Grandaddy "Just Like the Fambly Cat" LP Mercury Rev Modest Mouse Elliott Smith
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Grandaddy "Just Like the Fambly Cat" 2xLP Sheridan Square/V2 (US)
Vinyl is NM-, Jacket is NM!
Out of Print!!
Track Listing:
A1 What Happened... Vocals – Lauren Goldfarb, Lucea Legnini 2:19 A2 Jeez Louise 3:41 A3 Summer... It's Gone 5:30 A4 Oxygen/Aux Send 1:08 A5 Rear View Mirror 6:08 B1 The Animal World 4:53 B2 Skateboarding Saves Me Twice 3:22 B3 Where I'm Anymore 6:07 B4 50% 1:02 C1 Guide Down Denied 6:32 C2 Elevate Myself 3:41 C3 Campershell Dreams 3:44 D1 Disconnecty 3:34 D2 This Is How It Always Starts 6:46 D3 Shangri-La (Outro) 2:16Grandaddy is an American indie rock band from Modesto, California, formed in 1992. The band consists of Jason Lytle (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Kevin Garcia (bass guitar), Aaron Burtch (drums), Jim Fairchild (guitar) and Tim Dryden (keyboards).
After several self-released records and cassettes the band signed to Will Records in the US and later the V2 subsidiary Big Cat Records in the UK, going on to sign an exclusive deal with V2. The bulk of the band's recorded output was the work of Lytle, who worked primarily in home studios. The band released four studio albums before splitting in 2006, with band members going on to solo careers and other projects. Grandaddy reformed in 2012 and have since made a number of live appearances.
V2 record deal
Unhappy with the efforts of Will Records, the band signed a worldwide deal with Richard Branson's V2 Records in 1999, their first release on the label being the Signal to Snow Ratio EP in September that year. In May 2000, they released their second album, The Sophtware Slump, to critical acclaim, with popular British music magazine NME later placing it number 34 in their "Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade" list, and The Independent describing it as "easily the equal of OK Computer". The album reached number 36 on the UK Albums Chart, and the band's fanbase increased, including celebrities such as David Bowie, Kate Moss, and Liv Tyler. By early 2001 the album had sold 80,000 copies worldwide. "The Crystal Lake", although not a hit when released as the first single from the album, gave the band their first UK top 40 single when reissued in 2001.
Around the time that The Sophtware Slump was released, Grandaddy was invited to open for Elliott Smith on his tour for Figure 8. On some nights, Smith would join Grandaddy onstage and sing lead vocals on portions of "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot". The band later opened for Coldplay on their US tour in Summer 2001. Also in 2001, the band's version of The Beatles' "Revolution" was used in the film I Am Sam.
Their third album, Sumday, recorded in Lytle's home studio, was released in 2003. The band promoted it with a pre-release US tour with Pete Yorn followed by a three week European tour (including a performance at the Glastonbury Festival) and a larger US tour. Lytle described the album as "Grandaddy influenced by Grandaddy...the ultimate Grandaddy record".
Starting in late 2005, the Grandaddy song "Nature Anthem" could be heard in a Honda Civic Hybrid television commercial, and was later used in a Coca Cola commercial.
In 2004 and 2005 Lytle recorded what would be the last Grandaddy album, Just Like the Fambly Cat, although by the time of its release the band had decided to split up. The title is a reference to Lytle's desire to leave Modesto, a town which he complained "sucks out people's souls". The album was largely the work of Lytle, who created the album over a year and ahalf in his home studio in Modesto, fuelled by alcohol, painkillers, and recreational drugs, with only Burtch from the remainder of the band playing on it. It was preceded by the band's final release while together, the Excerpts From the Diary of Todd Zilla EP.
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