I Think This Is

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I Think This Is
Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is.jpg
Studio album by
Young Fresh Fellows
ReleasedJuly 7, 2009 (2009-07-07)
RecordedNovember 20–24, 2008 in Seattle, Washington, United States
Genre Alternative rock
Length32:39
Language English
Label Yep Roc
Producer Robyn Hitchcock
Young Fresh Fellows chronology
Because We Hate You
(2001)		I Think This Is
(2009)		Tiempo de Lujo
(2012)
I Don't Think This Is
Young Fresh Fellows - I Don't Think This Is.jpg
The European edition of the album released by Munster, with a revised title and track listing and a booklet with 24 sketches made by Tad Hutchinson

I Think This Is is a studio album by Young Fresh Fellows, released on Yep Roc Records in 2009. It was released the same day as Scott McCaughey's other project The Minus 5's Killingsworth . The album was recorded at the behest of former Soft Boys member and friend Robyn Hitchcock, who offered to produce it. [1] McCaughey had previously approached Hitchcock to produce an album 20 years prior, but the two couldn't arrange for an in-studio collaboration until they had toured together and several of the Fellows worked on his Jewels for Sophia . [2]

Yep Roc Records US record label

Yep Roc Records is an American independent record label based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and owned by Redeye Distribution. Since 1997, the label has released albums from North Carolina and international artists, including Aoife O'Donovan, Chatham County Line, Dave Alvin, Chuck Prophet, Gang of Four, Los Straitjackets, Nick Lowe, Paul Weller, Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams, The Apples in Stereo, The Reverend Horton Heat, Mandolin Orange, and Tift Merritt.

Scott McCaughey American musician

Scott Lewis McCaughey is an American singer and songwriter and the leader of the Seattle and Portland-based bands The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5. He was also an auxiliary member of the American rock band R.E.M. from 1994 until the band's break-up in 2011, contributing to the studio albums New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, Around the Sun, Accelerate and Collapse into Now.

The Minus 5 American band

The Minus 5 is an American pop rock band, headed by musician Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows, often in partnership with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.

Contents

Reception

Mark Deming of Allmusic gave the album 3.5 out of five stars, calling it, "unusually focused and coherent-sounding" even as it transcends narrow genre definitions. [3] PopMatters' Ron Hart awarded the album a 9 out of 10, agreeing that it is the most cohesive release from The Young Fresh Fellows and declared it their best album. [4]

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.

Track listing

  1. "The Guilty Ones" (Scott McCaughey) – 2:19
  2. "Lamp Industries" (Kurt Bloch) – 2:02
  3. "Suck Machine Crater" (McCaughey) – 2:55
  4. "Let the Good Times Crawl" (Peter Buck, McCaughey) – 2:32
  5. "Never Turning Back Again" (McCaughey) – 2:21
  6. "New Day I Hate" (Bloch) – 2:01
  7. "Go Blue Angels Go" (McCaughey) – 1:36
  8. "Used to Think All Things Would Happen" (Chris Ballew, Tad Hutchinson) – 3:05
  9. "YOUR Mexican Restaurant" (McCaughey) – 2:23
  10. "Shake Your Magazines" (Ballew, Hutchinson) – 3:00
  11. "After Suicide" (McCaughey) – 1:48
  12. "If You Believe in Cleveland" (McCaughey) – 3:55
  13. "Ballad of the Bootleg" (McCaughey) – 2:42
I Don't Think This Is track listing
  1. "Suck Machine Crater" (McCaughey) – 2:55
  2. "Let the Good Times Crawl" (Buck, McCaughey) – 2:32
  3. "Never Turning Back Again" (McCaughey) – 2:21
  4. "New Day I Hate" (Bloch) – 2:01
  5. "Go Blue Angels Go" (McCaughey) – 1:36
  6. "Gotta Get Away" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 1:42
  7. "The Guilty Ones" (McCaughey) – 2:19
  8. "The Final Tractor" (McCaughey) – 1:57
  9. "After Suicide" (McCaughey) – 1:48
  10. "Lay You in the Ground" (McCaughey) – 1:52
  11. "If You Believe in Cleveland" (McCaughey) – 3:55
  12. "Lamp Industries" (Kurt Bloch) – 2:02
  13. "Shake Your Magazines" (Ballew, Hutchison) – 3:00

Personnel

The Young Fresh Fellows
Chris Ballew American musician

Christopher Ballew is an American musician best known as the former lead singer and 'basitarist' of the alternative rock group The Presidents of the United States of America. He also performs as a children's artist under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.

Musical composition aesthetic ordering and disposing of musical information

Musical composition, music composition, or simply composition, can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece, or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called composers. Composers of primarily songs are usually called songwriters; with songs, the person who writes lyrics for a song is the lyricist. In many cultures, including Western classical music, the act of composing typically includes the creation of music notation, such as a sheet music "score," which is then performed by the composer or by other instrumental musicians or singers. In popular music and traditional music, songwriting may involve the creation of a basic outline of the song, called the lead sheet, which sets out the melody, lyrics and chord progression. In classical music, orchestration is typically done by the composer, but in musical theatre and in pop music, songwriters may hire an arranger to do the orchestration. In some cases, a pop or traditional songwriter may not use written notation at all, and instead compose the song in their mind and then play, sing and/or record it from memory. In jazz and popular music, notable sound recordings by influential performers are given the weight that written or printed scores play in classical music.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music.

Additional personnel
Peter Buck guitarist for R.E.M., songwriter, record producer

Peter Lawrence Buck is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.

Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Robyn Hitchcock English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar.

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References

  1. ↑ Cohen, Jason (2009-07-13). "Young Fresh Fellows Return at Robyn Hitchcock's Urging". Spinner.com . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  2. ↑ Hickey, Matt (2009-07-06). "Q&A With Scott McCaughey". Magnet . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  3. ↑ Deming, Mark (2009). "I Think This Is > Overview". Allmusic . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  4. ↑ Hart, Ron (2009-07-23). "The Minus 5 / Young Fresh Fellows: Killingsworth / I Think This Is < PopMatters". PopMatters . Retrieved 2011-10-19.
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