Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93

Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93
Studio album by Lou Barlow
Released	1994
Studio	home-recorded album
Genre	Folk rock, lo-fi
Label	Smells Like Records [1] - SLR 8
Lou Barlow chronology
Lou B's Wasted Pieces '87 - '93 (1993) Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93 (1994) Another Collection of Home Recordings (1994)

Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93 is an album by Lou Barlow, released as Louis Barlow's Acoustic Sentridoh in 1994 in the United States by Smells Like Records. ^{[2] [3]}

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]

Rolling Stone deemed the album "nervously sweet hearth rock with strong madcap echoes of Syd Barrett." ^[6] A later review in Rolling Stone, by Mark Kemp, wrote that "if you can take the occasional overpowering distortion, the emotional rewards are devastating." ^[5] The New York Times called it "a benchmark of the [home recording] genre." ^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lou Barlow.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stronger"	02:27
2.	"Chokechain"	03:08
3.	"Only Losers"	02:04(*)
4.	"Breakdown Day"	02:18(*)
5.	"Rise Below Slowly"	01:43(*)

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dragdown Memory"	03:20
2.	"Not Nice To Be Nice"	01:46
3.	"Mellow, Cool, And Painfully Aware"	02:15(*)
4.	"Crackers And Coffee"	01:25
5.	"High School"	02:43

(*) originally appeared on Losers , a Sentridoh cassette released by Shrimper.

References

1. "Spins". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. July 8, 1994 – via Google Books.
2. Sentence, Warren. "Person to Person". Chicago Reader. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
3. "TrouserPress.com :: Sebadoh". www.trouserpress.com.
4. "Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings - Lou Barlow | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
5. Kemp, Mark (December 1, 1994). "Recordings". Rolling Stone (696): 126.
6. Fricke, David (June 16, 1994). "On the edge". Rolling Stone (684): 110.
7. Schoemer, Karen (October 24, 1999). "Pop That's Produced Alone at Home Gets Personal". 2. The New York Times. p. 35.