| El Moodio | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1993 | |||
| Studio | Sorcerer Sound | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Jim Rondinelli | |||
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El Moodio is an album by the American band Eleventh Dream Day, released in 1993. [1] [2] The band supported the album with a North American tour. [3] It was Eleventh Dream Day's final album for Atlantic Records. [4]
Recorded in New York, the album was produced by Jim Rondinelli. [5] Nine of its 10 songs were written by Janet Beveridge Bean and Rick Rizzo. [6] Matthew O'Bannon joined as the second guitar player. [7] The band started the album with Brad Wood, in Chicago, and also recorded songs that were released on 2013's New Moodio. [8] Velvet Crush's Ric Menck played drums on "That's the Point". [9]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| Calgary Herald | B+ [11] |
| Robert Christgau |  [12] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [13] |
| Los Angeles Times |  [14] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [15] |
| Rolling Stone | [16] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | [17] |
Rolling Stone concluded that "the lion's share of the material reveals a knack for emotionally charged scenes, underscored by Bean's brusque drums," writing that "the root of great rock & roll isn't originality but spirit—and Eleventh Dream Day has passion to burn." [16] The Washington Post determined that the album "still doesn't unite the band's influences—the Velvet Underground, Neil Young and the Dream Syndicate, to name just a few—into a distinctive whole." [18] Greil Marcus, in Artforum , wrote that "on 'Rubber Band', singer/guitarist Rick Rizzo asks the musical question, How far can a phrase be stretched before every trace of the meaning it began with is gone?, and doesn't answer it." [19]
USA Today praised "the shimmery harmonies, grabby melodies and guitar-rock intensity." [20] The Calgary Herald called the album "outsider rock that doesn't try to overthrow the system, that just wants to hang on and hope—and rock with a controlled rage." [11] The Gazette opined that "when Rizzo and Matthew O'Bannon's guitars work alchemy in the ballads, the band approaches grandeur." [21] The Virginian-Pilot deemed El Moodio "an album of moody, nervous guitars and edgy singing." [22]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Makin' Like a Rug" | |
| 2. | "Figure It Out" | |
| 3. | "After This Time Is Gone" | |
| 4. | "Murder" | |
| 5. | "Honeyslide" | |
| 6. | "That's the Point" | |
| 7. | "Motherland" | |
| 8. | "The Raft" | |
| 9. | "Bend Bridge" | |
| 10. | "Rubberband" |
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