TONY ROGERS ENCYCLOPEDIA, VOLUME 1

In January '05, Tony is releasing three brand new recordings to accompany friend and humorist Amy Krouse Rosenthal's spectacular new book, "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life." The songs were recorded by longtime Good engineer Scott Ramsayer and feature John Scholvin on guitar, Blake Cooper on drums, Tad Santos on bass, and Marcin Fahmy on keys. Now you can get all three songs, PLUS other previously unreleased Tony recordings, PLUS previously unreleased Good recordings, PLUS Tony's favorite Good AND solo recordings, all on one massive, totally remastered, 17-song CD that features a total of 7 songs that have never seen the light of day.

It's incredibly difficult to put into words just how bad you want this CD, which features:

1. This Is My Story (new release)
2. A to Z (new release)
3. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (new release)
4. Cash Room B (The Good, "Big Money Makers")
5. Peach Tuxedo (The Good, "What Are You Saving It For?")
6. Throw Away (The Good, "Oft Interred With Their Bones")
7. The Ant Who Steps on Kids (previously unreleased)
8. There Oughta Be a Law (The Good, "Oft Interred With Their Bones")
9. Who Do You Love? (The Good, "What Are You Saving It For?")
10. I Heart Your Brain (The Good, "Milky White")
11. Steven Ramey (The Good, "Breaking Up & Down")
12. Wood (The Good, previously unreleased)
13. Too Much You, Not Enough Me ("Pop Psychology" Soundtrack)
14. If You Wanna Be A Baby (previously unreleased)
15. A Very Precious Xmas (previously unreleased)
16. The Set-Up ("Pop Psychology" Soundtrack)
17. You Gotta Love Somebody ("Pop Psychology" Soundtrack)

POP PSYCHOLOGY: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

If used correctly, Tony's solo CD is guaranteed to save your relationship, or at least hook you up with hot, newly available singles. Full of songs about love, loneliness, and the culture of (duh) pop psychology, this soundtrack to the stage show features orchestral arrangements by John Scholvin, as well as instrumental & vocal performances by members of The Good, Frisbie, Poi Dog Pondering, The Me Decade, Pound Foolish, Down The Line, The Plunging Necklines, The Daniel James Band, Maggie Speaks, The Barking Mad, Swimmer, Cassius Clay, and many, many more. The recordings were engineered by longtime Good collaborator Scott Ramsayer, who also plays piano on the CD.

This is not a rock and roll record in the conventional sense. It's a melodic feast, serving:

1. Sit Right Down and Let's Begin
2. Do You Wanna Be Cured By Oprah?
3. Too Much You, Not Enough Me
4. Have You Read the Book?
5. Mars & Venus
6. My Prescription for You is Me
7. Brick Wall
8. Apology Delayed
9. I'd Love Love
10. My Minivan
11. My Rock and Roll Fantasy
12. Does She Like the Same Movies?
13. The Set-Up
14. You Can Be My Nightlight
15. You Gotta Love Somebody

WRITERS' BLOCK PARTY: ISSUE ONE

What do The Good and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins have in common? We're both on a new "audio magazine" called Writers' Block Party, the brainchild of Chicago writer and all-around good egg, Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It's billed as "the magazine you can enjoy while driving," but when we tried we couldn't find the fairway. Our contribution is an oldie but a Goodie -- "Goodbye If You Die" -- and it closes the CD. Along the way you'll hear 18 tracks that will make you laugh, think, dance, and hit the repeat button. If you'd like to know more about who's on the record and what's it's all about, visit www.writersblockparty.com.

You can pay $17 for the CD at record and bookstores, or you can pay us $7 for one of the few copies Amy gave us in lieu of actual money. Just click on the "Buy It" link and we'll make it easy for you.

BIG MONEY MAKERS

Also available as FREE MP3's on this website, this 3-song collection was recorded in the fall of 2000. It features the hard-rocking Good version of "Oops, I Did It Again" (originally recorded by Britney Spears), a melodic reworking of "The Message" (originally recorded by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five), and the newest Good original on record, "Cash Room B," inspired by a headline in our favorite newspaper, The Onion.

Three lousy bucks for three totally un-lousy songs.

1. Oops, I Did It Again
2. The Message
3. Cash Room B.

WHAT ARE YOU SAVING IT FOR?

Throughout the second half of 1998, The Good recorded a number of songs that seemed destined to appear on the group's 3rd full-length CD. In early 1999, guitarist John Scholvin left the band the remaining foursome decided to abandon those songs in favor of the brand new material that would become "Breaking Up and Down." The 1998 recordings have not seen the light of day, until now. "What Are You Saving It For" is a collection of those recordings, many of them live favorites. It also features the first Good CD-Rom: a live video of The Good performing "Shiny Ass Pants" on the Rob Linkhart Show.

No Good collector worth his sea salt will want to face judgement day without this CD in his collection.

1. Who Do You Love?
2. Getaway Car
3. Peach Tuxedo
4. I Love Hating
5. Put Him Under
6. God Couldn't Save The Princess
7. Pee-Wee Baseball Kiss
8. Ordinary
9. My Name

CD-Rom bonus video:
Live TV performance of Shiny Ass Pants

BREAKING UP & DOWN

When lead guitarist John Scholvin left the band in the spring of '99, songwriters Tony Rogers and Devin Arkin scrapped two years worth of unrecorded material and began writing together for the first time in Good history. With bassist Dave Rothkopf and drummer John Goodman, they spent the summer recording 15 brand new compositions about harsh breakups and unfulfilled visions of glory that add up to the tightest, most collaborative, and poppiest darn album in the entire Good arsenal.

Released in April of 2000 as the 3rd full-length CD by The Good on Jumbo Records, "Breaking Up & Down" was immediately praised by Richard Milne from WXRT radio in Chicago as "masterful... and I mean absolutely." It contains a full hour of music with 15 brand new, original songs, every one of them good:

1. Rebounder
2. I'm A Boy
3. The Deal
4. Star Now
5. Sadderday
6. Fight Song
7. You Have 3 Messages
8. Kinda Forget You
9. Diamond Blue
10. Steven Ramey
11. Something You Said
12. Jenny's Jones
13. All Right, I Don't Care
14. Space Machine
15. One More Show

Read more about the making of Breaking Up & Down

MILKY WHITE

Released in April of 1997 on Whitehouse and Jumbo Records, "Milky White" is a "garish collection of dazzling melodies, haunting minstrelsy, and true musicianship." (Showcase Music Magazine.) Filled with lush rock epics and "stunning powerpop gems that rarely miss" (Noize.com), it's a sprawling album that "aggressively and intelligently takes on Harry Truman, Winnie Mandela, and Minister Farrakhan." (River Cities Reader) "And wins." (Devin)

"Milky White" is available in three delicious flavors - red, yellow, or green - all featuring the same 15 original songs:

1. Tinky McVieux
2. Ten Years After
3. Popular Notions
4. Hang
5. Building on Graves
6. Harry & the Mushroom
7. I Know
8. ay, sent a ferret
9. Shame
10. Blue Rubber Bands
11. Evenin'
12. Atticus
13. I Love Your Brain
14. Canyon
15. Electric Bandaids

Read more about the making of Milky White

OFT INTERRED WITH THEIR BONES

The CD that started it all in September of 1994, "Oft Interred" was the first full-length CD by The Good, and a hit with the midwestern press. WRBU in Indianapolis called it "the best self-produced record ever made." The Illinois Entertainer lauded its "wit, angst... and considerable songwriting talent." Denis Boyles, columnist for Men's Health & Playboy magazines, wrote, "While the music's worth the price of admission, the lyrics are what elevate the disc to must-have status."

Here are the 15 original songs, and yes, you must have them.

1. There Oughta Be A Law
2. What Daddy Did
3. Oh Stephanie
4. Skokie Swift
5. Day At The Beach
6. Comfortable
7. Throw Away
8. Pygmalion
9. Middle Ages
10. Interruption
11. Georgia Avenue
12. Reality & Other Nightmares
13. Found Out
14. Goodbye If You Die
15. Cradle to Fall

Read more about the making of Oft Interred With Their Bones

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