Electric Bird Digest

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Electric Bird Digest
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Studio album by
Released1991
Genre rock music
Label Frontier Records
Young Fresh Fellows chronology
This One's For the Ladies
(1989)
Electric Bird Digest
(1991)
It's Low Beat Time
(1992)
Professional ratings
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Electric Bird Digest is the sixth full-length album by rock band Young Fresh Fellows. [2] It was the last Young Fresh Fellows album released by Frontier Records, and was originally issued in 1991. The original LP included a free single with the songs "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", "Skyscraper of Facts" and "The Teen Thing". [3]

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Frontier Records is an independent record label, started in 1980 in Sun Valley, Los Angeles by Lisa Fancher, a former employee of Bomp! Records and writer of the liner notes for the first album by The Runaways.

Track listing

  1. Telephone Tree
  2. Sittin' on a Pitchfork
  3. Looking Around
  4. Hillbilly Drummer Girl
  5. Whirlpool
  6. Once in a While
  7. Teen Thing
  8. Thirsty
  9. Fear Bitterness and Hatred
  10. Hard to Mention
  11. Tomorrow's Gone (And So Are You)
  12. Evening
  13. There's a Love
  14. Swiftly But Gently

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "TrouserPress.com :: Young Fresh Fellows". www.trouserpress.com.
  3. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da". UniversalTrendsetter.org. Retrieved 2012-02-14.