Toast and Olive: Friends of Tomorrow

Description

Toast and Olive, sub-titled Friends of Tomorrow, is a double disc multi-artist compilation released on Bulletproof Music in 1998, a division of Gray Dot. This is the 50th release from Gray Dot. The first disc is labeled “This is Toast” while the second disc is labeled “This is Olive”.

A double CD featuring cuts from must about the entire Bulletproof/Gray Dot roster – and what a great roster it is. From the radio friendly retro pop of My Friend Stephanie and the classy rock of The Miscellaneous to the punk thunder of Johnny Respect (a previously unreleased cut) and the wacky hillbilly weirdness of the Sanctified Glory Mountain Revival Family. There are 34 tracks on this double CD and enough introductions to great new bands (and great new band names – what about Bumblepuppy or Black Cherry Soda) this is well worth searching out as a thoroughly entertaining cross section of American Christian alternative. You get some seriously weird packaging too. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, April 1999]

2CD tracklist:

Disc One – This is Toast.

1-01. My Friend Stephanie – Believe In You – 2:59
1-02. My Friend Stephanie – Love Again – 4:17
1-03. Age Of Faith – Shelter (Radio Mix) – 3:35
1-04. Age Of Faith – Any Man (Radio Mix) – 3:50
1-05. Blame Lucy – We’ve Done It All (Mr. Voice’s Mix) – 2:51
1-06. Blame Lucy – Behind The Curtain (Mr. Voice’s Mix) – 3:16
1-07. Speck – Mercy – 2:39
1-08. Speck – More Of You – 3:59
1-09. The Miscellaneous – Cando (Relentlessly Pounded Mix) – 4:10
1-10. The Miscellaneous – Bunker Pew – 3:46
1-11. Crooked Smile – Dreamworld (007 At Home Mix) – 8:37
1-12. Crooked Smile – Sometimes You Feel (Radio Edit) – 3:50
1-13. Dumpster – Shovel (Demo) – 3:43
1-14. Dumpster – Set In Gold – 4:53
1-15. Sundays Child – Grace – 3:07
1-16. Bumblepuppy – Self-Effacing Deity – 3:38
1-17. Annie – Starstruck (Demo) – 5:03

Disc Two – This is Olive.

2-01. Dear Ephesus – On West ‘B’ – 4:16
2-02. Dear Ephesus – Portrait (Homeboy Mix) – 4:42
2-03. Johnny Respect – Time Marches On – 3:10
2-04. Johnny Respect – Ball And Chain – 2:50
2-05. World Against World – Insomnia For The Dead – 2:53
2-06. One-21 – Dragon – 2:24
2-07. New Jerusalem – Sincerity – 3:02
2-08. Exeter Flud – Your December – 3:50
2-09. Blah – 145 – 2:11
2-10. ForeverTree – Pure – 3:47
2-11. Black Cherry Soda – Your Alibi – 2:38
2-12. Elder – Sugar Medicine – 3:27
2-13. Holy Soldier – Whisper – 5:12
2-14. L.S. Underground – Funky Space Cat – 3:56
2-15. Spudgun – Watch It Burn – 2:01
2-16. Breakfast With Amy – Icky – 4:29
2-17. The Sanctified Glory Mountain Revival Family – King James Version – 3:50