Prairie School Freakout/Wayne EP

by Eleventh Dream Day

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popetones so I'm not a 11th d day completist; however, I've listened to a few of their albums. This reissue has awesome extras and is well priced. Plus it's one of the best album titles ever and quite often referred to as their touchstone. I don't know about the latter? But I also think one is selling SY way short of they stop at daydream nation.
This I do know, every 11th d day album I've listened to the songs reveal more each time. This is a rare and exceptional talent imo and worth one's time. Favorite track: Among The Pines.

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	1.	Watching The Candles Burn 04:01
	2.	Sweet Smell 04:37
	3.	Coercion 03:47
	4.	Driving Song 04:09
	5.	Tarantula 05:36
	6.	Among The Pines 06:24
	7.	Through My Mouth 04:57
	8.	Beach Miner 03:42
	9.	Death Of Albert C. Sampson 04:44
	10.	Life On A String 05:04
	11.	Tenth Leaving Train 11:19
	12.	Southern Pacific 05:04
	13.	Go 04:50

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Eleventh Dream Day's first show was in the year of Orwell, and perhaps they should have taken that as some kind of sign. As it was later in their life, their "big break" would serve, at least for a time, to bury them under a burden of corporate obligations and ignorance. Ahh but we are not yet there. This was still the time when Big Black, Naked Raygun, Wax Trax, Touch and Go and those damn buzz cuts were the national faces of Chicago. And then there were the upstarts, like Precious Wax Drippings, Shrimp Boat, Friends of Betty, and of course Eleventh Dream Day (EDD). The band issued their self-titled debut for the new and aptly named Calfornia label, Amoeba in '97 to little fan fare. However, EDD would not remain a sacred secret of Chicago for long. Prairie School Freakout changed all that.
In the newly re-issued liner notes, Byron Coley puts it quite well, explaining that EDD were "rough, ready, and standing on the verge of flight into what seemed like a future of impossible promise...The sounds here are world-beating, and they have an innocent yearning that is absolutely addictive." The record was released in early '88 and soon word spread that the band was a force to be reckoned with live. In no time they were filling Chicago's famed Metro night club. The band began touring nationally and built a kinship with the other guitar bands of that era- X, Husker Du and Yo La Tengo among them. Prairie School Freakout garnered a ton of critical praise and landed them a major label deal with Atlantic. It is still regarded by many as one of the great rock records in the American underground music scene of the late 80's. This kind of career trajectory meant a stint on a major label was inevitable and Atlantic Records came calling. Unfortunately the label's progressive department and junior A+R person were unable to break them on a wider audience, though Dream Day came through with three stellar albums. Again Coley notes that "events and history conspired to prevent EDD from reaching the heights that they might have. It's a real pleasure, both in terms of memory and of contempo-sense-wash -gratification to enjoy this stuff again. Fuck, they were good."

This expanded version of Prairie School Freakout comes completely remastered with liner notes by Byron Coley. Musically the record inludes two bonus tracks which were originally available on the vinyl only Wayne EP.

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Eleventh Dream Day Chicago, Illinois

Since first hitting the road in a battered Econoline van in the 1980s, Eleventh Dream Day continues to build on their history by moving forward musically, while never forgetting what inspired them. On "Since Grazed" Rick Rizzo, Janet Bean (Freakwater), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Brokeback, Pullman), and Mark Greenberg (The Coctails) are joined again by Jim Elkington (Tweedy, Steve Gunn). ... more

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