Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation (1996) (Jesus Lizard/Superchunk/Mekons)

Artist: Various Artists
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Product Summary
Label: Touch & Go (exclusive)
UPC: 00036172083022
Release Date: 4/30/1996
Buy.com Sku: 60001047
Item#: MWRT6K
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Uncommonly Good - The Jesus Lizard ~ Various Artists
2. Killers - Shellac ~ Various Artists
3. Whole Hog - Sebadoh ~ Various Artists
4. Rivers And Plains - June Of 44 ~ Various Artists
5. Wood Bee - The Coctails ~ Various Artists
6. Beneath A Festering Moon - Guided By Voices ~ Various Artists
7. Mark Price P.I. - Archers Of Loaf ~ Various Artists
8. Wild Bill Jones - Bad Livers ~ Various Artists
9. Attack On Love - The Coctails/Yo La Tengo (live) ~ Various Artists
10. Axcerpt - The Mekons ~ Various Artists
11. Fader Rules - Superchunk ~ Various Artists
12. Prizefighters, The - Seam ~ Various Artists
13. Restless Waters - Tortoise ~ Various Artists
14. Those Pearls... - Rachel's ~ Various Artists



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Lounge Ax is a nightclub in Chicago which faces the threat of shutdown by zoning and liquor authorities. LOUNGE AX DEFENSE AND RELOCATION CD is an effort by Touch & Go Records and some of the club's regular acts to help pay its legal fees. All of the tracks are previously unreleased.
Personnel: Lou Barlow (vocals, guitar); Christian Frederickson (viola); Eve Miller (cello); John Upchurch (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Rachel Grimes (piano); Jason Noble (vibraphone); Kevin Coultas (drums); Barry Phipps (Theremin).
Photographer: Marty Perez.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Jason Loewenstein; Bob Fay.
Arranger: Bad Livers.
The well-loved, fun Chicago club Lounge Ax ran into big legal bills fighting the city and a nasty neighbor trying -- and fortunately failing -- to close it. Thus, the club (and classy Touch & Go) put together this CD to help pay the lawyers, asking the many renowned underground touring acts that play there to contribute. Regrettably, none of the bands are recorded live at the smokin' club, but this is still a strong array of indie-minded rock. Sebadoh turns in one of the band's lesser songs, and Shellac's offering is too short. But Superchunk, Seam, and the Archers of Loaf (instrumental) come through, Guided By Voices sounds idiosyncratic and fresh on the unreleased "Beneath a Festering Moon," and newcomer June of '44 is down and dirty. Also doing their part: the Coctails, the Bad Livers, Yo La Tengo, the Mekons, Tortoise, and Rachel's. ~ Jack Rabid

Producer: Danny Barnes

Engineer: Danny Barnes; Geoff Turner; Tim O'Heir; Wally Gagel; Bob Weston

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 04/30/1996
Original Release Date : 1996
Catalog ID : 130
Label : Touch & Go
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 45m : 36s
Studio/Live : Mixed
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00036172083022

 
Professional Reviews
Option (7-8/96, p.115)
- "...not a throwaway in the batch..."

NME (Magazine)
(5/4/96, p.54)
- 7 (out of 10)
- "...a fairly comprehensive cool selection of exclusive tracks....Plenty of that sleek, brooding slowcore so beloved by the malcontents of Chicago and Louisville, Kentucky....Excellent stuff..."

  
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