| Product Summary | | Label: Ryko | | UPC: 00014431037320 | | Release Date: 4/29/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 60015541 | | Item#: M45GWV | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Decomposing Trees ~ Galaxie 500 |  | | 2. Fourth Of July ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 3. Summertime ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 4. Sorry ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 5. When Will You Come Home ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 6. Spook ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 7. Listen, The Snow Is Falling ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 8. Here She Comes Now ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 9. Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste ~ Galaxie 500 | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Galaxie 500: Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (vocals, bass); Damon Krukowski (drums, percussion, background vocals). | | Recorded live at Barbue, Copenhagen, Denmark on December 1, 1990. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley. | | Personnel: Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (vocals); Damon Krukowski (percussion, background vocals). | | Liner Note Author: Byron Coley. | | Recording information: Barbue, Copenhagen, Denmark (12/01/1990). | | Photographer: Richard Bellia. | | A presumably final punctuation mark on Galaxie 500's work, Copenhagen, released in 1997, is actually a recording from the last date of the band's late 1990 European tour, captured for radio broadcast in the Danish capital in front of a vocally appreciative crowd. One main reason to listen in is hearing how the band's studio approach clearly differed from the concert arena -- while Kramer handles the live sound, the cocooning web of reverb familiar from the records isn't present here. As a result, the performances have a more direct approach, Wareham's voice a little more naked, his thoughts on emotional connection, and the oddities of life easier to capture. Yang's bass gains in prominence as well, almost more so than Wareham's guitar at points, while Krukowski as always keeps the beat well, adding subtle flourishes and touches as he goes. All this would be mere technical notation if the performance itself wasn't worthy, though, and that it is. Touring for This Is Our Music as the trio was, the set list is mostly focused on that, though a fine version of "Decomposing Trees" starts things off. Three of the band's favored covers close the set -- Yoko Ono's "Listen, the Snow Is Falling," the Velvet Underground's "Here She Comes Now," and a version of Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" that provides a great final kick. For all the excellence of the show, one can hear a little more than once in Wareham's soloing what Yang and Krukowski later described as his tendency to play the big rock star toward the end of the band's life. It's not bad work, but the cracks were starting to show. Longtime Galaxie 500 fanatic Byron Coley provides the detailed essay in the booklet, a useful history of the group and its influence. ~ Ned Raggett | | Galaxie 500 was a master of its art. Its simple pop songs are the foundation of an intricate universe that seduces listeners with layers of dreamy guitars, jazzy percussion, and translucent vocals. The band lets a song's tension build, and then manipulates it in appealing directions. On COPENHAGEN, recorded live by Danish National Radio in 1990, the trio drifts through stellar originals, and tries its hand at covers, including a brooding version of The Modern Lover's "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste." Long compared with The Velvet Underground, it's no surprise to hear the band tackle "Here She Comes Now," but Galaxie 500's version is uniquely its own. | | Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is why the band broke up shortly after this recording. Galaxie 500 helped pave the way for American indie rock in the late '80s/early '90s. While the rest of the world was celebrating REM (or lip synching to Bon Jovi records), Galaxie 500 held true to its own unique vision. Though each member went on to make outstanding music elsewhere (Luna/Damon & Naomi), Galaxie 500's career was as influential as it was disappointingly brief. |
Producer: Anders Dohn; Anders Dohn |
Engineer: Peter Molander Christensen; Peter Molander Christensen |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/29/1997 | | Original Release Date : 1997 | | Catalog ID : 10373 | | Label : Rykodisc | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 53m : 17s | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00014431037320 |
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