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Bakesale (CD)

By: Sebadoh (Artist)

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Sebadoh Artist Snapshot:

After leaving Dinosaur Jr. in 1989, guitarist/singer Lou Barlow pursued a more nuanced artistic direction in Sebadoh. Though the band's songwriting quality is variable, Barlow always puts his soul on the line with sometimes disturbing honesty. Sebadoh's early lo-fi releases were considered minor masterpieces of the indie-rock scene; however by the early 21st century the band's output had become more sophisticated. Barlow's side project, Folk Implosion, semi-shockingly made the American top 40 with "Natural One" from the KIDS soundtrack.

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DISC 1 for Bakesale (CD) Album By Sebadoh (Artist)
1   License To Confuse
2   Careful
3   Magnet's Coil
4   Not A Friend
5   Not Too Amused
6   Dreams
7   Skull
8   Got It
9   S. Soup
10   Give Up
11   Rebound
12   Mystery Man
13   Temptation Tide
14   Drama Mine
15   Together Or Alone
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/1/94, p.126) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Sebadoh are Lou Barlow's Velvet Underground, wrapping his confessions in fuzz, hiss and distortion and setting them alongside complementary songs by bandmates....Individual songs offer slightly different perspectives..."
Spin (12/94, p.78) - Ranked #16 in Spin's list of the `20 Best Albums Of '94' - "...Sebadoh's cleanest, most pro recording to date..."
Spin (9/94, p.136) - Highly Recommended - "...a consistent, even professional pop-rock record....Like the young Elvis Costello, he flirts with emotional fascism twisting love-song cliches into clever negations..."
Q (11/94, p.124) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...The tone is conversational, the choice of words precise, yet natural. Sebadoh may have arrived at a potentially very popular midpoint between R.E.M. and Nirvana..."
Alternative Press (10/94, p.95) - "...Sebadoh continue their streak of winners on BAKESALE, an album brimming with edgy, off-kilter pop....It's that self-aware wink that keeps so much self-doubt from becoming grating....There's really not a bad song on here..."
Musician (8/94, p.85) - "...the overall effect is lightly, pleasantly numbing. Which is part of their appeal, one suspects..."
Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #20 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.53) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - "...their most consistent long-player yet with brisk, riffing nuggets....Sebadoh are surely poised for greatness."
NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.23) - Ranked #27 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'
NME (Magazine) (8/27/94, p.39) - "...Set alongside Barlow's fearless lyrics, quality control is no longer an issue for this band..."

Title Note

Sebadoh: Lou Barlow (vocals, guitar, organ); Jason Loewenstein (vocals, guitar, bass); Bob Fay (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Anne Slinn (vocals, organ); Eric Gaffney, Tara Jane O'Neil (drums).

Principally recorded at Fort Apache, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sebadoh was designed as a modern version of the WHITE ALBUM-era Beatles: three singer-songwriters operating under one umbrella, using each other as their respective backing bands. Starting with homemade cassettes and moving on to CDs without bothering to up the recording technology, they became lo-fi heroes, largely on the strength of Lou Barlow's bitter odes to romance.

With BAKESALE, their fourth full-length album, Sebadoh start playing by more traditional rules, and subsequently reach a much bigger audience. Eric Gaffney, the founding member responsible for the noisiest and most outre songs, has departed (although he still shows up as the drummer on four tracks), leaving the band with a more consistent sound. And this time, it's a punchy guitar sound that seems to emanate from a lot more than the usual four tracks.

What hasn't changed is the writing, and this time around Barlow--who contributes the Nirvana-ish "License To Confuse," the tuneful "Magnet's Coil" and "Skull," among several others--is nearly rivaled for excellence by Jason Loewenstein, whose own fine pack of songs is led by the raw love ballad "Got It." Even new drummer Bob Fay gets a nice one in.

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