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Uncle Tupelo 1990 no Depression [2003 Remaster] [eac flac]

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Uncle Tupelo - 1990 - No Depression [Reissue - Remaster] [EAC - FLAC]



Ripped with EAC. Encoded with dBpoweramp, FLAC 1.2.1, compression level 8



No cover art is included (which is excellent). If you want the CD booklet, buy the CD.





The beginning of alt country - halleluiah.





Song Title

01. Graveyard Shift - 4:46

02. That Year - 2:59

03. Before I Break - 2:48

04. No Depression - 2:20

05. Factory Belt - 3:13

06. Whiskey Bottle - 4:46

07. Outdone - 2:48

08. Train - 3:19

09. Life Worth Livin' - 3:32

10. Flatness - 2:58

11. So Called Friend - 3:12

12. Screen Door - 2:42

13. John Hardy - 2:22

14. Left In The Dark - 3:09

15. Won't Forget - 2:51

16. Sin City (B Side) - 3:53

17. Whiskey Bottle (Live Acoustic Version) - 4:40

18. No Depression (1988 Demo) - 2:19

19. Blues Die Hard (1987 Demo) - 4:08





Uncle Tupelo's landmark opening salvo is the group's most rock-oriented album, steeped more in breakneck speed, punk crunch, and guitar dissonance than any of their subsequent efforts. Indeed, despite the presence of mandolins, fiddles, and banjos -- as well as inclusion of the title track, a faithful cover of the A.P. Carter classic -- the trio's vaunted country leanings are less musical than thematic on No Depression, thanks in large part to singers/songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's acute depictions of rural, blue-collar life. Like the Replacements -- never more obvious an influence than on this LP -- Uncle Tupelo's songs paint grim, unrelenting portraits of aimless Midwestern existence, split between days working on the opening cut's "Factory Belt" and nights spent blurry-eyed and wasted ("Whiskey Bottle," "Before I Break"). Still, for all of the record's doleful cynicism -- virtually every cut nods toward dashed hopes, broken promises, and paralyzing fear -- there's an undeniable electricity afoot as well; by channeling the mournful clarity of country into the crackling fury of punk, No Depression brings new life to both musical camps.

-- Jason Ankeny



The album that named a movement (and a magazine), No Depression rocks and twangs in just about equal measure, though the rock side wins out most of the time. Even when a song downshifts from full-on punk to banjo- and mandolin-graced interludes, it usually shifts back again, seemingly louder and angrier than before. Beyond the influential sound, though, are some great songs, whether they're raging originals like "Graveyard Shift," an earnest, acoustic cover of the Carter Family's title track, or a decidedly desperate portrait of Leadbelly's "John Hardy." Six bonus cuts flesh out the 2003 expanded and remastered edition, including a cover of Gram Parsons's "Sin City."

--David Cantwell