Kyuss: Single's and EP's

Kyuss Singles and EP's

There are a few Kyuss singles and EP's. Most are pretty hard to come by. For some reason a lot of their stuff seems to get released in Europe, making it difficult for those of us stuck in North American to get a hold of these items. Luckily places like CD Europe are on the net and you can order some of the more difficult to find singles.

One Inch Man

There are two versions of this. One has just an edit version of One Inch Man and the other has the single and 3 new tracks:
  1. One Inch Man
  2. Flip the Phase
  3. Mudfly
  4. A Day Early And A Dollar Extra
According to an interview with the band there are two other new tracks, Fatso for Gotso and Shine. They've played Fatso for Gotso live as well as something else called Viva La Vamoso (or something like that). No idea what CD's those songs will show up on.

One of the members on the list, Dave, posted a short review of the songs on the album.

The back of the CD looks like this. There is also the CD itself which looks kinda cool.

The "edit" version (just one song) of the CD looks like this.

Demon Cleaner EP

This one is hard to get. It's an import. It comes with two cd's. Here's the track listing on the UK versions (thanks to [email protected] for the info):

The first CD has the following songs on it:

  1. Demon Cleaner
  2. Day One
  3. El Rodeo
  4. Hurricane

The second CD has these songs on it:

  1. Demon Cleaner
  2. Gardenia (live)
  3. Thumb (live)
  4. Conan Troutman (live)

The live tracks were recorded at Marquee club, Hamburg (Germany).

The two new tracks, El Rodeo and Hurricane are also on the album ...And the Circus Leaves Town

There's also a version of the Demon Cleaner single that has only a single song, Demon Cleaner.

Here's the back of the first cd. The front of the second cd and finally, the back of the second cd. Images are courtesy of Shane M. Snyder!

Gardenia Single

 This is another hard one to get. The three tracks are:
  1. Gardenia
  2. Un Sandpiper
  3. Conan Troutman

The new song (Un Sandpiper) is full on traditional Kyuss; lots of energy and a good groove. The last track claims to be live but no one who hears it thinks so.

Part III

 This one is hard to come by, but thanks to Dave G-man I've got a copy. The songs on the CD are a a verbatim copy of the third "movement" from SkyValley. The songs are:

This is the back of the case, the inside of the cover, and the CD itself.

Green Machine

This is another rarity sent to me by Tony Smith in Australia. The track listing is:

  1. Green Machine
  2. Thong Song

The back of the CD case has the following blurb on it:

The skyscraping amp inside the CD slick of Blues for the Red Sun - the second meisterwork by Palm Springs, USA natives, Kyuss - just looks loud. It's an image that recalls another era. A time when the battle wasn't to get into the pit but to put your head into one of the bass bins of the PA system. It used to be called fun though it played hell with the pressure in your ears. Maybe the gents in Kyuss used to get up to similar tricks and have set out reproducing those same sounds that pushed them to the brink of passing out. They certainly look like something straight out of a worn promo shot of crazed sixties decibel barbarians, Blue Cheer and sound that almost unbelieveably at times like a street punk version of the original Black Sabbath. Now let's face it - who doesn't need that. Yep, Kyuss are out to move your head and bowel and make the earth beneath your feet shudder. Mighty noble ideas if you ask me.

-- Murray Engleheart.

The band actually doesn't like the comparisons to Black Sabbath even though they're almost unavoidable.

Pools of Mercury

I've heard that this was never a released item but rather just the preliminary title for SkyValley. Obviously it never made it which is too bad because it such a cool name.

This EP is listed in the cdeurope.com catalog, but no one seems to know what it is. I placed an order for it, but it hasn't come in yet.

If you have a copy of this, I'd be very interested to know what's on it and possibly getting a scanned image of the cover. If you have a copy (or can get one), send me some e-mail.

Part II

Someone in Germany claims to have this. It's similar to the Part III single listed above. It contains the songs from the second movement of the SkyValley CD. I do not know more about it except that it has a larg Kyuss logo on the one side (written like on SkyValley) and some information about the then upcoming album.

As always, more details and/or scans of the cover would be appreciated.

Desert Heavies

This is a bootleg recording of a show Kyuss performed in Rome on Feb 21, 1995. The recording quality is supposed to be ok but not particularly great. Here's the track-listing according to Dave Thomas: 

                1. Intro  (just some weird music)
                2. Allen's Wrench
                3. 100 degrees
                4. Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop
                5. N.O.
                6. White Water
                7. Green Machine
                8. One Inch Man
                9. Freedom Run
                10. 800  (it's actually El Rodeo)
                11. 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
                12. Conan Troutman
                13. Odyssey
                14. Molten Universe
                15. Thumb

As always, more details and/or scans of the cover would be appreciated.