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The Avengers (Do you NEED this music? Get it here.)
(1983) CD Presents
Released on LP, CD and cassette.

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1. we are the one
2. car crash
3. i believe in me
4. open your eyes
5. no martyr
6. desperation
7. thin white line
8. money (*this track not on LP)
9. paint it black
10. the american in me
11. white nigger
12. uh-oh
13. second to none
14. cheap tragedies (*this track not on LP)
15. corpus christi
16. fuck you

Penelope Houston: vocals: Greg Ingraham: guitar;
Jimmy Wilsey: bass and vox; Danny Furious: drums and vox.
Recordings from 1977-1979 San Francisco.

Crazy Baby (Do you NEED this music? Get it here.)
Penelope Houston and Pat Johnson
(1994) on Return to Sender, a sub-label of Normal Records, Germany
limited release of 2000 CDs

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1. *another train blues by Pat Johnson
2. scratch by Mary O'Neil
3. *hold me up to the light by Pat Johnson
4. mission tower by Pat Johnson
5. ignition by Pat Johnson
6. *loners of america
7. *soul singers by Pat Johnson
8. pale fire by Pat Johnson
9. wedding waltz by Pat Johnson
10. no easy way down by Carole King/Gerry Goffin
11. *Haight st. girl by Pat Johnson

*five tracks are included in "once in a blue moon"

Penelope Houston: vocals;
Pat Johnson: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards etc.
w/ Jeff Jacks on bass, John Washburn and Clarke Martty on drums
Recorded and mixed at Komotion Studios on June 1, 2, 3, &9th, 1994

Silk Purse (from a sows ear) (Do you NEED this music? Get it here.)
Penelope Houston
(1993) on Return to Sender, a sub-label of Normal Records, Germany
limited release of 2000 CDs

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1. *take care by Alex Chilton
2. *like I do by Mary O'Neil
3. corpus christi
4. *nina
5. (Going to the) Evergreen by Pat Johnson
6. carol of the canyon by Pat Johnson
7. fall back
8. *just like a man
9. on borrowed time
10. on borrowed time (live)
11. water wheel by Pat Johnson
12. putting me in the ground by Pat Johnson
13. hillbilly head dance Traditional

*four tracks are included in "once in a blue moon"

Penelope Houston and her band, plus Pat Johnson.
Recorded at Different Fur Studios by Howard Johnston, Olde West Studios by Peter Eckart, and "the Head" by Ron Gompertz in 1991-92

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1. on borrowed time
2. *like I do by Mary O'Neil
3. honeysuckle
4. father's day
5. white out
6. fall back
7. (Going to the) Evergreen by Pat Johnson
8. intro to rock & roll show by Pat Johnson
9. out past vacaville
10. happy ending
11. just like a man
12. glad im a girl
13. corpus christi
14. *nina
15. *behind your eyes
16. stoli

Penelope Houston and her band. All live recordings from The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1990-91, and *the Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, 1990. With guest performer Beth Custer

Corpus Christi/Take Care
(1994) on iloki records. a 7" vinyl 45rpm
A quieter acoustic version of the Avengers best loved tune "Corpus Christi" backed with the heartwrenching "Take Care" by Alex Chilton. Color cover with two enigmatic photos of PH and an insert designed to please all foot fetishists.
click to read lyrics Corpus Christi

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