| Product Summary | | Label: Ryko | | UPC: 00014431035821 | | Release Date: 4/29/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 60015932 | | Item#: MCNKGW | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24297 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Fourth Of July ~ Galaxie 500 |  | | 2. Hearing Voices ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 3. Spook ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 4. Summertime ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 5. Way Up High ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 6. Listen, The Snow Is Falling ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 7. Sorry ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 8. Melt Away ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 9. King of Spain (part 2) ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 10. Here She Comes Now - (bonus track) ~ Galaxie 500 | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | THIS IS OUR MUSIC is available along with Galaxie 500's two other full-length albums on the 4-CD box set GALAXIE 500 (Rykodisc 10355). | | Galaxie 500: Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (vocals, bass); Damon Krukowski (drums, percussion, background vocals). | | Additional personnel: Kramer (flute, background vocals). | | Recorded at Noise New York, New York, New York in 1990. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley. | | Originally released on Rough Trade. | | On THIS IS OUR MUSIC, Galaxie 500's third and final album, the band continue their deliberately paced, three-chord, Velvet Underground-influenced pop project. Though there's little here to distinguish the album from the group's previous efforts (save perhaps their strikingly straight-faced cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, The Snow Is Falling"--a remarkable feat in itself), THIS IS OUR MUSIC delivers spare, introspective tunes characterized by ghostly moods, 4/4 guitar strums and Dean Wareham's charmingly unaffected, drowsy vocals. | | Surreal lyrics and simple, haunting guitar lines make songs like "Hearing Voices" and "Spook," both lovely and oddly poignant. Shortly after the release of this album, Wareham left Galaxie 500 to mine a similar musical vein with his band Luna. |
| | Artist Overview | | Although the term "shoegazer" is most often associated with British indie bands of the early 1990s, Boston trio Galaxie 500's dreamy, shimmering guitar-pop gave many of its contemporaries across the pond a serious run for their money. The band released only three albums in its brief career, but they remain true gems of early-'90s American indie-rock. Following the band's break-up, guitarist/lead vocalist Dean Wareham went on to form Luna, while the husband-and-wife rhythm section of Naomi Yang (bass) and Damon Krukowski (drums) began performing as a duo under the name Damon & Naomi. |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/29/1997 | | Original Release Date : 1990 | | Catalog ID : 10358 | | Label : Rykodisc (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00014431035821 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | The Bob (Fall/90)
- "...No band could get away with being so fabulously over- the-top unless it was also tremendously disciplined, and Galaxie 500 is--down to its damn near perfect use of percussion. You shouldn't miss this..."(11-12/90)
- "...Imagine the Jesus And Mary Chain (with no distortion or feedback)
crossed with OPAL during those `early recordings'. Now skip down a notch or two on the excitement meter. Don't believe the hype..." NME (Magazine)
- "...timelessly beautiful yet oddly nostalgic..." |
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