Galaxie 500 - Today (+ Uncollected CD)
Country: U.S.Label: 20|20|20
Released: 30 March 2010
Genre: Shoegaze / Indie-Rock / Rock
Details:
Includes “Instrumental” by Galaxie 500 the featured song in the upcoming Honda Acura television campaign!
Hailed in Boston as a masterpiece, “Tugboat” set the stage for Galaxie 500’s first album, Today, which they recorded with Kramer (for $750) in the summer of 1988. Melody Maker called the LP “an astonishing debut by anybody’s standards,” and indeed it is. The incredible, supple beauty that Galaxie spun like straw was so sweetly melancholic that it all but smothered you. Damon’s drums drift with the simmering presence of jazz classicism, Naomi’s bass is rich with dreamy emotional content, Dean’s guitar completes the aural landscapes begun by ‘69-era Sterling Morrison, and the vocals emerge from the Ouija board of eternity. A highlight of Today is the incredible primal-drone-hunch treatment the band gives to Jonathan Richman’s “Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste.” The three extra tracks from this session, included on the box set, would have made Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore fiercer in his declaration of Today as “my favorite guitar record of 1988.”
Product Description
2010 2 CD, reissue of this landmark album, originally released in 1988. When Galaxie 500’s Today was released, it set off a chain reaction of quiet explosions still being felt. Never before had a record so emphasized the calming elements of Rock music, transforming what at first seems like a collection of bridges into fully realized songs. And one can draw a straight line from here to the many groups they influenced, like Low, Belle & Sebastian, and Bon Iver. Today is full of idiosyncrasies.
Tracklisting:
DISC 1 for Today
1 Flowers
2 Pictures
3 Parking Lot
4 Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste
5 Temperature’s Rising
6 Oblivious
7 It’s Getting Late
8 Instrumental
9 Tugboat
10 King of Spain
DISC 2 for Uncollected
1 Cheese and Onions
2 Them
3 Final Day
4 Blue Thunder
5 Maracas Song
6 Crazy
7 Jerome
8 Song in 3
9 Oblivious
10 I Can’t Believe It’s Me
11 Walking Song
12 Other Side, The
13 On the Floor
14 Rain/Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste
