Shudder_To_Think-Live_From_Home-2009-FNT

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FNT

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97,03 MB

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21

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2009-09-18

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      Shudder To Think
  Album:       Live From Home
  Label:       Team Love Records
  Playtime:    69:26 min
  Genre:       Indie
  URL:         http://www.myspace.com/stt1
  Rip date:    2009-09-17
  Street date: 2009-09-15
  Size:        101.74 MB
  Type:        Normal
  Quality:     190 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

   For roughly ten years, mostly coinciding with the '90s, D.C.'s Shudder to
   Think made some of the most intelligent, intricate, and downright interesting
   indie rock around. Craig Wedren's delicate, borderline-falsetto '50s torch
   singer-wail hovered over dark novellas of three-minute songs which ranged
   from the jagged post-hardcore of "Hit Liquor" to the barroom garage punk of
   "X French T-Shirt" to the pure melodic joy of "Red House" (a
   near-pitch-perfect pop single which modern rock radio somehow slept on). It's
   the sort of wide span one might expect from a band who spent time both on
   Dischord and Sony Records. In 1998, bassist Nathan Larson left for solo
   projects and Shudder to Think dissolved. The band was silent until 2007 when
   they re-formed for a one-off at the Mercury Lounge, then re-formed again for
   a short tour in 2008 and kept adding more dates as if in the flush of a
   renewed and cherished love affair. Live from Home, culled from that 2008 tour
   and released by Conor Oberst's Team Love imprint, captures that sort of
   spirit, that of a band who truly missed playing together, energized with the
   glory of rediscovering each other's musical quirks. The album opens on "Red
   House," and the song's deliberate build amps up the excitement and the rock &
   roll Sturm und Drang never lets up. Perhaps it's the pent-up energy of a
   powerful live band, dormant for nearly a decade, whose stage set had never
   been burned to wax, but Live from Home captures the thrill of the show about
   as well as can be done. Shudder to Think's zest in their return is palpable,
   this live recording both a fan essential and a good starting point.

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Dialog                                                            ( 0:36)
  02. Red House                                                         ( 3:36)
  03. Shake Your Halo Down                                              ( 2:35)
  04. Dialog                                                            ( 0:24)
  05. Hit Liquor                                                        ( 4:14)
  06. Love Catastrophe                                                  ( 3:23)
  07. Lies About the Sky                                                ( 5:35)
  08. Jade Dust Eyes                                                    ( 2:17)
  09. Gang of Money                                                     ( 3:47)
  10. She Wears He-Harem                                                ( 2:51)
  11. Rag                                                               ( 3:16)
  12. Pebbles                                                           ( 4:46)
  13. 9 Fingers on You                                                  ( 2:59)
  14. No RM. 9, Kentucky                                                ( 6:22)
  15. Call of the Playground                                            ( 3:30)
  16. Chocolate                                                         ( 3:23)
  17. X-French Tee Shirt                                                ( 4:37)
  18. Dialog                                                            ( 0:35)
  19. About Three Dreams                                                ( 4:52)
  20. Dialog                                                            ( 1:03)
  21. Day Ditty                                                         ( 4:45)

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