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All Music Guide - Ned Raggett
Galaxie 500's debut doesn't merely live up to the sweet promise of the band's debut single "Tugboat," Today's final song, but almost without trying becomes its own gently powerful touchstone. While the influences are clear -- third album Velvet Underground, early non-dance New Order, psychedelic haze and fuzz thanks to the reverb Kramer piled on as producer -- the resulting brew easily stands on its own. By never feeling the need to conventionally rock out, the Damon Krukowski/Naomi Yang rhythm section comes up with its own brand of intensity. Sometimes the two are persistently skipping along without Krukowski having to bash the hell out of the drums (the downright ...
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All Music Guide - Ned Raggett
Galaxie 500's debut doesn't merely live up to the sweet promise of the band's debut single "Tugboat," Today's final song, but almost without trying becomes its own gently powerful touchstone. While the influences are clear -- third album Velvet Underground, early non-dance New Order, psychedelic haze and fuzz thanks to the reverb Kramer piled on as producer -- the resulting brew easily stands on its own. By never feeling the need to conventionally rock out, the Damon Krukowski/Naomi Yang rhythm section comes up with its own brand of intensity. Sometimes the two are persistently skipping along without Krukowski having to bash the hell out of the drums (the downright delightful "Oblivious" is a good example), other times they simply play it soft and slow. Meanwhile, Dean Wareham's low-key chiming and slightly lost, forlorn singing, at places wry and whimsical, often achingly sad, forms the perfect counterpoint to the songs' paces, feeling like a gauzy dream. When he comes up with his own brand of electric guitar heroics, it's very much in the Lou Reed vein of less being more, setting the mood via strumming and understated but strong soloing. One particular descendant gets honored with a cover version: Jonathan Richman, whose "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" is turned into a deceptively calm epic, with marvelous playing by all three members. It's easier to lose oneself in the flow of the sound rather than worry about any deep meaning, making the stronger images that come to the fore all that more entertaining, like "watching all the people fall to pieces" in "Parking Lot." "Tugboat" itself, meanwhile, remains as wonderful as ever, a cascading confession of love at the expense of everything else, somehow mournful and triumphant all at once. [The 2010 reissue on Krukowski and Yang's label 20/20/20 adds a second disc that duplicates the Uncollected disc of unreleased tracks and rarities that was originally a part of the Rykodisc's Galaxie 500 box set, then a separate release.]
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/30/2010
  • Label: 20/20/20
  • UPC: 600197100820
  • Catalog Number: 7
  • Sales rank: 37,563

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Flowers (4:27)
  2. 2 Pictures (3:25)
  3. 3 Parking Lot (2:53)
  4. 4 Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (6:49)
  5. 5 Temperature's Rising (5:06)
  6. 6 Oblivious (3:18)
  7. 7 It's Getting Late (3:30)
  8. 8 Instrumental (3:06)
  9. 9 Tugboat (3:54)
  10. 10 King of Spain (4:35)
Disc 2
  1. 1 Cheese and Onions (3:05)
  2. 2 Them (3:42)
  3. 3 Final Day (2:54)
  4. 4 Blue Thunder (3:46)
  5. 5 Maracas Song (3:53)
  6. 6 Crazy (1:54)
  7. 7 Jerome (2:46)
  8. 8 Song in 3 (3:25)
  9. 9 Oblivious (3:21)
  10. 10 I Can't Believe It's Me (3:57)
  11. 11 Walking Song (2:51)
  12. 12 The Other Side (4:55)
  13. 13 On the Floor (2:49)
  14. 14 Rain/Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (8:53)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Galaxie 500 Primary Artist
Ralph Carney Tenor Saxophone
Dean Wareham Guitar, Vocals, Group Member
Dave Rick Guitar
Damon Krukowski Percussion, Drums, Group Member
Naomi Yang Bass, Vocals, Group Member
Technical Credits
Galaxie 500 Composer
John Lennon Composer
Paul McCartney Composer
Jonathan Richman Composer
Alan Douches Mastering
Dean Wareham Composer
Naomi Yang Composer
Byron Coley Liner Notes
Perkin Barnes Engineer
Eugène Atget Cover Photo
Marc Alghini Executive Producer
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