret Wife
14. Cosmetology
15. If I Can't Have You (B. Gibb/M. Gibb/R. Gibb)
    

The musicians:

Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, words)

featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (guitar, drums)
Matt Swanson (bass guitar)
Ben Martin (drums)
Paul Booker (guitar)
Steve Poulton (guitar)
Brian Boling (trumpet)

with Tom George, Jeremy McCall and Cole Street; additional guitars on "Orgy" by Alex McManus and William Tyler; vocals by Nina Persson on "Land of a Thousand Dances."

Produced by Cloud, Bach and Swanson. Cover art by Bonsey.

This partnership between Fire Records and Various Production (Adam Phillips and Ian Carter) is a "dancefloor-ready" remix of Dave Cloud's funny/scary "rap" inspired by a large, ferocious house cat. Cloud's lo-fi original is on side B of the vinyl release.

Cover art by Bonsey.

In the first single from the Pleasure Before Business LP, Cloud and his Nashville gang blast out a dirty-ass garage riff declaring sex as unnecessary. Whether Zen satori or conflicted sentiment (or both), the pronouncement is further confused by the salivating B-side "Lavender Clothes."

MOJO Magazine commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with this track-for-track alternative rock "remake."

Joining 14 other artists (among them Stephanie Dosen, Fionn Regan and Echo & The Bunnymen), Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power offer up a raw, psychedelic-garage version of "Lovely Rita," Paul McCartney's ode to a meter maid.

» Available from Amazon.com

Fire Records' third sampler album includes "Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox" by Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power.

» Available from Boomkat

The first Fire Records sampler includes two tracks from Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power: "Lavender Clothes" and "I'll Run the Jack on You."

» Available from Fire Records

Cloud's first release on the Fire Records label is a two-CD, 45-track retrospective collection that resequences most of the tracks from Cloud's first two U.S. albums (All My Best and Songs I Will Always Sing) and adds five previously-unreleased tunes.

You can preview, purchase and download the entire Napoleon of Temperance album or individual tracks from iTunes.

Tracks:

1. Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox (Cloud)
2. Puff Rider (Cloud/Crow)
3. Lavender Clothes (Cloud)
4. I'll Run the Jack on You (Cloud/Bach)
5. You Missed a Damn Good Chance (Cloud/Crow)*
6. Goin' to the Go Go (Wishman)
7. Love Jones (Cloud/Swanson)
8. Cool Water (Button/Cloud)
9. Sleep All Day (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Swanson)
10. Subliminal Face (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Parton)
11. Fantastic Rage (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Swanson)
12. Winter Winds (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Swanson)
13. Bugle Call with Guitar (Cloud)
14. Misengendered Mulatto Squandering Abeyance to Phantasmagoria (Cloud/Bach/Street)*
15. When Everyone is Gone (Cloud/Crow/Bach)
16. Sing 9 and 90 (Cloud)
17. Motorcycle (Cloud)
18. Summer Holiday (Cloud)
19. Living in Your Love (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Friedman)
20. Booty Shoe II (Cloud)
21. Save the Last Dance for Me (Cloud/Button)
22. Sudden Stop (Cloud/Swanson)*

1. Belinda Purvis (Cloud/Bach/Street/Swanson)*
2. Eight Miles High (Clark/Crosby/McGuinn)
3. Heatwave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)
4. All Day Music (War)
5. Our Love (Don't Throw it all Away) (Gibb/Weaver)
6. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (Gibb/Gibb)*
7. I'm into Something Good (King/Goffin)
8. You Can't Lose (Cloud/Bach)
9. Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan)
10. Sifu Bruce Lee (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
11. Get Down Tonight (Casey/Finch)
12. Warmth of the Sun (Wilson/Love)
13. Young Love (Cartey/Joyner)
14. Me and Mrs. Jones (Gamble/Gilbert/Huff)
15. Let's Spend the Night Together (Jagger/Richards)
16. Wild One (Lowe/Mann/Appel)
17. It Ain't Nothing to Me (unknown)
18. Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
19. Geronimo (Cloud/Bach/Swanson)
20. Icy Cold Brew (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
21. Green Fields (Cloud/Bach/Boling)
22. Teenage Bossman (Cloud/Bach)
23. Evil Dracula Man (Cloud/Bach)

* previously unreleased

The second volume in the Keep Mother 10" Vinyl Series includes two songs: Dave Cloud's "All The Same" and Matthew Bayot's "Carousel".

On his second album Dave Cloud invokes the great trilogy of Girls, Motorcycles and Money, while continuing his lo-fi exploration of carnal hedonism. Includes "Lavender Clothes," "Puff Rider," "Love Jones" and 19 other tunes. Features Dave's band The Gospel of Power.

» All My Best is available from:

• Thee Swan Recording Company:
  
  

  US$12.00 + shipping

• Midheaven Mailorder (Revolver USA Distribution)
• Grimey's, 1604 8th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee. Telephone: 615-254-4801.

Tracks:

1. Hey Baby! Let's Get Away (Cloud/Crow) (This song is not available on any other album)
2. Get Down Tonight (Casey/Finch)
3. Heatwave (Dozier/Holland/Holland)
4. Goin' to the Go Go (Wishman)
5. Cool Water (Button/Cloud)
6. Save the Last Dance for Me (Cloud/Button)
7. Motorcycle (Cloud) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
8. Sing 9 and 90 (Cloud)
9. Warmth of the Sun (Wilson/Love)
10. Bugle Call with Guitar (Cloud)
11. Lavender Clothes (Cloud) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
12. Young Love (Cartey/Joyner)
13. Booty Shoe II (Cloud)
14. Love Jones (Cloud/Swanson) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
15. Me and Mrs. Jones (Gamble/Gilbert/Huff)
16. Puff Rider (Cloud/Crow) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
17. You Can't Lose (Cloud/Bach)
18. Let's Spend the Night Together (Jagger/Richards)
19. Vixen...Vixen...Fox...Fox (Cloud)
20. Summer Holiday (Cloud)
21. All Day Music (War)
22. Evil Dracula Man (Cloud/Bach)

The musicians:

Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, piano, bugle, organ, words)

featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (guitars, drums)
Paul Booker (guitar)
Tony Crow (keyboards and programming)
Matt Swanson (bass guitar, piano)
Matt Button (guitar)
Ben Martin (drums)
Laurel Parton (drums)
Brian Boling (horns)

Produced by Cloud and Swanson.

This compilation of holiday songs features several artists who regularly played at the "Working Stiff Jamboree" held at Nashville's favorite dive bar—Springwater.

Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power contribute "Carol of the Bells." The CD includes tracks by The Cherry Blossoms and Lambchop.

» Available from Amazon.com and The Cherry Blossoms

Dave Cloud had been performing in Nashville music clubs for over 20 years before finally recording his first album in 1999. An international underground hit, Dave's debut includes the lo-fi classics "I'll Run the Jack on You," "Subliminal Face" and "Eight Miles High." Features Dave's band The Gospel of Power.

» Copies of this seminal debut CD are still available from Thee Swan Recording Company:

US$12.00 + shipping

Tracks:

1. I'll Run the Jack on You (Cloud/Bach) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
2. Subliminal Face (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Parton) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
3. Fantastic Rage (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker/Swanson)
4. I'm into Something Good (King/Goffin)
5. Sleep All Day (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Swanson)
6. Teenage Bossman (Cloud/Bach) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
7. Eight Miles High (Clark/Crosby/McGuinn)
8. It Ain't Nothing to Me (unknown)
9. Green Fields (Cloud/Bach/Boling)
10. Living in Your Love (Cloud/Bach/Booker/Friedman) Listen to an MP3 excerpt
11. Wild One (Lowe/Mann/Appel)
12. Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan)
13. Sifu Bruce Lee (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)
14. Winter Winds (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Swanson)
15. Geronimo (Cloud/Bach/Swanson)
16. Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
17. When Everyone is Gone (Cloud/Crow/Bach)
18. Our Love (Don't Throw it all Away) (Gibb/Weaver)
19. Icy Cold Brew (Cloud/Bach/Boling/Booker)

The musicians:

Dave Cloud (guitars, vocals, piano, words)

featuring The Gospel of Power:
Matt Bach (bass, drums, guitars, Casio)
Brian Boling (horns)
Paul Booker (guitar)

and
Laurel Parton (drums on "Subliminal Face")
Dave Freidman (bass on "Living in Your Love")
Matt Swanson (Casio on "Fantastic Rage" and "Sleep All Day")
Tony Crow (programming on "Eight Miles High" and "When Everyone is Gone")
John Elliot (programming on "Geronimo")

Produced by Matt Swanson.