Music Artist

The Prefab Messiahs

"Well, the Rolling Stones come to town / Don't throw The Prefab Messiahs out of bounds / God save those dreamers / They're all that's left sometimes" ─ Bobb Trimble, "Armour of the Shroud" ******** [the following is from a leaflet passed out at The Prefab Messiahs' first show, Nov. 1981] "…Was it only 3 or 4 weeks ago that the future PREFAB MESSIAHS first pooled their cosmic energies and talents, and ─ crooning their messages about our Plastic Age ─ decided to totally revolutionize Pop Music? The Concept was shocking in its boldness ─ 4 young men with a Destiny ─ from the Store 24 to Mister Donut their eyes burned with what they saw, even as they lapped it up faster than a small order of McDonald's fries. Reality could not keep the PREFAB MESSIAHS down! Still, if the Media is the Messag

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Catalogue & Listenership

Tracks

Albums

Total audio

55m 15s

FMA listens

56,919

Favourites

117

Avg bitrate

300 kbps

Genre & Licence Profile

Genre	Tracks
Rock	2

Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. — 19

Top Tracks by Listens

Track	Album	Year	Duration	Listens
Desperately Happy	Peace Love & Alienation	2011	3m 05s	8,328
Don't Go to the Party	Devolver	2013	3m 13s	5,447
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	2m 43s	4,762
Beyond All That	Peace Love & Alienation	2011	3m 08s	4,160
Cousin Artie	Devolver	2013	3m 13s	3,568
College Radio	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	3m 18s	3,366
Bobb's Psychedelic Car	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	3m 12s	3,311
Booshwa Sally	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	3m 12s	3,284
Weirdoz Everywhere	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	2m 46s	3,242
Orange Room	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015	2m 32s	3,086

Track Length Distribution

Length	Tracks	Share
Under 1 min	2	10.5%
1–3 min	7	36.8%
3–6 min	10	52.6%

Release Timeline

2011

2013

2015

Collaborators Credited

Xeth Feinberg — 3

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Albums (5)

Album	Released	Type	Tracks	Listens	Producer / Engineer
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive	2015-03-10	Album	16	29,146	The Prefab Messiahs / Doug Tuttle, Jesse Gallagher, Xeth Feinberg ['power pop', 'power-pop', 'indie rock', 'experimental pop', 'indie-rock', 'klyam', 'garage', 'psych-pop', 'klyam record
Devolver	2013-09-25	Album	30	11,332	The Prefab Messiahs, Bobb Trimble / various ['experimental pop', '80s', '1980s', 'the prefab messiahs', 'burger', 'wormtown', 'proto-indie', 'lo-fi', 'psych-rock',
Peace Love & Alienation	2011-11-15	Album	4	13,552	The Prefab Messiahs, Bobb Trimble / Jay Rajeck, Jeff Lipton, Joe Turner ['the prefab messiahs', 'burger records', 'burger', 'bobb trimble', 'garage pop', 'garage', 'garage rock', 'psych', 'wor
Franz Kafka / Prefab Sun	2011-01-18	Album	2	3,322	— ['proto-indie', 'the prefab messiahs', 'garage', 'lo-fi', 'garage rock', 'wormtown', 'almost ready records', 'garage pun
Devolver			0	0	— []

Track Catalogue

19 tracks shown

Track	Album	Genre	Duration	Listens	Licence
Ssydarthurr [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		2m 51s	2,820	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Weirdoz Everywhere [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		2m 46s	3,242	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Orange Room [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		2m 32s	3,086	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
College Radio [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		3m 18s	3,366	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Booshwa Sally [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		3m 12s	3,284	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Bobb's Psychedelic Car [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		3m 12s	3,311	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		2m 43s	4,762	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Prefab Flashing [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive 2015		0m 29s	2,769	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
The 16th Track [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Devolver 2013		5m 21s	2,728	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Cousin Artie [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Devolver 2013		3m 13s	3,568	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Don't Go to the Party [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Devolver 2013		3m 13s	5,447	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Franz Kafka [27, 66, 85, 89]	Franz Kafka / Prefab Sun 2011	Rock	3m 03s	1,500	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Prefab Sun [27, 66, 85, 89]	Franz Kafka / Prefab Sun 2011	Rock	2m 58s	1,836	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. Rec. 1982-08-23
Beyond All That [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Peace Love & Alienation 2011		3m 08s	4,160	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Desperately Happy [27, 66, 76, 85, 89]	Peace Love & Alienation 2011		3m 05s	8,328	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Beyond All That [27, 66, 76, 89]	Devolver		2m 55s	613	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
The 16th Track [66, 76, 89]	Devolver		5m 17s	749	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3. Rec. 1982-01-01
Prefab City Dub (Edit) [27, 66, 76, 79, 89]	Devolver		0m 54s	820	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.
Rice 4 a Sheik [27, 33, 38, 58, 71, 125]	Devolver		1m 05s	530	Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.