Tremble Under Boom Lights

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Tremble Under Boom Lights
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 23, 1996
Genre Rock
Length21:56
Label Medicine
Producer John Siket
Jonathan Fire*Eater chronology
Jonathan Fire*Eater
(1995)
Tremble Under Boom Lights
(1996)
When the Curtain Calls You
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-neither.png [2]
Pitchfork Media 8.0/10 [3] (reissue)

Tremble Under Boom Lights is an EP by Jonathan Fire*Eater, released in 1996. It was the first release on The Medicine Label after it split from Giant Records the previous fall. The EP was distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance. [4] The five songs on the EP were written while the band's members were living in a farmhouse in Ithaca, New York. [5]

In 2019, the release was reissued along with bonus tracks from their 1995 single self-titled single (also referred to by its first track, "The Public Hanging of a Movie Star") as well as a cover of "The City Never Sleeps" and the previous unreleased track "In the Head".

Track listing

Original release
No.TitleLength
1."The Search for Cherry Red"4:36
2."Make It Precious"4:43
3."Give Me Daughters"4:10
4."The Beautician"3:46
5."Winston Plum: Undertaker"4:41
2019 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
6."The Public Hanging of a Movie Star"3:36
7."The Cakewalk of Crime"3:37
8."When Prince Was a Kid"3:19
9."The City Never Sleeps"3:37
10."In the Head"3:58

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References

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  2. CG: Jonathan Fire*Eater
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