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| 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 |
| 11. Crazy |
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Simple, shimmering, and lovely, the Boston band Galaxie 500made three excellent albums of dreamy guitar-pop during itsshort tenure in the late-1980s indie underground. TODAY, released in 1988, is the trio's first album and it establishesa 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 coverof Jonathan Richman's a capella obscurity "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste", as it established Galaxie 500's talent forplaying covers in a way that claimed the songs as their ownand, 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.
It's also important to note the band's brilliantly embellished coverof Jonathan Richman's a capella obscurity "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste", as it established Galaxie 500's talent forplaying covers in a way that claimed the songs as their ownand, 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.
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