THE ROCHES - (AN ALMOST COMPLETE) DISCOGRAPHY

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The Roches - (An Almost Complete) Discography
From allmusic:
Noted for their lush harmonies, quirky songs, and impressive stylistic range, the three Roche sisters -- Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy -- were among contemporary folk music's most endearing artists. The Roches began singing together while growing up in New York during the late '50s and early '60s, taking to the streets of the city each holiday season to regale passersby with Christmas carols. At the end of the decade both Maggie (the oldest) and Terre (the middle daughter) quit school to begin touring professionally as a duo. In 1970 they met Paul Simon, who tapped them to sing backup on his There Goes Rhymin' Simon album. He also helped get them a contract with Columbia; their debut LP, Seductive Reasoning, followed in 1975, but went largely unnoticed. For a time, the Roches considered quitting the music business, even leaving New York to retreat to Louisiana; eventually they returned north, at which time Suzzy left college to join the group full-time.
Restored to a trio, the Roches became a staple of the Greenwich Village folk circuit and a favorite of local critics. In 1979, they signed to Warner Bros. to issue a self-titled LP produced by Robert Fripp, earning acclaim for their exquisite harmonies (equal parts Terre's ethereal upper register, Maggie's near-baritone low notes, and Suzzy's midrange acrobatics). While the track "The Married Men" later scored a successful cover by Phoebe Snow, The Roches itself was not a hit. For 1980's Nurds, they changed direction, augmenting their basic folk sound with a rock rhythm section comprised of former Television bassist Fred Smith and Patti Smith Group drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. Fripp returned to produce 1982's Keep on Doing, a largely acoustic effort featuring cameos from members of his band King Crimson. When neither it nor its follow-up, 1985's Another World, was a commercial success, the trio left Warner to return to touring.
The Roches finally resurfaced on record in 1989, issuing Speak on MCA to the usual press acclaim and negligible sales. Their next effort, 1990's We Three Kings, was a Christmas album fondly recalling the sisters' roots. After 1992's A Dove, the trio left MCA to record a children's album, Will You Be My Friend?, issued on the tiny Baby Boom label in 1994. Continuing to cater to the younger set, that same year they recorded the soundtrack to the animated feature The Land Before Time II. For 1995's Can We Go Home Now, they signed to Rykodisc; another Roche sibling -- brother David -- was on hand to lend backing vocals. In early 1997, the Roches announced they were, at least temporarily, going their separate ways. While Maggie remained quiet, Terre soon formed a new group, Terre Roche & Her Moodswings, and later that same year Suzzy issued her first solo LP, Holy Smokes. In 2003 Rhino/Warner Bros released the Collected Works of the Roches compilation, prompting the trio to re-form after an 11-year hiatus for 2007's excellent Moonswept.
I'll just add this: While The Roches are best seen live--their shows are a joy, and they are seriously, out-of-left-field *funny*--their albums can be a bit hit and miss (the three I don't have uploaded are a good example of that!). But each album has at least a couple of gems, and they really have some of the most gorgeous harmonies you'll ever hear.
NB: This is an almost complete--and I do mean complete!--discography of The Roches's catalog, with three main exceptions:
* Nurds (1980)
* Another World (1985)
* No Trespassing [EP]
So if you have any of these (along with Phoebe Snow's cover of "The Married Men"), I'd be a *very* happy camper if you'd post them. I have the three albums on vinyl, but again, no way to convert them to mp3.
Maggie & Terre Roche - Seductive Reasoning (1975)

From allmusic:
When young Maggie Roche introduced herself to Paul Simon, it is easy to see what attracted him to her songs and the act she had with her sister, Terre. Roche has an intelligent, individual songwriting style, and her songs serve as the vehicle for two-part harmonies with Terre, the soprano, and herself on alto, a sort of distaff version of Simon & Garfunkel. Simon was sufficiently interested to use the two on There Goes Rhymin' Simon. Musically, Seductive Reasoning is a counterpart to that record, boasting many of the same names among its credits. Like Rhymin' Simon, it was recorded largely at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section giving the tracks their distinctive hybrid sound of country, rock, folk, gospel, and blues. And just as Simon turned to former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith for help on the quieter "American Tune," three ballads -- "West Virginia," "Malachy's," and "Jill of All Trades" -- were handled by him. But the superior musicianship and production are not what make Seductive Reasoning an outstanding album. Rather, it is most notable as the auspicious debut of a remarkable songwriter. Roche has the perspective of a young woman thoughtfully, if confusedly, making her way through the romantic, sexual, and career thickets of early adulthood. Her gift for wordplay expresses her uncertainties well. "There ought to be something to fall back on," she writes in "Down the Dream," "like a knife or a career." And her sense of romantic exploration is equally wary of the pitfalls, as she reveals in "Underneath the Moon": "A woman is like a puzzle/Shackin' up with the clues/While every piece she get/Is another piece she lose." The sisters trade off vocals and harmonize beautifully, adding to the songs' effectiveness and making Seductive Reasoning extraordinarily impressive.
TRACKS:
01. Underneath The Moon
02. Down The Dream
03. Wigglin' Man
04. West Virginia
05. If You Empty Out All Your Pockets You Could Not Make The Change
06. Telephone Bill
07. Malachy's
08. Burden Of Proof
09. The Mountain People
10. Jill Of All Trades
Quality - 192kbs from vinyl rip

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The Roches - The Roches (1979)

The official debut of The Roches as a trio, produced in "Audio Verite" by Robert Fripp. This is about as sterling a debut as one can have, widely celebrated as one of the best albums of the year by critics and remains Absolutely Indispensible. Phoebe Snow had a minor hit with her cover of "The Married Men," and The Colourfield later covered "Hammond Song."
TRACKS
01. We
02. Hammond Song
03. Mr. Sellack
04. Damned Old Dog
05. The Troubles
06. The Train
07. The Married Men
08. Runs in the Family
09. Quitting Time
10. Pretty and High
Quality - 320kbs from cd rip

http://rapidshare.com/files/179447817/Rs79.rar

The Roches - Keep On Doing (1982)

From Rolling Stone:
No new record by the Roches can bring the awesome surprise their debut did, but their third album is nearly as perfect. The first may have been prettier by conventional folk-music standards, but Keep On Doing is more ambitious, emphasizing some peculiar instrumentation especially the coolly excited, pulsing guitar runs by Robert Fripp that often gives it the feel of rock, although the record is lush with acoustic guitars.
Features their accapella arrangement of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus -- for three voices. Yes, it *is* that good.
TRACKS
01. The Hallelujah Chorus
02. Losing True
03. Steady with the Maestro
04. The Largest Elizabeth in the World
05. On the Road to Fairfax County
06. I Fell in Love
07. The Scorpion Lament
08. Want Not Want Not
09. Sex Is for Children
10. Keep on Doing What You Do/Jerks on the Loose
Quality - 320 kbs

http://rapidshare.com/files/179474885/Rs82.rar

The Roches - Speak (1989)

From allmusic:
While just about every critic and fan has a favorite Roches album that was inexplicably ignored, most will probably agree that Speak was the one that really should have gone gold. All of the ingredients for a huge album are here: emotional yet accessible songs, radio-friendly folk-pop arrangements, and the sisters' usual mind-blowing vocal pyrotechnics. True, the title cut does have harmonies and cadences that are more typical of Bulgarian music, but much of the rest of this album is radio-ready. "Big Nuthin" and "Person With a Past" are two obvious hits, but there are plenty more; in fact, this album doesn't have a dud track from end to end. Sure, fans of their early work will find "I Love My Mom" a bit too conventional and poppy, but heck, if you can't get a bit schmaltzy on a song to your mom, something's wrong with the world. Those who love the Roches' trademark bizarre wordplay and telepathic harmonies can focus on the avant-garde a cappella of "The Anti-Sex Backlash of the 80s" -- and with a title like that how can you resist? The jazzy backups are well handled and subtle throughout the album, and it's a classic. Alas, like all Roches albums it was critically acclaimed but ignored by the public.
TRACKS
01. Speak
02. Big Nuthin'
03. Cloud Dancing
04. Everyone Is Good
05. In the World
06. I Love My Mom
07. Losing Our Job
08. Person with a Past
09. The Anti-Sex Backlash of the 80's
10. Easy
11. Nocturne
12. Merciful God
13. Broken Places
14. Feeling Is Mutual
Quality - 320 kbs

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The Roches - We Three Kings (1990)

From the liner notes:
We're often stumped by the question "What are your influences?" because we've been affected by so much music. But it has occurred to us during the making of this record that Christmas music certainly goes way back into our early childhood memories. In fact, we can't even remember when we learned some of these arragements.
THE ROCHES came into being one Christmas season on the streets of New York City singing these very songs. And every year when the hassles and tensions of Christmas set in, we rediscover the joyful, peaceful spirit of Christmas through these carols. This record is a dream come true for us. We send it out into the world with best wishes for everyone!
I'll add: this is my absolute favorite "Christmas" album (along with Emmylou Harris' "The Light in the Stable"). Highly recommended!
TRACKS
01. Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light
02. For Unto Us A Child Is Born
03. Angels We Have Heard on High
04. Deck the Halls
05. Christmas Passing Through
06. Sleigh Ride
07. Away in a Manger
08. Here We Come A Caroling
09. The Little Drummer Boy
10. The Holly and the Ivy
11. Frosty the Snowman
12. Do You Hear What I Hear?
13. We Three Kings
14. Star of Wonder
15. Winter Wonderland
16. Joy to the World
17. O Little Town of Bethlehem
18. Good King Wenceslas
19. Jingle Bells
20. The First Noel
21. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
22. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
23. Adestes Fideles
24. Silver Bells
Quality - 320kbs

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The Roches - A Dove (1992)

From Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide:
For a long time they seemed strangers in their own music, distracted by some purist superego whispering in their ears about acoustic guitars. Here their pop style hasn't changed that much--it's a little more eclectic, if anything. But it could almost be growing out of their three consanguineous voices; they sound as natural and gorgeous as the Comedian Harmonists, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, maybe even the Judds. So when the words don't kick in right off, just immerse in the sound until they do, because they will. Pained smiles replace nervous giggles not because they've lost their sense of humor, but because Suzzy has finally gotten sick of her own whimsy, because the '90s are even less fun than the '80s, because you can't live with them and you can't live without them, and because they thought following "You're the One" with "You're the Two" was feminist comedy enow. Grade: A
TRACKS
01. Ing
02. Troubled Love
03. A Dove
04. Somebody's Gonna Have to Be Me
05. Expecting Your Love
06. Answered Prayers
07. Too Tough Hide
08. Beautiful Love of God
09. You're the One
10. You're the Two
11. Maid of the Seas
Quality - 320 kbs

http://rapidshare.com/files/179577065/Rs92.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/179577067/Rs92.part2.rar

The Roches - Will You Be My Friend (1994)

From amazon:
The three Roche sisters, Maggie, Suzzy, and Terre, have made one of the most enduring kids' records in a long time that speaks as easily to kids as it does to parents. Will You Be My Friend? is packed with melodic and inventive ditties that touch on meaningful subjects ranging from doing the laundry and facing disappointment to befriending the friendless (told as a story about a toad and turtles). The downright playful tune "Uncle Dave" sounds like an early American folk song plunked out by a fledgling kids' band (when was the last time you heard a couplet that rhymed "Brooklyn" with "good lookin'"!?!). The real prize here, among the many gems, is "Greetings," an imaginative look at our solar system told from the viewpoint of someone living on Mercury (which makes us the "aliens"). There hasn't been a space song this cosmically compelling since the Monty Python troupe sang "The Galaxy/Lighten Up." --Martin Keller
TRACKS
01. Do the Boodanee
02. Disappointed
03. Will You Be My Friend?
04. Rover
05. Uncle Dave
06. The Laundry
07. Postcard
08. When Kids Are Mean
09. My New Bicycle
10. Here We Go
11. Little Bitty Betty
12. Lovey
13. Goodnight
Quality - 320 kbs

http://rapidshare.com/files/179577068/Rs94.part1.rar
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The Roches - Can We Go Home Now (1995)

From Entertainment Weekly:
The Roches, Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy, can do anything they want with their voices, but after breaking through to a new stylistic and emotional breadth in 1992's A Dove, they've retrenched a bit with Can We Go Home Now, overindulging in what, for them, is an old vice: cutesy, self-conscious quirkiness.[Yup, it's got some good stuff, but it's probably the most uneven album they produced.]
TRACKS
01. The Great Gaels
02. Move
03. You (Make My Life Come True)
04. Christlike
05. Home Away From Home
06. Can We Go Home Now
07. When You're Ready
08. I'm Someone Who Loves You
09. So
10. Holidays
11. My Winter Coat
Quality - 320 kbs

http://rapidshare.com/files/179777268/Rs95.part1.rar
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The Roches - The Collected Works of The Roches (2003)

I guess you can't call it a "Greatest Hits" album when you've never had one! But it's still a very fine collection, and an excellent introduction into The Roches's catalog.
TRACKS
01. Hammond Song
02. Mister Sellack
03. The Troubles
04. The Train
05. The Married Men (live)
06. One Season
07. Nurds
08. The Hallelujah Chorus
09. Losing True
10. Want Not Want Not
11. Keep on Doing What You Do/Jerks on the Loose
12. Love Radiates Around
13. Another World
14. Face Down at Folk City
15. Love to See You
16. Big Nuthin'
17. Everyone Is Good
18. Ing
19. A Dove
Quality - 320 kbs

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The Roches - Moonswept

From PopMatters:
The three Roche sisters possess lovely voices and the ability to create stunning vocal harmonies that just take one s breath away.... The vocals are the star on Moonswept. Individually, each of them sing beautifully, but it s when they join together that the listener s heart starts to pound excitedly. Unfortunately, the Roches wrote most of the 14 tracks here, and they are not very good. The songs are often cloying and offer less than insightful comments on aging, human relationships and other such granola fodder. However, there are three excellent tunes written by others. Long Before , by Suzzy s daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche, suggests how ephemeral and important friendships can be. The Roches also cover two Paranoid Larry songs, No Shoes and Jesus Shaves , which contain lots of clever wordplay and provide the three singers with lots of opportunities to engage in demanding stop and start tempos and sing gloriously overtop of each other s voices.
I'll just add this - the strength of any particular album by The Roches seems to depend on Maggie's songwriting. When she is on top of her songwriting game, the albums shine. And when she isn't--or, like here, not really present in a writerly capacity--then it's more hit or miss. But you can't go wrong with those voices and the marvelous sound they produce.
TRACKS
01. Us Little Kids
02. Only You Know How
03. No Shoes
04. Moonswept
05. Family of Bones
06. That Naughty Lady of Shady Lane
07. Long Before
08. Piggy Mask
09. Huh
10. Stop Performing
11. Gung Ho
12. Instead I Chose
13. September 11th at The Shambala Center
14. Jesus Shaves
Quality - 320 kbs

http://rapidshare.com/files/179777275/Rs07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/179804143/Rs07.part2.rar

The Roches - Ephemera

I've included complete lyrics for all the uploaded cds (ok, yes, I forgot to include them in the original uploads--shoot me now!), and a complete list of all the available clips on You Tube. The Roches are at their best live, and there are a plethora of clips from their shows available (though, not, alas, the clip of them performing The Hallelujah Chorus on Saturday Night Live--which was the first time a musical group on SNL got a standing ovation). I've also included one-offs, a cover, and a sample (the one I couldn't find is Phoebe Snow's wonderful cover of "The Married Men").
Song list:
from SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS (Philip Glass, 1986)
--Liquid Days, Part I
[written by Philip Glass/David Byrne]
all vocals by The Roches
--Forgetting
[written by Philip Glass/Laurie Anderson]
lead vocal by Linda Ronstadt
backing vocals by The Roches
from TIME AND LOVE: THE MUSIC OF LAURA NYRO (Various Artists,1997)
--The Roches - Wedding Bell Blues
from ENDLESS HIGHWAY: THE MUSIC OF THE BAND (Various Artists, 2007)
--The Roches - Acadian Driftwood
from BLEECKER STREET: GREENWICH VILLAGE IN THE 60'S (Various Artists, 1999)
--Maggie & Suzzy Roche - The Love's Still Growing
from VIRGINS AND PHILISTINES (The Colourfield, 1985)
--cover of Hammond Song
from I MEGAPHONE (Imogen Heap, 1998)
--The song "Useless, which contains samples of the Roches performance
on "Songs from Liquid Days".
Quality - VBR [192-320 kbs]

http://rapidshare.com/files/197484522/The_Rs_-_Ephemera.rar

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