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Clem Snide was an alt-country indie rock project from New York, NY and Nashville, TN consisting of songwriter/singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay, and a rotation of musicians. Primarily an outlet for Barzelay, the band consisted chiefly of bassist/cellist Jason Glasser through mid-2006, as well as more recent members including multi-instrumentalist Pete Fitzpatrick, and his cousin Brendan Fitzpatrick.

“Clem Snide” is a character in several novels by William S. Burroughs, including Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, and Exterminator!. The band formed in 1991, when Barzelay wanted an outlet for his songwriting, but separated in 1994 after releasing a couple of 7” singles. A few years later, Barzelay met back up with Glasser and began writing songs again, performing under the name Fruit Key. After adding a bassist and drummer, they reclaimed the name Clem Snide, recorded songs, continued performing, and, in 1998, issued their first album, You Were a Diamond (produced by Adam Lasus) on Tractor Beam Records. This album received some short-term major label attention, enough for Clem Snide to release their second album, Your Favorite Music, on Sire Records, before being dropped prior to the album’s release.

In 2001, Clem Snide released the album The Ghost of Fashion, which received some extra press due to the song “Moment in the Sun” being featured as the theme song for the second season of the NBC program Ed, after the show lost the rights to the Foo Fighters’ “Next Year”.

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End of Love
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Your Favorite Music
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Top Tracks

1	Moment In The Sun full track	286
2	Tears On My Pillow full track	178
3	Fill Me With Your Light full track	164
4	Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievience	153
5	End of Love full track	146
6	Something Beautiful full track	140
7	I Love the Unknown full track	132
8	Jews for Jesus Blues full track	128
9	Joan Jett of Arc full track	115
10	Let's Explode full track	109
11	Ice Cube full track	99
12	Collapse full track	95
13	Chinese Baby full track	93
14	Tiny European Cars full track	90
15	God Answers Back full track	84

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ohmyaustinrich wrote:
last week

Thank you Rocket Science for introducing me to this band.

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ixpata wrote:
September 2008

i love this band. too bad they disbanded, but i recently saw Eef and i like his solo stuff too. his backing band is a bunch of really great guys too.

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lesleyjl21 wrote:
September 2008

that song "something beautiful" is really funny!

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Nicast wrote:
August 2008

Why don't you listen to Eef Barzelay?

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TQuacky wrote:
July 2008

Eef just did an interview with Globecat Music! Check it out here: http://globecat.blogspot.com/2008/07/aleatory-5-eef-barzelay.html

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kkelsey wrote:
May 2008

holy fuck i love this band.

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genericangst wrote:
May 2008

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievience is a cover of a Daniel Johnston song.

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Jharod wrote:
May 2008

art-country

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lenn9o9n wrote:
April 2008

i love the unknown has so much depth....gorgeous song indeed

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oldspeedytomato wrote:
February 2008

Goodbye, Clem Snide. Your totem elk are with me always.

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catfight1980 wrote:
January 2008

Awesome, can't wait for the new album. How come 'lo-fi' isn't a tag? :)

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foldsisgod wrote:
January 2008

Jews For Jesus Blues is an amazing song. such insightful lyrics. love Eef. i'm completely ready for the new cd. Spain already has it. (bastard)

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CharlotRiver wrote:
January 2008

*_*

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joepremier wrote:
January 2008

i saw them just after release of end of love, they were awesome!

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BigRed42 wrote:
December 2007

I saw Eef Barzelay open up for Ben Folds last year in Buffalo and it was awesome! You guys should check out, I Love the Unknown...

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_meandthemajor wrote:
December 2007

They're aren't many comments here. Great band!

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novels wrote:
December 2007

i want to see them live so much...

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rshrestha wrote:
November 2007

strong enough

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PhilBe wrote:
September 2007

Great band, saw them live two years ago and it's still fresh in the memory.

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esshoe wrote:
May 2007

great band eh.

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