Galaxie 500 1996 Galaxie 500 [4xCD RM] {RCD 10355}

Galaxie 500 ‎– Galaxie 500
Label: Rykodisc ‎– RCD 10355
Format: CD, Album, Enhanced, Reissue, Remastered + CD, Album, Enhanced, Reissue, Remastered + CD, Album, Enhanced, Reissue, Remastered + CD, Compilation, Enhanced, Box Set, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Indie Rock


Today

1-1 Flowers 4:26
1-2 Pictures 3:23
1-3 Parking Lot 2:52
1-4 Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste     Written-By – Jonathan Richman 6:47
1-5 Temperature's Rising 5:05
1-6 Oblivious 3:18
1-7 It's Getting Late 3:29
1-8 Instrumental 3:01
1-9 Tugboat 3:53


Bonus Track:

1-10 King Of Spain 4:33


On Fire

2-1 Blue Thunder 3:45
2-2 Tell Me 3:50
2-3 Snowstorm 5:10
2-4 Strange 3:16
2-5 When Will You Come Home 5:21
2-6 Decomposing Trees     Tenor Saxophone – Ralph Carney 4:05
2-7 Another Day 3:41
2-8 Leave The Planet 2:40
2-9 Plastic Bird 3:15
2-10 Isn't It A Pity     Organ [Cheap] – Kramer (2)Written-By – George Harrison 5:10


Bonus Tracks:

2-11 Victory Garden     Written-By – Thompson*, Cunningham* 2:48
2-12 Ceremony     Written-By – Summer*, Curtis*, Hook*, Morris* 5:55
2-13 Cold Night 2:36


This Is Our Music

3-1 Fourth Of July 5:35
3-2 Hearing Voices 3:34
3-3 Spook 4:35
3-4 Summertime 5:59
3-5 Way Up High 4:03
3-6 Listen, The Snow Is Falling    Written-By – Yoko Ono 7:47
3-7 Sorry 4:15
3-8 Melt Away 4:35
3-9 King Of Spain, Part Two 5:07


Bonus Track:

3-10 Here She Comes Now     Written-By – Cale*, Reed*, Tucker*, Morrison* 5:57


Uncollected Galaxie 500

4-1 Cheese And Onions     Written-By – Lennon*, Innes*, McCartney* 3:05
4-2 Them 3:42
4-3 Final Day     Written-By – Phillip Moxham* 2:54
4-4 Blue Thunder     Tenor Saxophone – Ralph Carney 3:46
4-5 Maracas Song 3:52
4-6 Crazy 1:54
4-7 Jerome 2:46
4-8 Song In 3 3:25
4-9 Oblivious 3:21
4-10 I Can't Believe It's Me 3:56
4-11 Walking Song 2:50
4-12 The Other Side 4:55
4-13 On The Floor 2:48
4-14.1 Rain     Guitar – Dave RickWritten-By – Lennon, McCartney* 3:58
4-14.2 Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste     Guitar – Dave Rick Written-By – Jonathan Richman 4:53

   Backing Vocals – Damon Krukowski (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10), Kramer (2) (tracks: 2-1 to 2-13, 3-1 to 3-10)
   Bass Guitar – Naomi Yang
   Design [Box Set And Booklet] – Naomi Yang
   Drums, Percussion – Damon Krukowski
   Electric Guitar – Dean Wareham
   Flute [Cheap] – Kramer (2) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)
   Illustration [CD Inserts] – Duncan Bradford
   Illustration [Outer Box] – Johann Elert Bode
   Liner Notes – Byron Coley
   Photography [Outer Box Illustration] – Zinck/Sylvester
   Producer, Engineer – Kramer (2) (tracks: 1-1 to 4-10)
   Recorded By – Perkin Barnes (tracks: 4-11 to 4-13)
   Remastered By – Alan Douches, Kramer (2)
   Synthesizer [Mirage] – Kramer (2) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-10)
   Vocals – Dean Wareham, Naomi Yang
   Written-By – Galaxie 500 (tracks: 1-1 to 1-3, 1-5 to 2-9, 2-13 to 3-5, 3-7 to 3-9, 4-2, 4-4 to 4-13)

Notes: 4 CD box set. CD's are in clear green-tinted jewel box etched with Ryko logo. Includes a 52 page deluxe booklet with photographs, essays and ephemera. Printed in the USA. Manufactured in Canada.
Disc 1: Today
Disc 2: On Fire
Disc 3: This Is Our Music
Disc 4: Uncollected Galaxie 500

All discs included in this box were later reissued on their own with different artwork.

CD1 produced and engineered 1988.
CD2 produced and engineered 1989.
CD3 produced and engineered 1990.
CD4 produced and engineered 1988-1990 except tracks 4-11 through 4-13 recorded st 6/8 Studio, 1987; and track 4-14 recorded live at CBGB's, 1988.
All discs remastered 1996.

Outer box illustration: detail from Johann Elert Bode's Uranographia, 1801. By permission of the Houghton Library.
CD insert illustration: from Duncan Bradford's The Wonders Of The Heavens, 1837.