Galaxie 500 - Classic or dud?

This is to commemorate my own private 4th o' July bed-in, to which I forgot to invite anyone (but which my gf brazenly crashed). I didn't pull the shades, though, & am quite enjoying all the flashes & whizz-bangs encircling my apartment. We partied so hard last night that we didn't even have the stamina for public fireworks!

dud, even though i like dozens of bands similar to them.

maybe I should change my style...but I feel alright, when you smile...

such a classic alienated loner song; though the band specialized in those, didn't they?

Love G500. I'm going through a serious reacquaintance with their awesomeness after renting the live dvd's. Classic band thru and thru.

yet again i forgot to have my damn bed-in

Incidentally listening to This Is Our Music as I just came upon this thread, still one of the classicest albums by one of the classicest bands ever.

Galaxie 500 reissues
http://dummymag.blogspot.com/2009/12/galaxie-500-rerelease-albums.html
Rerelease fever, and late 80s fever, continues with the announcement that Domino will be sending out double CD editions of ‘Today’, ‘This Is Our Music’ and ’On Fire’ by Boston dream pop band Galaxie 500 (1987-1991).

Nice.

wtf? so pointless. is the box set out of print or something?

Well at least maybe I can get a cheap Ryko copy of Today since we seem to be missing that one.

heavy vinyl!

box set is definitely out of print. but the individual discs aren't. anyway, doesn't look like there's anything I don't already have here ...

this seems like entirely gratuitous repackaging of already available discs. so things don't change then...

instead, let's all listen to this: http://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2009/12/11/mp3-galaxie-500-in-san-francisco-1991-complete-show

ugh i wish domino would keep their grubby paws off music i like

heavy vinyl!

― being being kiss-ass fake nice (gbx), Monday, December 14, 2009 5:25 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

the vinyl reissues of the proper albums from earlier this year on D&N's label 20-20-20 are AWESOME in sound and appearance. i bet this bonus stuff is gonna junk up the packaging and covers, etc. they oughta just put out a 2LP or 3LP box comp of the peel sessions and rutles' song. id definitely buy that, but there's no chance ill buy the second series of reissues in six months just for some versions-with-sax. okay, actually i DO love that sex version of "blue thunder." btw this is exactly why i have so few fall LP's -- those dudes just cannot get it together to wait at least a year between subsequent reissues.

that sex version of "blue thunder."

loool

freudian slip it in

love this guy over here

you might say im ON FIRE

Damon and Naomi are the nicest 'famous' musicians i've ever met. Somewhere on this interweb i've relayed the story of seeing them in a tiny bar in NOLA, telling them where I worked, then having them show up at my work the next day to say hello and thank me for supporting them. It is still one of my favorite music related memories.

yeah, they are super nice. when i interviewed them a few years ago over the phone, by the end, i pretty much wanted to say "CAN WE HANG OUT SOMETIME" ...

Classic, classic, classic. Galaxie 500 seem to improve with every passing year.

I picked up the vinyl reissue of 'On Fire' the other day despite having it on CD and sorta promising myself I'd try and refrain from buying stuff twice (I have a terrible habit of this). Listened to it last night and my word, it sounded even better! Does anyone know if the remastering on the new issues is different from the Ryko reissues? I had a quick look through the Ryko version of 'On Fire' and I don't see any remastering credits. The new vinyl issue has a separate credit for the vinyl mastering which fills me with some hope that they are taken from an analogue source. Are they the same as the vinyl reissues on the 20-20-20 label I've heard of?

The sound though . . . The drums particularly. I've never noticed the sleigh bells at the start of 'Decomposing Trees' as much but on the vinyl they're right up there high in the mix. It all sounds wonderful. So wonderful that I had to dash out to the record store today and pick up 'Today' and 'This is Our Music'

in general you do not vinyl is not mastered using existing digital masters. a separate vinyl master is made from the source material (which in this case could be either digital or analog, who knows what Kramer was doing)

should say "in general vinyl is not mastered"

Yeah, I understand that but I've heard numerous disturbing stories recently of reissues or even just contemporary vinyl issues of albums being taken from purely digital sources.

has anyone seen Dean & Britta doing a set of Galaxie 500 covers recently? read about it happening ... somewhere. G-500 need to bury the hatchet and start making some coachella $$$!

eh not likely for at least a few more years I would say

what do D&N need him for now - Kurihara's a better guitarist than Dean anyway

ha, maybe. they wouldn't have to fly dean in from Japan though ...

http://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2010/02/08/video-dean-britta-playing-galaxie-500/

Nice - I used to think he stopped singing in that higher register b/c he couldn't, but he sounds great here.

yeah, those sound pretty nice!

maybe those shows will send him back in that G-500 direction ... wasn't crazy about the last Dean & Britta record. Some decent stuff, but a fair amount of boring stuff too.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/03/24/diversions-dean-wareham10-albums-that-inspired-galaxie-500/

Usually on lists like that there's at least one (if not more) record that's surprising, but mix all ten of dean's picks together and you basically get Galaxie 500. He knows what his influences were.

dunno, Combat Rock is sort of surprising. You'd think that Beat Happening or Television would be in there as well.

Agree with the Television point. Didn't think of 13th Floor Elevators, but now he's mentioned it I totally hear them all over Galaxie 500.

I wish someone would have schooled me on this band earlier in my life. I don't remember which song it was now, but way back in like '93 or '94 someone put a song of theirs on a mixtape and I thought "this singer sucks", always avoiding them from that day on. Stupid stupid stupid.

tbf he is kinda a shitty singer

Yeah he is, but I wish I hadn't written off everything else about them at the time. His shitty singing is pretty much besides the point.

also hard to imagine this band with anyone else's shitty singing

Well, Naomi sang on a song or two. Actually one of my favorite tracks from On Fire features her...

galaxie 500 = so good. was listening to that "portable g-500" comp last night. made me feel 16 again! in a good way.

did that mike mcgonigal oral history book ever come out?

So Damon played slow on purpose, right?

G500 is Perfect bar music

Heard one of their tunes last week for the first time in a long while and it really hit the spot.

I'll drive sooooo far awayyyyhh