| Product Summary | | Label: Touch & Go (exclusive) | | UPC: 00036172083022 | | Release Date: 4/30/1996 | | Buy.com Sku: 60001047 | | Item#: MWRT6K | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 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 | |
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| | 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 |
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| | 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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