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<h2 id="discography">Discography</h2> <h3>Albums</h3> <ul><li>1987: <i>...And His Orchestra</i> (<a href="/facts/PopLlama_Records/1s7aQ1Wz">PopLlama</a>)</li> <li>1990: <i><a href="/facts/Very%2c_Very_Powerful_Motor/qPGRYal4">Very, Very Powerful Motor</a></i> (PopLlama)</li> <li>1991: <i>Never Fails, Never Works</i> (Blaster!) - UK compilation of EPs</li> <li>1992: <i>The Question is No</i> (<a href="/facts/Sub_Pop/p19dCgdI">Sub Pop</a>) - compilation</li> <li>1993: <i><a href="/facts/Z%25C3%25BCcker/PrVEvnNC">Zücker</a></i> (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1994: <i>Answer the Phone, Dummy</i> (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1996: <i>New Mansions in Sound</i> (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1999: <i>The Day that didn't Exist</i> (<a href="/facts/SpinART_Records/o6AMh02h">spinART</a>)</li> <li>2024: <i>For WHAT Reason!</i> (No Threes)</li></ul> <h3>Compilations</h3> <ul><li>2016: <i>Now is the Time</i> (No Threes) compilation</li> <li>2018: <i>If You Want To Slow Down, Step On The Gas</i> (<a href="/facts/Bandcamp/oP8j4xJd">Bandcamp</a>) - compilation recorded between 1985 and 1990</li> <li>2020: <i>Zucker 2020</i> (<a href="/facts/Bandcamp/oP8j4xJd">Bandcamp</a>) - expanded and remixed version of 1993 album</li></ul> <h3>Singles</h3> <ul><li>1981: "It's Your Birthday" / "You Can't Be Happy" (No Threes)</li> <li>1989: "Wrong Wrong Wrong" / "In America" - (Subway) - UK</li> <li>1989: "In The Winter" / "It Came To Me In A Dream" (Subway) - UK</li> <li>1990: "Lose" (Steve Priest Fan Club) - split with <a href="/facts/Gas_Huffer/ylQtCBH2">Gas Huffer</a></li> <li>1991: <i>The Answer Is You</i> ("My Letters"/"Whatever Happened to ?"/"Impatience"/"Above the Sunrise") (Sub Pop) 2-single set</li> <li>1992: "Run No More" / "Really" (Who Cares?)</li> <li>1992: "Now Is the Time" / "Sometimes" / "Was Late" (Ded Beet)</li> <li>1993: "They Don't Care" / "Out of the Charts" - (PopLlama)</li> <li>1993: "Gone to the Moon" - "Go All the Way" (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1994: "Wait It Out" / "The Jester" (Munster)</li> <li>1995: <i>Rat Race / I Live In A Car / Telephone Numbers</i> (Gearhead Records) - Split with The Meices</li> <li>1996: <i>Just Say</i> (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1996: <i>All In Order</i> / <i>Answer The Phone, Dummy</i> / <i>Allison</i> (Birdtime Bird Co.)</li> <li>1996: <i>And After All</i> / <i>Marionette</i> (Birdtime Bird Co.)</li> <li>2011: <i>Come On Come On</i> / <i>I Can't Hide</i> (Super Fan)</li> <li>2023: <i>A Quiet Night</i> / <i>Outer Space</i> (No Threes)</li></ul> <h3>EPs</h3> <ul><li>1982: <i>Fastbacks Play Five of Their Favorites</i> (No Threes)</li> <li>1983: <i>Orangeman hath no home here</i> (No Threes)</li> <li>1984: <i>Everyday Is Saturday</i> (No Threes)</li> <li>1989: "In The Summer/You Can't Be Happy/Everything I Don't Need/Queen of Eyes" (No Threes/SPFC)</li> <li>1993: <i>Gone To The Moon</i> (Sub Pop)</li> <li>1996: <i>Alone In A Furniture Warehouse Scaring You Away Like A Hotel Mattress</i> (Munster) - Spain</li> <li>1998: <i>Win Lose or Both</i> (PopLlama)</li></ul> <h3>Contributed tracks to</h3> <ul><li>1981: <i><a href="/facts/Seattle_Syndrome_Volume_One/Jbdabhzy">Seattle Syndrome Volume One</a></i> (Engram) track 6, "Someone Else's Room"</li> <li>1986: <i>Let's Sea</i> (<a href="/facts/K_Records/5BRuEyag">K Records</a>) track A-4, "Don't Eat That, It's Poison"</li> <li>1986: <i>Monkey Business: Green Monkey Records 1986 Compilation</i> (Green Monkey) track 8, "Time Passes"</li> <li>1988: <i><a href="/facts/Sub_Pop_200/7BrAX8F2">Sub Pop 200</a></i> (Sub Pop) track 10, "Swallow My Pride" (<a href="/facts/Green_River_(band)/972GaEd8">Green River</a> cover)</li> <li>1991: <i>Another Damned Seattle Compilation</i> (Dashboard Hula Girl) track 18, "Hit or Miss" (<a href="/facts/The_Damned_(band)/aG06gBS2">The Damned</a> cover)</li> <li>1992: on <i><a href="/facts/International_Pop_Underground_Convention_(album)/1Dewgm8q">International Pop Underground Convention</a></i> (<a href="/facts/K_Records/5BRuEyag">K Records</a>) track 19, "Impatience" (live)</li> <li>1992: <i>International Pop Underground Convention'</i> (<a href="/facts/K_Records/5BRuEyag">K Records</a>) track 19, "Impatience"</li> <li>1992: <i>Hodge Podge & Barrage from Japan</i> (1 + 2 Records) track 9, "Trouble Sleeping"</li> <li>1992: <i>Estrus Gearbox</i> (<a href="/facts/Estrus_Records/jqlWaqDb">Estrus</a>) track 2, "Hot Rods To Heaven"</li> <li>1992: <i>20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosions!</i> (Pravda) track 2-6 "Rocket Man"</li> <li>1993: <i>...And The Fun Just Never Ends</i> (Lost And Found) track 8, "You Can't Be Happy"; track 8, "Love You More" - Germany</li> <li>1993: <i>Say Hello To The Far East</i> (<a href="/facts/Sony_Records/2rPlstgl">Sony Records</a>) track 1, "Go All The Way"</li> <li>1994: <i>13 Soda Punx</i> (Munster / Top Drawer) track 5, " I'm Cold"</li> <li>1994: <i>"Whole Wide World" - The Subway Organisation Label 1986-1990</i> (Midi Inc.) track 14, "In The Winter"</li> <li>1994: <i>The World of <a href="/facts/The_Zombies/9jMKeJlI">The Zombies</a></i> (PopLlama) track 6, "Hung Up On A Dream"; track 9, "<a href="/facts/Just_Out_of_Reach_(song)/pYHoIG3I">Just Out Of Reach</a>"</li> <li>1995: <i>20 Supersonic Mega Explosive Hits</i> (Runt) track 19, "Rocket Man" - Italy</li> <li>1995: <i>Oh Canaduh! (A Collection of Canadian Punk Rock Covers)</i> (Lance Rock) track 8, "Won't Have To Worry"</li> <li>1995: <i>Screaming Life</i> (Sub Pop) track 9, "What's It Like" - included with the book <i>Screaming Life: A Chronicle of the Seattle Music Scene</i> (HarperCollins)</li> <li>1996: <i>Bite Back / Live at the Crocodile Cafe's</i> (PopLlama) track 5, "Always Tomorrow"</li> <li>1996: <i>Home Alive - The Art of Self Defense</i> (<a href="/facts/Epic_Records/FYuvCn2y">Epic</a>) track 1-3, "Time & Matter"</li> <li>1996: <i>Hype! The Motion Picture Soundtrack</i> (Sub Pop) track 1, "K Street" (Live); track 22, "Just Say"</li> <li>1996: <i>Paydirt</i> (Sub Pop) track 7, "I Can't Win"; track 17, "No Information"</li> <li>1997: <i>Dictators Forever Forever Dictators Vol. II</i> (Roto) track 16, "Exposed" - Spain</li> <li>2001: <i>Give the People What We Want : The Songs Of The Kinks</i> (Sub Pop / Burn Burn Burn / Right Now) track 12, "Waterloo Sunset"</li> <li>2004: <i>Truth Corrosion and Sour Bisquits</i> (Book Records)</li> <li>2013: <i>What Have We Wrought? A Mike Atta Benefit Compilation</i> (Burger / Gasatanka / Munster) track 1-6, "Fast Enough"</li></ul> <h3>Live</h3> <ul><li>1988: <i>Bike • Toy • Clock • Gift</i> - self-released as a tape in 1988, re-released on No Threes Records in 1989, CD released in 1994 on <a href="/facts/Lucky_Records/trpcnVfG">Lucky Records</a></li> <li>1991: <i>In America</i> (Smilin' Ear) (2×7")</li> <li>1996: <i>Here They Are... Live At the Crocodile...</i> (Lance Rock) - Canada</li> <li>2021: <i>Mural Amphitheater, Seattle, WA August 25, 1986</i> (<a href="/facts/Bandcamp/oP8j4xJd">Bandcamp</a>) - archival live recording</li></ul> <h3>Video</h3> <ul><li>2004: <i>Hype! The Sound of a Musical Explosion</i> DVD (Republic)</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Stephen Tow, <i>The Strangest Tribe: How a Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge</i> (2011), Sasquatch Books (Seattle), especially p. 209–218, "Addendum: The Legendary Fastbacks". <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1570617430.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Fastbacks. <ul><li><a href="http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=fastbacks">on the <i>Trouser Press</i> site</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fastbacks-mn0000174582">Fastbacks</a> at <a href="/facts/AllMusic_(identifier)/Hb8cU8Fb">AllMusic</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/283348-Fastbacks">Fastbacks</a> discography at <a href="/facts/Discogs/wdyMoREv">Discogs</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Thompson, Stephen (November 3, 1999). "Fastbacks". AV Club. Retrieved February 23, 2017. <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/fastbacks-13627" target="_blank">http://www.avclub.com/article/fastbacks-13627</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Deming, Mark (2004). "The Fastbacks bio". Mtv.com. MTV. Archived from the original on October 22, 2004. Retrieved August 3, 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041022015417/http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/fastbacks/bio.jhtml" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20041022015417/http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/fastbacks/bio.jhtml</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>uncredited (January 14, 2013). "These Streets: Kim Warnick". These Streets. Retrieved February 1, 2017. <a href="https://thesestreets.org/kim-warnick/" target="_blank">https://thesestreets.org/kim-warnick/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>uncredited. "First West Seattle Summer Fest music news: Fastbacks reunion". West Seattle Blog. Retrieved February 1, 2017. <a href="http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/1st-west-seattle-summer-fest-music-announcement-fastbacks-reunion/" target="_blank">http://westseattleblog.com/2011/05/1st-west-seattle-summer-fest-music-announcement-fastbacks-reunion/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Rose, Andy And Cat (September 16, 2018). "There's Something Hard in There: The Fastbacks, The Meices and more: Banding together for a friend in Seattle / Cat Rose photos". There's Something Hard in There. Retrieved June 4, 2021. <a href="https://theressomethinghardinthere.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fastbacks-meices-and-more-banding_16.html" target="_blank">https://theressomethinghardinthere.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fastbacks-meices-and-more-banding_16.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"A Quiet Night, by Fastbacks". <a href="https://fastbacks.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-night" target="_blank">https://fastbacks.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-night</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>