1999
1000 compact discs - out of print

1. Braces
2. An Angel Screams From Outer Space
3. My Nubby Sweater
4. The Frog Prince
5. Live Happy, Live With Anorexia
Bonus Tracks
6. Ghost From December
7. My Dependent Sweet
8. Beg You To Be Here

Out of all the albums Stage ever made, this might have been the favorite. The pixie on the cover was by an incredible artist named Peter. I know him from East Hampton. He is a remarkable artist that belongs in galleries and I hope he is pursuing his talent. We recently found a hidden stash of these albums. I remember there was snow on the ground and Peter was walking up my driveway and over a hundred CDs fell out. We washed them and put them away to be forgotten until we recently found them and realized they were not damaged so we recently started selling them and they too are almost gone.

This record was special. In deeper thought, I would say that this album truly represents the two worlds of Stage. There were the magical tracks that were recorded in the basement like “Braces” (went on to be known as Perfect), “An Angel Screams From Outer Space,” “The Frog Prince” and “Ghost From December.” To this day I hear the beauty of just putting up the microphones and recording. Just going for it. The other side was the more polished and organized side of what we did. Often it missed the passion and the honesty that we did on our own without any outside help. “Frog Prince” was again a song that marked us as a great band. It was a piano-based song that that just screamed our mission. “Ghost From December” also had the purest form of Stage in its soul. It was a song inspired by the beach. It was a song that sounded like the beach. “My Dependent Sweet” is still one of my favorite songs. It was a song that I performed all of the instruments on like in my earlier 4-track days. “Beg You To Be Here” was a track that I wrote as I recorded it live. The only time I have ever played it is on the CD. It is truly the first track for “Songs From The Eye Of An Elephant,” just a few years early. The band liked both songs a lot and was cool enough to call them their own.