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Visit the Galaxie 500 Online Store for digital downloads and special packages About Galaxie 500: Galaxie 500 was a trio: Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang, and Dean Wareham. The band was formed in Boston in 1987, and broke up in 1991. While the band was active, it released three albums on Rough Trade Records: Today (1988), On Fire (1989), and This Is Our Music (1990). These three albums have now been reissued on vinyl by 20/20/20, and are available via high-quality download at the official Galaxie 500 online store, fierybreeze.com. Since the band's demise, a number of archival recordings have also been released, including a collection of outakes and rarities, Uncollected Galaxie 500; a live album, Copenhagen; a best-of compilation, The Portable Galaxie 500; a two-DVD set of videos and live footage, Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste; and the band's Peel Sessions recorded for the BBC. All but the Peel Sessions are currrently out of print, but watch this space for news of their reissue.
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Today “An astonishing debut by anybody’s standards... A haze of warm psychedelic-like torpor.” — Melody Maker Tracklist: Flowers, Pictures, Parking Lot, Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste, Temperature's Rising, Oblivious, It's Getting Late, Instrumental, Tugboat Produced and engineered by Kramer at Noise New York 1988 |
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On Fire “A wintry opiate... a hypnotic open loop of gentle drums, a bass that becalms, and a guitar that drifts purposefully from languid to leveling.” — Spin Tracklist: Blue Thunder, Tell Me, Snowstorm, Strange, When Will You Come Home, Decomposing Trees, Another Day, Leave the Planet, Plastic Bird, Isn't It a Pity Produced and engineered by Kramer at Noise New York 1989 |
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This is Our Music “Feedback never sounded so sweet.” — Billboard Tracklist: Fourth of July, Hearing Voices, Spook, Summertime, Way Up High, Listen the Snow Is Falling, Sorry, Melt Away, King of Spain Part Two Produced and engineered by Kramer at Noise New York 1990 |
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Peel Sessions "Peel Sessions is allegedly the final piece of the Galaxie 500 story, the last recorded evidence of any significance that will be released. It's a fittingly strong ending for a band that did almost everything right." — Pitchfork Tracklist: Submission (Sex Pistols), Final Day (Young Marble Giants), When Will You Come Home, Moonshot (Bufy Sainte Marie), Flowers, Blue Thunder, Decomposing Trees, Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste (Jonathan Richman) Recorded for BBC Radio 1’s John Peel Show, 1989 & 1990. |
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