Pop Has Freed Us

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Pop Has Freed Us
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Compilation album by Papas Fritas
Released August 19, 2003
Genre indie rock, pop music
Length55:57
Label Minty Fresh
Producer Papas Fritas (individual tracks), Anthony Musiala (compilation)
Papas Fritas chronology
Buildings and Grounds
(2000)
Pop Has Freed Us
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pop Has Freed Us, a compilation/career retrospective by Papas Fritas, contains eight songs from their studio albums and nine rarities, and comes with a DVD featuring three music videos ("Afterall," "Hey Hey You Say," and "Way You Walk"). It was released in the summer of 2003 on Minty Fresh after "Way You Walk," a track from the band's third LP, Buildings and Grounds , garnered mainstream exposure in a TV commercial for Dentyne Ice. [2]

Papas Fritas

Papas Fritas is an American indie-rock band that formed in 1992 and released three studio albums before breaking up in 2000. The band's name is Spanish for "French fries" but is also a pun on the phrase "Pop has freed us," which they used as both the name of their music publishing company and their 2003 career retrospective.

<i>Buildings and Grounds</i> 2000 studio album by Papas Fritas

Buildings and Grounds is the third and final studio album by Papas Fritas, released stateside on Minty Fresh in March 2000. In Australia it was distributed by local label Half a Cow, their first release of a non-Aussie album since Bettie Serveert's Palomine five years earlier.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Way You Walk" (Tony Goddess) – 3:48
  2. "Smash This World" (Goddess) – 4:08
  3. "Lame to Be" (Goddess, Shivika Asthana) – 3:24
  4. "Flash Lightning" (Tom Verlaine) – 3:00
  5. "High School, Maybe" (Goddess) – 1:31
  6. "Passion Play" (Goddess) – 3:04
  7. "TV Movies" (Asthana, Goddess) – 3:57
  8. "Holiday" (Goddess) – 2:48
  9. "Hey Hey You Say" (Asthana, Goddess, Keith Gendel) – 3:15
  10. "Let's Go Down to the Town Oasis" (Goddess) – 3:06
  11. "Do the Move" (Goddess) – 3:32
  12. "Say Goodbye" (Asthana, Goddess) – 4:05
  13. "Book of Love" (Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut) – 3:17
  14. "Vertical Lives" (Gendel) – 3:46
  15. "People Tell Me Not to Worry" (Goddess) – 3:39
  16. "Questions" (Goddess) – 3:18
  17. "Love Just Don't Quit" (Goddess) – 2:19

1, 14, 16: from Buildings and Grounds ; 2: from the Friday Night 7" single, 1994; 3: from the Passion Play 7" single, 1995; 4: previously unreleased (c. 1994); 5: bonus track from international releases of Papas Fritas; 6-8: from Papas Fritas ; 9, 12: from Helioself ; 10: from the Vertical Lives CD single (2000, Belgium) and Tape Op: A Compact Disc of Creative Music Recordings (2000, US); 11: from the Far From an Answer CD single (2000, Australia); 13: A-side of Kindercore Records Single of the Month, October 2000 (7"); 15: from The Men From O.R.G.A.N. (2002, Italy; originally titled "Solodisco" and credited to Tony Goddess); 17: from In Our Lifetime, Vol. 3: The Revenge of Boston (2002, US) and POPvolume#3 (2002, France)

<i>Papas Fritas</i> (album) 1995 studio album by Papas Fritas

Papas Fritas is the debut album by Papas Fritas, released in October 1995 on the Minty Fresh record label. Trouser Press editor Ira Robbins wrote that the group "...turns extraordinarily fetching pop concoctions like 'Lame to Be,' 'TV Movies,' 'Possibilities' and 'Smash This World' into disarmingly sophisticated and diverse small-scale charmers with abundant skill and no evidence of effort."

<i>Helioself</i> 1997 studio album by Papas Fritas

Helioself, the second album by Papas Fritas, was released in the spring of 1997. According to the band's website, "Helioself is the name of the mythical Sun-Ra sessions that were so powerful ... they were sealed away in a lost vault by request of the Ra himself because the world was not ready for such harmonic energy." Ivy covered Helioself's third track, "Say Goodbye," on their 2002 album Guestroom.

Personnel

Production notes

"Hey Hey You Say" and "Say Goodbye" coproduced by Bryan Hanna. Liner notes by Tony Goddess and Jay Ruttenberg. Photography by Keith Gendel and Courtney Banfield. Layout by Shannon Showers.

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References

  1. Pop Has Freed Us at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  2. "Dentyne Ice commercial". 2003. Retrieved 2011-07-14.