Poor Old Lu was one of the pioneer alternative Christian bands in the North… Read Full Bio ↴Poor Old Lu was one of the pioneer alternative Christian bands in the Northwest. Just sophomores in the spring of 1990, Nick Barber, Aaron Sprinkle & Scott Hunter began playing under the name 'Bellbangvilla'. The group threw together a 9-song first album named 'In Love with the Greenery'. A few months later Jesse Sprinkle joined the band.
In the summer of 1991, the band officially changed its name to Poor Old Lu, which is taken out of the first book in C.S.Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe. In spring of 1992 the group released their first full-length demo entitled Star-Studded Super Step. After Aaron & Jesse's father passed their demo to Randy Stonehill, the group was signed to Alarma Records in the summer of 1993.
Their first album released with Alarma Records was entitled Mindsize, a critically praised release from the foursome. The next summer the band regrouped to record their second album. Wanting to capture a more raw sound on the record, the group teamed up with engineer & producer John Goodmanson. Simply called Sin, the group released the album to high reviews and a growing fan base.
In the midst of their constant touring at this time, the group took about a month in the late spring of 1995 to record an elusive experimental EP entitled Straight Six. The EP saw new musical steps for the group as well as guest vocals from Jeremy Enigk and a cover of The Swoon's Speak Soft.
After an unsuccessful tour in the summer of 1995, the band's financial status forced the group to gain part-time or full-time jobs to help keep the group and their families afloat. With less time for shows and writing music, the group didn't start to seriously talk again of next album until the spring of 1996. Already the band had started tossing around the idea that this album might be their last album and shutting things down altogether. With a few songs in hand, the group entered the studio with Gene Eugene mixing and co-producing the album. Diverse as their previous albums, A Picture of the Eighth Wonder was released as the band began talking about their impending split. As a way for the band to reminisce once more over the years, in November of 1996 in front of packed house in Wallingford, WA the group played its farewell concert. Recorded and later released the next year, In Their Final Performance captures the memorable evening from a group who knew their time had finally come.
In the years following the disbanding, the group released a self-selected greatest hits disc entitled Chrono: 1993-1998, which featured a number of remixes of fan favorite songs. Five years after the group went their ways, these four high-school friends rejoined for a single album with Tooth & Nail Records. In 2001 the group released their last disc, The Waiting Room. Released to mixed reviews, the group did minimal tour support for the album.
Since Poor Old Lu almost all of the band members have gone on within some musical project in one way or another. In 1997 Nick Barber and Aaron Sprinkle formed the group Rose Blossom Punch with two other friends. Released through Sara Bellum Records, Ephemere was released to good reviews. Yet the group suffered through a number of label issues which not only delayed their next album, but eventually altogether shelved the album entirely. Offered eventually as limited-time download through MP3.COM, by the time the six-song EP entitled Sorry To Disappoint You was released the band had long been disbanded and Aaron Sprinkle had begun his solo career, releasing his debut solo disc Moontraveler. Aaron went on to release three more albums: The Kindest Days, Bareface, and a greatest hits disc Lackluster.
Both Aaron Sprinkle and Jesse Sprinkle released solo discs over the next few years, with Aaron also starting to produce records for Tooth & Nail Records.
In 2006 Nick Barber and Aaron Sprinkle once again rejoined, adding Erick Newbill and Joey Sanchez as the group Fair. The group released their debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario to solid reviews. To all Poor Old Lu fans out there, the album gives hope that we'll be able to enjoy this favorite group in some form or fashion for the foreseeable future.
In the summer of 1991, the band officially changed its name to Poor Old Lu, which is taken out of the first book in C.S.Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe. In spring of 1992 the group released their first full-length demo entitled Star-Studded Super Step. After Aaron & Jesse's father passed their demo to Randy Stonehill, the group was signed to Alarma Records in the summer of 1993.
Their first album released with Alarma Records was entitled Mindsize, a critically praised release from the foursome. The next summer the band regrouped to record their second album. Wanting to capture a more raw sound on the record, the group teamed up with engineer & producer John Goodmanson. Simply called Sin, the group released the album to high reviews and a growing fan base.
In the midst of their constant touring at this time, the group took about a month in the late spring of 1995 to record an elusive experimental EP entitled Straight Six. The EP saw new musical steps for the group as well as guest vocals from Jeremy Enigk and a cover of The Swoon's Speak Soft.
After an unsuccessful tour in the summer of 1995, the band's financial status forced the group to gain part-time or full-time jobs to help keep the group and their families afloat. With less time for shows and writing music, the group didn't start to seriously talk again of next album until the spring of 1996. Already the band had started tossing around the idea that this album might be their last album and shutting things down altogether. With a few songs in hand, the group entered the studio with Gene Eugene mixing and co-producing the album. Diverse as their previous albums, A Picture of the Eighth Wonder was released as the band began talking about their impending split. As a way for the band to reminisce once more over the years, in November of 1996 in front of packed house in Wallingford, WA the group played its farewell concert. Recorded and later released the next year, In Their Final Performance captures the memorable evening from a group who knew their time had finally come.
In the years following the disbanding, the group released a self-selected greatest hits disc entitled Chrono: 1993-1998, which featured a number of remixes of fan favorite songs. Five years after the group went their ways, these four high-school friends rejoined for a single album with Tooth & Nail Records. In 2001 the group released their last disc, The Waiting Room. Released to mixed reviews, the group did minimal tour support for the album.
Since Poor Old Lu almost all of the band members have gone on within some musical project in one way or another. In 1997 Nick Barber and Aaron Sprinkle formed the group Rose Blossom Punch with two other friends. Released through Sara Bellum Records, Ephemere was released to good reviews. Yet the group suffered through a number of label issues which not only delayed their next album, but eventually altogether shelved the album entirely. Offered eventually as limited-time download through MP3.COM, by the time the six-song EP entitled Sorry To Disappoint You was released the band had long been disbanded and Aaron Sprinkle had begun his solo career, releasing his debut solo disc Moontraveler. Aaron went on to release three more albums: The Kindest Days, Bareface, and a greatest hits disc Lackluster.
Both Aaron Sprinkle and Jesse Sprinkle released solo discs over the next few years, with Aaron also starting to produce records for Tooth & Nail Records.
In 2006 Nick Barber and Aaron Sprinkle once again rejoined, adding Erick Newbill and Joey Sanchez as the group Fair. The group released their debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario to solid reviews. To all Poor Old Lu fans out there, the album gives hope that we'll be able to enjoy this favorite group in some form or fashion for the foreseeable future.
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Poor Old Lu Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Poor Old Lu:
A Better Me This song is definitely one of the 'filler' tracks on…
A Month Of Moments It swept me in and tossed me out, I fear And…
All Pretty for the T.V We had recorded this song once before at Innovations Music…
Bittersweet One of the most notable features of this song is…
Bliss Is It seems that every Lu album had at least one…
Bones Are Breaking This song has always been one of my favorites, for…
Cannon-Fire Orange This song has undergone a few changes over the years.…
Center of Your Ways These wonderful words Are not magical Oh so spiritual And in…
Chance For The Chancers Everything's gonna be okay He's gonna wipe those fears away …
Come To Me A very nice acoustic piece written by Jesse. Matthew 1…
Complain I don't remember where this song came from... it was…
Crowded There are a million things That want the best of me Now…
Cruciality Another one of the last songs written for Mindsize, it…
Crushed On top of the world I am proud In my heaven A star…
Digging Deep Always one of our more popular songs. I suppose that…
Do I? 'Do I?' was one of the last songs written for…
Enough One of the more peculiar things we've done is in…
For The Love of My Country The thing that sticks out about this song, of course,…
Friday To Sunday Darkness fell across the land Our hope fell in the sand And…
Hello Sunny Weather This song is probably most notable (to me) for being…
Hope For Always Perhaps our song with the highest "twang factor", Hope For…
I Am No Good This song offended some. Not the music, of course, but…
In Love With The Greenery Definitely the oldest song on the album, it was originally…
Joy I Had Was Joy I Sold There isn't much to say about this song. It seems…
Lie Lie Lie 'Lie, Lie, Lie' hearkens back to those great songs of…
More Oblivious to some things more in store And when I wept…
Morë As one of the last songs written for Mindsize, we…
My World Falls Down Arguably the most popular Lu song - at least in…
Never Said in the summer's chill we say the winter kills but we don't…
Now Don't dream of hours gone by Of seconds came and spent Don't…
Peapod Another song that was first released on our 1992 independent…
Praying For The Perfect World I see You are merciful I see You are kind I see…
Rail Definitely not the usual way to start an album, but…
Receive Tell the jury Tell the judge Tell the world Mom and dad You …
Revolve It promises much It promises you'll never be cold The words …
Ring True What is this? Through strange and bad It does not touch th…
Shine What is it like when it's gone? All the day and…
Sickly 'Sickly' was written entirely in the studio over the course…
Slipknot Of all the Poor Old Lu songs to show up…
Slow This song is probably one of the 'filler' tracks on…
So Good To See Me This song never really went anywhere. Definitely the song th…
Sometimes Cry Another song that had been recorded previously, it first app…
Speak Soft (lyrics by The Swoon) A wonderful song. Although The Swo…
Sunlight & Shadows I've been mixed in dark and light today, you know And…
The Waiting Room She was staring at the ceiling I was staring at the…
The Weeds That Grow Around My Feet Wrapped up in my self instead And if I fall this…
This Theatre this theatre is so run down the grabbing hands oh the peo…
Thoughtless Much of the songwriting for 'Sin' can be broken up…
Tigger's Daily Jog This quick little ditty came out of a late night…
To Be Awake First released on Star-Studded-Super-Step, 'To Be Awake' was…
Today It is the sweetest thing to know that To know it…
Tried & True This song was one of the tracks that had some…
What if Uncle Ben Had Lived This song has always had a very emotional vibe to…
Where Were All Of You As one of the successful singles off of 'Sin', 'Where…
[Tigger's Daily Jog] This quick little ditty came out of a late night…
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