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Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
Studio album by Truly
Released	June 20, 1995
Recorded	1992–1994
Studio	Avast! Bad Animals Isolation The Ranch Robert Lang (Seattle) Magic Shop (New York City)
Genre	Grunge hard rock psychedelic rock
Length	71:43
Label	Revolution Capitol Sub Pop
Producer	Adam Kasper John Agnello Jon Auer Truly
Truly chronology
Heart and Lungs (1991) Fast Stories...from Kid Coma (1995) Feeling You Up (1997)
Singles from Fast Stories...from Kid Coma
"Blue Flame Ford" Released: 1995

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is the debut studio album by the American rock band Truly, released in 1995 through Capitol Records imprint Revolution. The vinyl edition was handled by Sub Pop. Truly later released a 2020 remaster of the album on their Bandcamp page with the track "Aliens on Alcohol" being restored to the track listing.

Concept

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma is loosely a concept album, about a comatose kid "reliving a past summer of grandeur."

Release and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Drowned in Sound	9/10
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Kerrang!

Fast Stories...from Kid Coma was released in the United States through Capitol/Revolution on June 20, 1995. The album was released in Europe by Parlophone Records in February 1996, following criticism from Kerrang! over its lack of availability in the UK in November 1995.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote that the album "mixes hard rock with the atmospheric early '70s psychedelia of Pink Floyd." MTV called it "the great psychedelic hard rock rush of the year." Trouser Press wrote: "Heavy but never bludgeoning, melodic but never cheesy, excessive but never ridiculous, Fast Stories is an extended trip into several of rock’s outer dimensions."

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a hard-hitting, insistent record that occasionally overreached in its attempts to distance itself from its contemporaries." Loudwire ranked the album at twenty-sixth in their list of "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time". Kerrang! wrote that Fast Stories...from Kid Coma "remains a genuinely vital album, and quite possibly the genre’s swan song." Louder Sound named the album in their list of "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums".

Track listing

1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
10. "Virtually" - 4:48
11. "So Strange" - 5:06
12. "Strangling" - 5:33
13. "Chlorine" - 11:27

12″ vinyl track listing / Fast Stories... from Kid Coma (2020 Remaster) track listing

1. "Blue Flame Ford" - 6:18
2. "Four Girls" - 4:28
3. "If You Don't Let It Die" - 3:50
4. "Hot Summer 1991" - 5:55
5. "Blue Lights" - 4:12
6. "Leslie's Coughing up Blood" - 3:41
7. "Hurricane Dance" - 8:10
8. "Angelhead" - 4:47
9. "Tragic Telepathic (Soul Slasher)" - 3:34
10. "Aliens on Alcohol" - 4:51
11. "Virtually" - 4:48
12. "So Strange" - 5:06
13. "Strangling" - 5:33
14. "Chlorine" - 11:27

Personnel

References

1. ^ Sprague, David (May 13, 1995). "Capitol Shows Faith In Seattle's Truly". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 19. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 20. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
2. Adams, Gregory (May 14, 2015). "'Singles' Soundtrack to Get Expanded Reissue?". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
3. Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 337. ISBN 978-1-62788-379-5.
4. Kurutz, Steve. "Fast Stories...from Kid Coma - Truly | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
5. Lancaster, Nick (May 5, 2001). "Truly - Fast Stories... From Kid Coma". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on November 6, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2021.
6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. MUZE. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
7. ^ Dowse, Clare (November 18, 1995). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 572. EMAP. p. 44.
8. Anon. (February 3, 1996). "Ad Focus" (PDF). Music Week: 28. Retrieved April 10, 2024 – via worldradiohistory.com.
9. Evans, Liz (December 2, 1995). "Something to Believe In". Kerrang!. No. 574. EMAP. pp. 40–41.
10. "High-powered Truly plays Shark Club". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 10 June 1995. p. 9D.
11. "Truly Are Truly Great". MTV. June 8, 1995. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
12. Aswad, Jem; Robbins, Ira. "Truly". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
13. "The 30 Best Grunge Albums of All Time". Loudwire. May 24, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
14. "10 lesser known grunge albums you should own". Kerrang!. January 5, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
15. Leivers, Dannii (June 15, 2020). "10 obscure but absolutely essential grunge albums". Louder Sound. Retrieved November 6, 2021.

• Truly albums
• 1995 debut albums
• Sub Pop albums
• Albums produced by Adam Kasper
• Albums produced by John Agnello