In the art of rock, there can be no pussyfooting around. Written in 1985, aimed squarely at tyrants, oppressors and loud-talking, strong-arm boors of all stripes, “Suffering the Sadist” is razor sharp and fully updated for 2025’s game of fools. Now as then and forever forward, we have no time, respect, or sympathy for bullies.

On the flip side, "Pointless Youth" is a previously unreleased track recently unearthed and reconstructed with additional recording. Both tracks are late-phase B Pictures, post-punk, pop-adjacent, and bristling with nerve.

Play LOUD!

Jeffrey Bright – voice, keyboards
Jim Harper – guitar
Paul Comstock – bass
Kevin Fennell – drums

Initial recordings:
A basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio
1985

Restoration, additional recording,
mixing, mastering:
Jeffrey Bright / JABMA
Studio La Casa
San Francisco, California
2019–2025

Cover art & design – Jeffrey Bright

c) 1985 B Pictures
p) 2025 JABMA
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

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B Pictures – Suffering the Sadist

Noir crooner Jeffrey Bright crafts E-Bone Schulz's (aka Harlan T Bobo) early 90's acoustic guitar sketch for the Sunshine Boys into a fully realized pandemic-era anthem staring down the "sorrow and shame" of our era's assorted inhumanities and calamitous disasters natural and unnatural, man made and not.

voice, keyboard – Jeffrey Bright
guitar – E-Bone Schulz

words – Bright
music – Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo)

© 2024 Jeff Bright & the Sunshine Boys
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Without a Name

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Gary D King remix for JABMA; originally recorded in 1986 and released as "Be" on the 1987 LP The Pleasures Pale!

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Jeff Keating

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Be What You Are

Be What You Are (Gary D King Remix)

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA edit and remix; originally recorded in 1987 and released in 2021 on the EP Twitch

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Timothy Peyton Earick

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Only the Rich Can Really Twitch

Gary D King edit and remix for JABMA; originally recorded in 1986 and released on the 1987 LP The Pleasures Pale!

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Mitchell Swann
bass – Luis Lerma
drums – Jeff Keating

words – Bright
music – Swann & Lerma

© 1987 The Pleasures Pale
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

My Town Has No Cafés (Gary D King Remix)

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA 2025 remix and single a-side version; originally released in 2021 on the LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me; originally recorded in 1992

voice – Jeffrey Bright 
guitar – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher

words & music – Bright

© 1992 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

I'd Print Lots More Money

Jeffrey Bright/JABMA 2025 mix and single b-side version; originally released in 2021 on the LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me; originally recorded in 1992

voice, keyboard – Jeffrey Bright 
guitar – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher

words – Bright 
music – Bobo

© 1992 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

The Future So Bright and Gold

Written and recorded in a basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio, in 1985. Play it LOUD!

Voice, keyboards – Jeffrey Bright
Guitar – Jim Harper 
Bass – Paul Comstock
Drums – Kevin Fennell

Words – Bright
Music – Harper, Comstock, Fennell

Suffering the Sadist

Written and recorded in a basement somewhere northeast of Dayton, Ohio, in 1985. Play it LOUD!

Voice, keyboards – Jeffrey Bright
Guitar – Jim Harper
Bass – Paul Comstock
Drums – Kevin Fennell

Words – Bright
Music – Harper, Comstock, Fennell

Pointless Youth

Myself a Living Torch in 1992-93; from the 2021 LP Instant Karma Cannot Get Me

voice – Jeffrey Bright
guitars – Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo) 
bass guitar – Chris Green 
drums – Christopher Fisher  

words & music – Bright 

© 1992-93 Myself a Living Torch
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

Instant Karma Cannot Get Me

Show Me a Pearl

Charming the Pants off of Lucy

JABMA is a label for the music created and performed by Jeffrey Alan Bright with a series of indie/alternative bands in Dayton, Ohio and San Francisco, California beginning in 1984 and ending in late 1999. Those acts include B Pictures and The Pleasures Pale in Dayton, and Darke County, Myself a Living Torch and finally Jeff Bright & The Sunshine Boys in San Francisco.

Pointless Youth

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