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Daydream Nation: Deluxe Edition [Geffen, 2007]Loosed on the world in 1988, Daydream Nation made alt-rock a life-force. Over two vinyl discs containing just fourteen titles, it fused Sonic Youth's displaced guitar tunings with tunes as hummable as the Beatles' or the Ramones'--a standard they've matched ever since, but never again with quite so much anthemic consistency. Today, Daydream Nation's evocation of sonic youths with talent to burn and nowhere to build a fire is clearly rooted in the specifics of a Manhattan bohemia since transformed by Internet money and real estate sharks. Post-irony, its confusion-as-sex seems almost innocent. But its tunings keep it honest and its anthems keep it thrilling. A terrific bonus disc compiles covers that do justice to the band's ambition--Mudhoney's "Touch Me I'm Sick," Neil Young's "Computer World," the Beatles' "Within You Without You"--and unearths live versions of every Daydream Nation song. These are rough, intense, welcome. But the studio versions are definitive, as dense as cluster bombs. "Your life is such a mess/Forget the past, and just say yes"? "You can buy some more and more and more and more"? As words, admissions of futility. Atop marshalled guitars, artistic war cries. [Rolling Stone: 5]
Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 [Matador, 2019]Having enjoyed this free concert at a well-shaded distance, I'd best attest that my rave can't be nostalgia because this is more intense than what I remember. Played back to back with 1989's Daydream Nation, which provides half its 10 titles, or the live Daydream Nation pieced together for the 2007 "Deluxe Edition," it holds its own--the guitars sharper, more abrasive, higher in pitch. No doubt newish bassist Mark Ibold enhances this effect by relieving Thurston and Lee of the need to augment his low end as they sometimes did with Kim on bass--which in turn may well free her to dominate vocally even more than she did before. Knowing the bitter breakup that already lies in wait for this great band, it's fitting that the cover photo depicts Kim singing alone and up front. This was her record. A
3. Crowded House, Deluxe Editions (Universal): Digitally remastered & expanded two-disc versions of all seven releases with tons of b-sides, outtakes & demos. Any morsel of Neil Finn is a true godsend.
What stands out is that the vast majority of nominations stem from the 1980s. Nothing too surprising in itself, as most of the B-sides (55%) stem from that decade, but when compared to the number of nominations that decade ranks up to no less than 76%. Even more, the top 15 is a 100% 1980s affair.
Of the bands that emerged from the early New York punk rock scene, the Dictators were on the scene before nearly everyone else (their first album preceded the Ramones' debut by a year), and while they dug the fast-loud stuff, their sound was informed by hard rock, '60s garage punk, and the glories of American trash culture as much as anything that was happening at CBGB. Being ahead of the game had one unfortunate consequence for the Dictators -- while they had a valuable ally in Blue Öyster Cult producer Sandy Pearlman, trusting a guy with a taste for smart heavy metal to get this band's intelligently dumbed-down sound on plastic may not have been the best strategy, and though the band made a pair of great albums in the '70s (The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! and Bloodbrothers), it wasn't until 2001's reunion set D.F.F.D. that the Dictators finally hit the right balance of simplicity and force in the studio. The sad irony is that the Dictators had the formula worked out all along if someone had simply trusted them to do it themselves, judging from the evidence presented on Every Day Is Saturday, a collection of rarities and unreleased tracks from the group's archives. The highlights of this disc are a five-song demo recorded prior to the sessions for The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! and eight more demos recorded at the band's rehearsal space featuring all the original tunes from Bloodbrothers, and in both cases the rough tapes beat the official versions for energy, attitude, and sheer rockability (and if the fidelity isn't always as great, fans should be more than willing to make that tradeoff). The Go Girl Crazy! demos also include two songs that didn't make it onto the album, "Backseat Boogie" and "Fireman's Friend," and they shake out hard and wild. Every Day Is Saturday also offers up an early and clearly superior recording of "Sleeping with the TV On," two takes of Andy Shernoff's ode to Peter Pan Syndrome "16 Forever," the fine B-side "Loyola," a pair of outtakes from D.F.F.D., and a handful of radio spots (including one in which New York's proudest sons play a barbecue festival in Kentucky!). In lieu of the "greatest-hits" album the Dictators' deserve, Every Day Is Saturday offers an admirable summary of their career to date, complete with liner notes from Scott Kempner and Handsome Dick Manitoba, and serves up their music like a good steak -- hot, rare, just a little bloody, and without a bunch of garnish getting in the way. It's a real treat for fans, and not a bad introduction for the uninitiated (and if you fall into the latter category, what are you waiting for?).
The deal also brought rights for OUTSIDE, EARTHLING, and 'hours...', and in 2004, they were issued by Sony International as two-CD sets, each containing a bonus disc of more than a dozen mixes, remixes, edits, special versions, alternate takes, outtakes, rarities and so on. In 2007, they were followed-up with two-CD configurations of HEATHEN and REALITY, again for the international market, with bonus discs of impossible-to-find and in many cases previously unreleased material. 2b1af7f3a8