Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock explained

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock
Type:compilation
Artist:Sebadoh
Cover:Sebadohsmashyourheadonthepunkrock.jpg
Released:October 1, 1992
Recorded:December 1991 – June 1992
Genre:Indie rock, lo-fi
Length:38:22
Label:Sub Pop[1]
Producer:Bob Weston
Prev Title:Sebadoh III
Prev Year:1991
Year:1992
Next Title:Bubble & Scrape
Next Year:1993

Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock is a compilation album by the American indie rock band Sebadoh.[2] [3] It was released in 1992, and marked the band's debut on Sub Pop.[4] [5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

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."

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock. Sub Pop Records.
  2. Book: Earles, Andrew. Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. September 15, 2014. Voyageur Press. 9780760346488. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Sebadoh . Trouser Press . 1 January 2021.
  4. Web site: Sebadoh | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  5. Book: Buckley, Peter. The Rough Guide to Rock. January 1, 2003. Rough Guides. 9781843531050. Google Books.
  6. Web site: Listen to Sebadoh Play "Brand New Love" and More in 2007. April 16, 2020. pastemagazine.com.
  7. Web site: Sebadoh To Bring Grunge-Pop Across Western U.S.. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030042848/http://www.mtv.com/news/719896/sebadoh-to-bring-grunge-pop-across-western-us/. dead. October 30, 2020. MTV News.

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