School me on Eric's Trip

After a slew of cassette and vinyl micro-releases SubPop signed them for a few LPs/singles.

They have some good songs, I think they're debut 2x7" on SubPop was pretty classic college indie-rock circa 1993. I have no idea if the other guys are still active but Julie Doiron is still making records (her record with the Wooden Stars is pretty sophisticated art-pop).

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Definitely worth looking into though.

The release I recommended is called Songs About Chris.

the records can probably be found in used and bargin bins, and entirely worth picking up at that price.

It was kinda a good record. Better than the Microphones, that's fer sure.

"Peter" and "Love Tara" are the highlights.

yeah, they do sorta sound like a better version of the microphones now that i think about it.

All I have is Love Tara, and while I enjoy it on the whole, the drummer
has that machine-gun style that you either love or hate. The kind
where on the loud, fast songs, every phrase ends with a ton of
snare drum 16th notes.

I think that's what happened, because I can remember seeing a vinyl version with Sub Pop's logo in the early 1990s at shows, whereas the CD/CS was all that Murder ever had listed.

the gordon st haunting ep is lovely as well, as is the float 45 (i assume both of these are on the long days ride cd?)

For some reason, Julie's vocals on the "Playing hide and seek..." verse of "Float" are removed on Long Days Ride (and no, Gordon Street isn't on the comp; it was limited to non-SP releases, except for live versions). I'd recommend that album as the starting point requested in the thread's lead-off questions, largely because it covers the whole arc of the bands' six year career, from the early lo-fi self-released cassettes, to 7" singles to live tracks. Also, for those that are interested, Rick White has reissued (on CD-R) versions of the first cassette and first two singles: http://www.elevator.ca/gb.htm

I don't really get the SY comparisons, apart from their name. They've always sounded more like Isn't Anything-era MBV playing Neil Young's Decade ("Sugar Mountain" and "Like A Hurricane" are much like the two sides of ET that you'd be exposed to, the quiet and the loud).

I think ET's best song was "Smoke" which appeared on The Road South 7" on Sonic Unyon.

I've heard bits of Julie's upcoming album (not due until end of August), and it's really good. There's a dance number, almost in the vein of Feist, but with more teeth.

Great Albums

STOVE!

how do you feel about it?

i love it. i'm listening to love tara for the first time in ages and had forgotten all about that tune.

love that lp

i love adjusting the balance dial on my stereo while listening to eric's trip. that hard-panned stereo sound! and the drums on love tara... that compression sound on stove...

Purple Blue soundeds really good to me today. Through ears now to me it sounds like doom pop with all of the fuzz.

Yeah underrated. But Love Tara was my favorite album by anybody for a couple years

forever again & purple blue both re-issued on vinyl last week by subpop <3

People always told me that when I got older I would miss all the punk records I sold, but the reality is that I just miss my Eric's Trip LPs. :(

<3

this band feels long overdue for the big deluxe box set treatment

NO BIG BOX SETS :\

keep the numero group the fuck away from my canadian homies

I wouldn't buy a box set but I would buy a compilation of all the early stuff to see if it holds up.

Never forget:
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kiss me on the head, steve

lol forgot that I started this thread

(Still haven’t spent enough time with Eric’s Trip)

Haha Eric's Trip feels too lo-fi and light-hearted compared to the serious, pondering-dude 90s indie rock that Numero focuses its efforts on. Much of which I love, don't get me wrong. But slightly off brand I'd say.