The Words Are Still There is a formerly unidentified experimental song by New Jersey based duo Price Group (Jim Price and R. Stevie Moore), released in July of 1983 on the compilation album Friends and Enemies Vol. 1.
Search History[]
The song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm on August 23rd, 2012 along with multiple other unknown songs. He didn’t provide any information about the songs.
On April 13th, 2013, Guglielm commented on a WFMU.org page for a playlist made by radio DJ Terre T. He said all of the songs were recorded off of WFMU "ages ago".[1]
A week later, Guglielm commented on a WFMU playlist made by DJ Bob Brainen, specifying that the songs were recorded 20-30 years prior, specifically between 1981-1984 or 1991-1993, off of WFMU.[2]
Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong on June 16th, 2014. He suggested that it was titled All The Words Are Still There, but said he had no idea who the artist was.
On November 5th, 2022, Discord user Swior discovered the song was a version of The Words Are Still There by Price Group after finding an alternate version on band member R. Stevie Moore’s Bandcamp page. His website credited WFMU DJ Jim Price on the song.
On February 13th, 2023, Discord user Kurty contacted an owner of the Friends and Enemies Vol. 1 cassette compilation, which included the song, the owner sent a video of the first minute and half of the song playing, fully identifying the song as The Words Are Still There by Price Group.
Lyrics[]
All the words are still there
In another green world
In pencil, on paper
The sun of my life
She gives you laughter
But I give you life
In the center of the circle
You cry for attention
You’ll find out how much we
Love you but we can’t tell you
My name is water
You rain down on me
All the words are still there
In another green world
In pencil, on paper
The son of my wife
She gives you laughter
But I give you life
I give you life
I give you life
I give you life
Price Group[]
Price Group was a lo-fi and experimental duo from New Jersey, USA. The duo was Jim Price and R. Stevie Moore/Robert Steven Moore.
In July of 1983, this song and their only other song Let Grandfather Fall on the compilation album Friends and Enemies Vol. 1, which was released by the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, a label founded by Robert.
By himself, Robert released around 400 albums between the years of 1959-2019.
Jim worked as a DJ for WFMU, and Robert worked as a staff member there.
Today, Jim is still a WFMU DJ, and R. Stevie Moore retired from music on December 31st, 2019.
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External Links[]
- Original NWO Post.
- WatZatSong Post.
- Stitched YouTube Link.
- High Quality Snippet.
- Bandcamp Version.
- R. Stevie Moore’s Wikipedia Page.