| Product Summary | | UPC: 00014431035623 | | Release Date: 4/29/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 201985021 | | Item#: M2NTDY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24297 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Flowers ~ Galaxie 500 |  | | 2. Pictures ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 3. Parking Lot ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 4. Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 5. Temperature's Rising ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 6. Oblivious ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 7. It's Getting Late ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 8. Instrumental ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 9. Tugboat ~ Galaxie 500 | | | 10. King Of Spain - (bonus track) ~ Galaxie 500 | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | TODAY is available along with Galaxie 500's two other full-length albums on the 4-CD box set GALAXIE 500 (Rykodisc 10355). | | Galaxie 500: Michael Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (bass); Damon Krukowski (drums). | | Recorded at Noise New York, New York, New York in 1988. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley. | | Simple, shimmering, and lovely, the Boston band Galaxie 500 made three excellent albums of dreamy guitar-pop during its short tenure in the late-1980s indie underground. TODAY, released in 1988, is the trio's first album and it establishes a musical blueprint from which the three rarely deviated, and with good cause. A steady bassline, spare, propulsive drums, and a simple three-chord progression--all this crests beneath lead singer Dean Wareham's distant lilt, and works magic on tracks like the heavily Velvet Underground-esque "Pictures," the bouncy "Oblivious," and the majestic closer "Tugboat," the band's first single. (The excellent b-side, "King of Spain," is included on the Ryko CD reissue.) | | It's also important to note the band's brilliantly embellished cover of Jonathan Richman's a capella obscurity "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste," as it established Galaxie 500's talent for playing covers in a way that claimed the songs as their own and, in the process, extracted a previously unknown beauty from the work. The band's other two studio albums, FIRE and THIS IS OUR MUSIC, are both essential, and all of them make for a fine place to start. Of course, the beginning is as fine a place as any. |
| | 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 : 1988 | | Catalog ID : 10356 | | Label : Rykodisc (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00014431035623 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Alternative Press (7/95, p.92)
- Rated #60 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...TODAY...has a casual cool that's...inviting....Lethargy has never sounded so alive..." |
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