On the opposite of the spectrum, however, is scuzzy 'Careful', which uses an uncomfortable and blaring barely-riff and still manages to make it catchy. On songs like 'Careful', Sebadoh skirt around devolving into noisy jams before surprising the listener with some sort of hook or melody to bring the song back down to earth. Boss Hog is a group led by Jon Spencer (Pussy Galore, Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash, Spencer Dickinson) and partner Cristina Martinez (Pussy Galore) and Boss Hog - Drinkin', Lechin' & Lyin' Mini-Album (1989).
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Released | August 16, 1991 | |||
Recorded | Late March 1991 at Fort Apache Studios and at home. | |||
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Length | 63:37 | |||
Label | Homestead(original release) Domino(2006 reissue) | |||
Producer | Sean Slade | |||
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III was reissued with the Gimme Indie Rock EP included as a bonus disc in 2006 |
III (or Sebadoh III) is the third album by the Americanindie rock band Sebadoh. It was released by Homestead Records in 1991.
III was the first full length Sebadoh album to feature Jason Loewenstein, who joined the band's two founding members Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney in 1989, and debuted on the 'Gimme Indie Rock' single earlier that year.
The album cover features a childhood photograph taken by Gaffney.[1]
- 5Track listing
Recording[edit]
The album was recorded for US$1,300.[1] It was recorded at Fort Apache Studios, then located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and at home, during the last two weeks of March 1991.
Music[edit]
III features songwriting contributions from all three band members, with folky, melodic material by Barlow, open-tuned drone acoustic, and noisy hardcore rock by Gaffney, and songs that bridged the gap between those extremes by Loewenstein.[2] It opens with the electric 'The Freed Pig,' an attack by Barlow on his ex-bandmate J. Mascis, who kicked him out from his former band Dinosaur Jr. in 1989.[3]
In an interview with Chairs Missing Fanzine in April 1991, Barlow explained that the album contained 'Every type [of music] that we're capable of playing but not like, 'Well, here's our funk song and here's our folk song.' It's just every facet of our power is exercised to its fullest on the record ... There's a lot of electric stuff - a lot of 4-track stuff. It's a really balanced LP. This one is truly a group effort.'[1]
Reception[edit]
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | A−[4] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [5] |
Drowned in Sound | 9/10[6] |
Pitchfork | 9.3/10[3] |
Rolling Stone | [7] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10[9] |
III was released a month before Nirvana'smajor label debut, Nevermind, which brought alternative rock to the mainstream. In the wake of Nirvana's breakthrough, many other acts who emerged from the 1980s independent music scene, but remained signed to independent record labels, achieved modest success. Along with Pavement's 1992 debut Slanted and Enchanted, III is considered one of the 'cornerstones of 90s indie rock,' and helped establish the lo-fi subgenre.[2] The album has been included in various best-of lists in the years since its release, including Alternative Press' 'Top 99 of '85–'99' in 1995 (#85) and Spin's 'Top 90 Albums of the 90's' in 1999 (#41).
AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the 'sensitivity' and 'strong melodies' of Barlow's acoustic material, and called the album 'a kaleidoscopic summation of various American underground rock genres of the '80s, as well as a launching pad for the introspective obsessions of '90s indie rock.'[2] Upon its reissue in 2006, Brandon Stosuy of Pitchfork wrote that 'even after taking a step back from III it still deserves every last bit of praise. Sebadoh followed this effort with other fine moments; nowhere else did they so perfectly meld rickety folk, tin-can guitar, Shrimper-style ambiance, feedbacking 'power sludge,' eccentric compositional constructions, carcinogenic hooks, and poetic sincerity.'[3]
'The Freed Pig' was covered by the American indie rock band The Breeders on the Head to ToeEP in 1994.
'Spoiled' was re-released on the Kids soundtrack in 1995, and can be heard during the film's closing credits.
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Reissue[edit]
III was reissued by Domino Records in 2006, featuring a second disc of extra material and new liner notes. The bonus disc includes the 'Gimme Indie Rock' EP in its entirety.
Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Lou Barlow unless otherwise stated.
- 'The Freed Pig' – 3:08
- 'Sickles and Hammers' (Boon, Watt) – 0:50
- 'Total Peace' – 3:02
- 'Violet Execution' – 3:57 (Eric Gaffney)
- 'Scars, Four Eyes' – 3:27 (Gaffney/Barlow)
- 'Truly Great Thing' – 2:13
- 'Kath' – 1:52
- 'Perverted World' – 1:54
- 'Wonderful, Wonderful' (Edwards, Raleigh) – 3:13
- 'Limb by Limb' – 2:17 (Gaffney)
- 'Smoke a Bowl' – 3:02 (Loewenstein)
- 'Black-Haired Gurl' – 2:12 (Loewenstein)
- 'Hoppin' Up and Down' – 3:16 (Loewenstein)
- 'Supernatural Force' – 2:43 (Gaffney)
- 'Rockstar' – 2:42
- 'Downmind' – 1:31
- 'Renaissance Man' – 2:19
- 'God Told Me' – 1:09
- 'Holy Picture' – 2:53 (Gaffney)
- 'Hassle' – 3:30
- 'No Different' – 2:20
- 'Spoiled' – 3:03
- 'As the World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Bigger' – 6:49 (Gaffney)
Extra disc - 'Gimme Indie Rock EP' (2006 reissue)[edit]
All songs written by Eric Gaffney unless otherwise stated.
- 'Gimme Indie Rock' (Barlow/Gaffney/Loewenstein)
- 'Ride the Darker Wave' (Barlow)
- 'Red Riding Good' (Barlow)
- 'New King' (Loewenstein)
- 'Calling Yog Soggoth'
- 'Stored Up Wonder (supernatural force)'
- 'Melting Wall (holy picture)'
- 'Design'
- 'Attention'
- 'Stars For Eyes' (Gaffney/Barlow)
- 'Unseen Waste'
- 'Violet Execution (remix '04)'
- 'As the World Turns'
- 'Cranberry Bog' (Loewenstein/Gaffney)
- 'The Devil's Reggae'
- 'The Freed Pig (4-track)' (Barlow)
- 'Never Jealous' (Barlow)
- 'Showtape '91' (Barlow)
Personnel[edit]
- Lou Barlow – vocals, guitar, bass, percussion
- Eric Gaffney – vocals, guitar, drums
- Jason Loewenstein – vocals, drums, guitar, bass
Additional personnel
- Sean Slade – Mellotron
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2013-02-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ abcdErlewine, Stephen Thomas. 'III – Sebadoh'. AllMusic. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ^ abcStosuy, Brandon (August 7, 2006). 'Sebadoh: III'. Pitchfork. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ^Murray, Noel (August 9, 2006). 'Music in Brief'. The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
- ^Christgau, Robert (2000). 'Sebadoh: Sebadoh III'. Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN0-312-24560-2. Retrieved September 30, 2011.
- ^Edwards, Tom (August 7, 2006). 'Album Review: Sebadoh – III'. Drowned in Sound. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^Hoard, Christian (October 17, 2006). 'Sebadoh: III'. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^Sheffield, Rob (2004). 'Sebadoh'. In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 723–24. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
- ^Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN0-679-75574-8.
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Even before his acrimonious departure from Dinosaur Jr, bassist Lou Barlow was recording his own material. Dinosaur's second album, 1987's You're Living All Over Me, had closed with 'Poledo,' one of Barlow's tape experiments - a chilling mess of funereal folk and disturbing, manipulated found sounds. Lou, it transpires, had been messing about with tape recorders since he was a kid. 'My sisters had one of the first cheap tape-recorders,' he remembers, 'And my cousin showed me that if you half-press the 'ffw' button and the 'record' button and yell into the mic, it'll make this nice stretched-out groaning sound. That cracked me up! I started making cassettes of me playing guitar and singing, real primitive multi-tracking, when I was about twelve. Twenty-five years later, I still have them somewhere.'
As he became more and more estranged from Dinosaur front man J Mascis, Barlow immersed himself in his home-recorded music. He made cassettes and began selling them through small 'indie' record stores. 'I did it for myself, primarily, but with the understanding that other people would find it. It immediately made sense to some people, like Eric Gaffney.' Gaffney, a singer/guitarist/drummer Barlow describes as 'a musical terrorist,' would form the yin to Barlow's yang in Sebadoh for their first two self-released cassettes, The Freed Weed and Weed Forestin. Together, they'd collate impenetrable experiments, fucked-up songs, confessional folk fragments, and collages of ambient and found sounds, bouncing off each other, trying to outdo each other in this explosion of errant creativity. Theirs was a productive, if fraught relationship. Jason 'Jake' Loewenstein, a teenaged musician and home-recorder who'd already purchased Sebadoh tapes, joined the group, and they began to tour. 'It was all about freedom and democracy, this chaos' explains Barlow.
They were hella productive boys, too. This remastered re-release of the album comes bolstered with a disk swollen with tracks recorded around the time of III's sessions. The bonus disk opens with the group's Gimme Indie Rock! EP, it's sardonic title track an ecstatic homage-to/deconstruction-of the burgeoning indie-rock genre, complete with shout-outs to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and even Dinosaur. 'I felt the music of the underground had become one-dimensional, noisy, and I wanted to fashion my own response to that,' Barlow told Mojo magazine, last year. 'I knew I was on the right track, when people said I was a 'pussy' for playing an acoustic guitar. I'd found my new passion: quiet was the new loud.'
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