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Formats and Editions
1. Why Would I Want to Die
2. My Small Love
3. 12-Pak-599
4. Wretched Songs
5. Levitz
6. For the Dishwasher
7. Sikh in a Baja VW Bug
8. Lava Kiss
9. Fentry
10. Gentle Spike Resort
11. Away Birdies With Special Sounds
12. Kim, You Bore Me to Death
13. Pre Merced
14. Taster
15. Egg Hit and Jack Too
More Info:
The rare and critally acclaimed recordings that have healded a movement towards the group vintage electronic textures. The collection includes two previously unreleased tracks, select songs off ther debut EP and an out of print gem.Reviews:
Modesto, California's favorite sons (and Giant Sand mainman Howe Gelb's favorite band) Grandaddy's latest isn't the official follow-up to 2000's The Sophtware Slump, but an odds-and-sods set of early/rare material. While nowhere near as left-field elegant as the V2 album, it still brims with indieish vim 'n' vigor.Included is the bulk of the '95 EP A Pretty Mess by This One Band (the lurching, strummy folk of "Gentle Spike Resort" and the desert-baked fuzzrock of "Pre Merced" illustrate why Gelb is such a fan) nestling alongside such unreleased gems as the dreamy-drone "My Small Love" and the John Lennon-meets-Flaming Lips "12-Pak-599." Also present is the entire Machines Are Not She EP, originally a '98 European mail-order only release, and as twistedly psychedelic as a lo-fi excursion gets-the Elephant 6 collective crash-lands in the Mojave, anyone? Not an introduction to the band, but a superb between-albums stopgap for fans just the same.
