Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock

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Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
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Compilation album by
Sebadoh
ReleasedOctober 1, 1992
RecordedDecember 1991 – June 1992
Genre Indie rock, lo-fi
Length38:22
Label Sub Pop [1]
Producer Bob Weston
Sebadoh chronology
Sebadoh III
(1991)		Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
(1992)		 Bubble & Scrape
(1993)
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 8/10 [8]

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock is a compilation album by the American indie rock band Sebadoh. [9] [10] It was released in 1992, and marked the band's debut on Sub Pop. [11] [12]

Contents

It includes four of the eight songs from their Rocking the Forest EP, and eight of the nine songs from their Sebadoh vs Helmet EP. Both EPs were released in Europe on Domino/20/20 Recordings in early 1992. [13] Eric Gaffney contributed the majority of the album artwork, and the title, which was lifted for a SPIN article on Nirvana in 1994, and was taken for a book title of the same name, by Matt Bissonnette.

"Vampire" was released as the compilation's single. [14]

Critical reception

Rob Sheffield, in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide , called "Brand New Love" one of Barlow's best songs, and an "anthemic losercore ballad." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Crisis" (Gaffney) - 2:52 *
  2. "Brand New Love" (Barlow) - 4:04
  3. "Notsur Dnoura Selcric" (Loewenstein) - 3:04
  4. "Vampire" (Barlow) - 2:43 *
  5. "Good Things" (Barlow) - 1:26
  6. "Cecilia Chime in Melee" (Gaffney) - 4:19
  7. "Everybody's Been Burned" (David Crosby) 3:15
  8. "Junk Bonds" - (Loewenstein) 1:53 *
  9. "New Worship" (Barlow) - 2:21
  10. "Mean Distance" (Gaffney) - 3:12
  11. "Pink Moon" (Nick Drake) - 2:02
  12. "Mind Meld" (Fay) - 7:10 *

An asterisk (*) denotes tracks taken from Rocking the Forest.

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock". Sub Pop Records.
  2. ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock - Sebadoh". AllMusic . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Kot, Greg (1993-01-07). "Sebadoh Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock (Sub Pop)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2018-12-26.
  4. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: sebadoh". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 327.
  6. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 992.
  7. 1 2 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. pp. 723–724.
  8. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 345.
  9. ↑ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN   9780760346488 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Sebadoh". Trouser Press. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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  13. ↑ "Listen to Sebadoh Play "Brand New Love" and More in 2007". pastemagazine.com. April 16, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Sebadoh To Bring Grunge-Pop Across Western U.S." MTV News. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020.
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