ANDY PRIEBOY

Happy new year. A gift for you.

Why this song? 

I could have used a lot more love - The idea behind the lyric seems simple. At first listen, it appears it is a lament where I wish I had…

Mount Schtick-More by Drew Friedman. 


1985: 
Lords of the New Church front man, label mate, and friend Stiv Bators tells me the following: 

"If IRS Records ever suggests you guys do a live record, your days are numbered. They'll say…

Wall of Voodoo 1984
London
Uncredited 

Just off the plane from LA.,we are about to start The Lords of the New Church/Wall of Voodoo Tour. We had spent the year carving a new band from the old.  In this photo…

When the Heart Awakes 


Listen to When the Heart Awakes

The first song I wrote from this collection, When the Heart Awakes is a mother's lament. It's a portrait of a troubled woman who gave up custody of her daughter…

Honey Don't Be Good to Me 

Last week, I commented on the title track of Virtue Triumphs. Today, I highligh  the album' second track. Not only is it one of my favorite songs, it is also among the oldest.

          Listen…

Virtue Triumphs When the Devil Sleeps  By Judy Schaechter 

Listen to VIRTUE TRIUMPHS

LOST AND FOUND!  

While  digitizing hundreds   of  old cassettes, I have been able to reconstruct my long lost, unfinished  album: Virtue Triumphs. Started soon after the 1990…

The Song of Music Business Executives Who Reject  An Artistic Endeavor By Applying Positive Reinforcement 
       The Backstory

In the 1980s, an artist needed a record contract. We were dependent on the cash advance that would pay for recording at a…

(These Times Are) Crazy-Crazy​  
Johnette Napolitano, Wire Train, Andy Prieboy. 
1993 

Where I found it: 

While digitizing hundreds of old tapes, I happened upon this song in an unmarked cassette. 
My jaw dropped. I had completely forgotten it. 

Johnette is…

"Footnotes " came to me in a roundabout fashion.  

A while back, a friend of mine was very ill. To cheer him up, I would make recordings. Informal. Songs of mine or cover songs. That sort of thing. One…

BUILD A BETTER GARDEN has a history almost as long as the Book of Genesis itself. 

The original was written about 1993. It took me many weeks and cigarettes to write. In those pre-google days, I put together the list…