A Treasury Of Song Vol. 2: Teen Hygiene (1999-2000)

Teen Hygiene began as an unnamed recording project in 1998, during the end of my days with the Flaming Wieners.

This collection contains the first Teen Hygiene cassette, Dance Dammit Dance!!, in its entirety (Tracks 1-21) along with highlights from next several releases. I do this because Dance Dammit Dance!! was a solid release, itself something of a compilation of material I piled up over a period of maybe eight months, while the following tapes were recorded much more quickly and carelessly.





Teen Hygiene was a solo project, just me along with whoever happened to be around. These recordings document the period in my life from the summer before my senior year in high school until the summer after my first year at New College in Sarasota, FL. When I turned 20, I decided to end the project because of the word "teen" in the name -- kind of arbitrary, I know, and I kind of wish I'd kept the name rather than the somewhat self-defeatingly misleading "Titans of Filth" name I adopted immediately after this.

But along with the change in the name, there was a change in the mood of the music to come. Teen Hygiene recordings are for the most part fun, catchy, and not too serious, while the earliest Titans of Filth recordings are coming from a somewhat scattered/depressed/exhausted place. But we'll come to that in due time. Next week I'll compile tracks from several different bands or side-projects I was involved in at the same time that I was recording the music that composes these first two Treasury volumes.

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A Treasury Of Song Vol. 1: The Flaming Wieners At Fannin High

So I think in honor of Neil Young finally getting around to releasing his Archives Vol. 1 box set, I'll release a little something of my own that might be of interest to Titans fans. This will be the first of several compilations covering material from my younger days. The songs present in this first volume are highlights from the career of my first band, the Flaming Wieners, recorded between when I was 15 until I was 17, or from 1996 until 1998.

I'm trying to write a little history of the band here, which I will continue to update with photos and flyers and things if I find them.


Above: Stephen Miller & your friend Sam

1. Plastic Robot
2. Confessions Of A Teenage Suicide Dropout (Kelly Tipton, words/Stephen, music)
3. Plastic Machine, Beauty Queen
4. Mad At The World
5. I Lost A Girl I Never Had (Music by Stephen)
6. I'm A Loser
7. Steve's Instrumental (Music by Stephen obviously)
8. Teenage Suicide Dropout
9. Untitled
10. Groovy Day (Music by Stephen)
11. Mom And Dad (Music by Stephen)
12. The Escape (Music by Stephen)
13. Lily Doesn't Like The Overly Excited Girl
14. Deenie
15. The Invisible Man Is On My Mind Again
16. I Don't Know, But I'm Feeling Good
17. Fake Plastic Gun
18. Genital Herpes
19. I'm Walking Through The Halls

Tracks 1-3 from High School (1996)
Tracks 4-9 from Cosmic Folk Destruction (1996)
Track 10 from Sneakyfoot (1996)
Tracks 11-12 from Son Of Sneakyfoot EP (1996)
Track 13 from Palmer Express (1997)
Track 14 from Lonesome Songs For Lonesome Folks (1997)
Tracks 15-19 from Here's Something Fun For You To Do! (1998)

Sam - Voice, guitar chords, bass guitar
Stephen - Fingerpicking guitar, lead guitar
Ben - Drums
Shannon - bass guitar sometimes?

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I had plenty of downtime today while my grandfather dozed in his recliner, but I assure you that my Garageband creation is not worth the time spent listening. I think for the purpose of the Sunday Songs series, I should abandon Garageband and use my guitar for writing songs.

My trouble with writing songs on Garageband is that although I find it easy to use the program to stack up tracks for an individual section of a song, it is difficult to try out different ways of going from section 1 to section 2, if that makes any sense. While using guitar, it's very easy to just play through different song changes to try and figure out what to do.

Anyway, we did have our first live band practice in about a month (we're getting ready for the show on the 25th) and I thought it sounded good. We're planning to practice quite a bit over the summer and hopefully record as well. There will be some changes in lineup, though, most likely. I'm in Blue Ridge right now but heading back toward Athens momentarily, hoping I can catch Circulatory System tonight.