No Pocky For Kitty (CD)

Perhaps the quintessential US indie band of the 1990s, Superchunk picked up where '80s acts like Husker Du and the Replacements left off, at the intersection of pop and punk, adding a '90s twist and defining a new generation of alternative rock. Led by Mac McCaughan, the band released a string of albums whose punky power and melodic bent provide fodder for a subsequent generation of punk-pop and emo bands. On top of all that, the label Superchunk started, Merge, became one of the most important indie-rock sources of the era, hosting the Arcade Fire, Dinosaur Jr., Lambchop, the Magnetic Fields, and countless others.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Alternative
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• Release Date: August 10, 1999
• Label: Merge Records
• UPC: 036172946525
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106658906
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #63176 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #19705 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #1811 in Alternative (See Top 100 Alternative Bestsellers)

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Superchunk: Mac McCaughan (vocals, guitar); Jim Wilbur (guitar); Laura Ballance (bass); Chuck Garrison (drums).

Recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, Illinois on April 21-23, 1991.

While many music historians would choose Fugazi as the band most emblematic of the D.I.Y. ("do it yourself") independent music scene of the '90s, a perhaps less-obvious but equally valid choice would be Chapel Hill's hometown heroes, Superchunk. However, while Fugazi fretted over the inherent contradictions of integrity and celebrity, Superchunk just plain rocked out. Chugging along like a sped-up REM-meets-the-Ramones, singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, bassist Laura Ballance, guitarist Jim Wilbur, and then-drummer Chuck Garrison were clearly having too much fun on revved-up ditties like "Skip Steps 1 & 3" and "Sprung a Leak" to preach.

Either way, Superchunk packed more manic energy into its records than any ten other bands from Chapel Hill combined. "NO POCKY FOR KITTY" is a cruelly undervalued landmark of an album and the song "Punch Me Harder" is the great lost should-have-been hit of the same decade. Of course Superchunk couldn't maintain this manic velocity throughout its career (and outside of the Ramones, who could?), but "NO POCKY" is a perfect snapshot of the band at its bouncy best.

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