| Product Summary | | Label: Caroline Distribution | | UPC: 00617465123627 | | Release Date: 11/2/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 63909547 | | Item#: M5UNTH | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. We Live Again - (with Beck) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists |  | | 2. Burned by the Sun - (with Beulah) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 3. Color Bars - (with Earlimart) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 4. Run - (with Snow Patrol) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 5. Wild Was the Night - (with Goldenboy) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 6. Bottom Line Man - (with Giant Sand) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 7. Little Acorn, The - (with Fruit Bats) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 8. Comin' up Empty Again - (with Home) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 9. If We Could Go Backwards - (with Jackpot) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 10. I Fell - (with The Handsome Family) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 11. Sand Canyon - (with Little Wings) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 12. Motion Suggests - (with Pavement) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 13. For the Damaged - (with Blonde Redhead) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 14. Twisted Layers - (with Virgil Shaw) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | | | 15. Nature Anthem - (with Grandaddy) ~ Grandaddy/Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an album of singles picked by Lead singer of Grandaddy, Jason Lytle. | | Various Artists/Grandaddy: Jason Lytle (vocals). | | Twee-jawed indie hippies Grandaddy deliver a pleasantly useless mixtape with Artist's Choice: Below the Radio. Featuring a predictable grab bag of similarly lo-fi precious moments rock, the compilation is primarily lead Grandad Jason Lytle's doing and it plays like a K-Tel commercial for Gen X sad sack-ism. Avoiding any messy iconoclasm, Lytle handpicks various "If you like us, you should really hear this" tracks by Beulah, Earlimart, and others. He's even supplied track-by-track soliloquies written in a conversational tone on why he picked each song. On Beck -- who's "We Live Again" kicks off the disc -- he writes, "a living legend in my eyes," while the Handsome Family's "I Fell" brings on scenes of being "Lost in the out of doors, dementia, and love" and Blonde Redhead's "For the Damaged" reads simply, "Chills..." Although titled Below the Radio, it's hard to argue that artists like Beck and Pavement are exactly left, right, below, or otherwise of the mainstream radio dial. That said, your average Urban Outfitters indie kid might not have yet caught Little Wings' sublimely dippy "Sand Canyon" or waxed rural over Virgil Shaw's depresso alt-country anthem "Twisted Layer." And Lytle has at least chosen lesser-heard album tracks, avoiding any overplayed hits. Considering that most Grandaddy fan faithful probably already own this stuff, Below the Radio largely plays as a big love letter from Lytle to the bands he admires. In the end, that's pretty cool. ~ Matt Collar | | An affectionate mix-CD made by Grandaddy's lead singer Jason Lytle, BELOW THE RADIO compiles songs by some of Lytle's favorite acts, mostly performers that are unlikely to be heard on commercial radio. Though there are a couple of heavy-hitters, Beck and Pavement most notably, the majority of the set culls some of the more intriguing underground bands of the early 2000s, many of which lean toward a laconic, lo-fi, introspective folk-rock sound (an aesthetic that resembles, interestingly enough, Grandaddy's own). | | Blissful, straightforward pop (Beulah's "Burned by the Sun" and Goldenboy's "Wild Was the Night") nicely balances the gravity of tracks like Blonde Redhead's aching, incisive "For the Damaged." Other highlights include "Bottom Line Man," a wistful, idiosyncratic spoken-word ballad by Giant Sand, and the loopy fun of Little Wings' "Sand Canyon," which sounds a bit like Neil Young after too much time at the beach. Lytle tacks on one of Grandaddy's own songs, "Nature Anthem," at the end for good measure, wrapping up this enjoyable sampler of contemporary singer/songwriter-oriented indie rock. |
Producer: Jason Lytle; Dave Fridmann; Garret Lee; Greg Freeman; Howe Gelb; Dave McConnell; Jeff Peters; John Parish; Nigel Godrich; Rusty Miller; Beck; Beulah |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/02/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 1236 | | Label : Ultra Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00617465123627 |
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