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Supreme Dicks: Jon Shere, Dan Oxenberg (vocals, guitar); Steven Shavel (vocals, slide guitar); Mark Hanson (vocals, drums).
Additional personnel: Jim Spring, S.D., Rich Hinklin (guitars); Benjie Bernhardt (violin); Lou Barlow (bass); Mark Merrigan (drums); Pete Morgan (background vocals).
Engineers include: Mark Merrigan, Paul Roche, Rich Hinklin, Paul MacNamara.
The Unexamined Life compares oddly with most of the Dicks' later work. The record is probably more focused than those which followed, but focused on its own eeriness -- the quasi-psychedelic folk vibe has more in common with the Japanese collective Ghost than with the sprawlingly odd Americana of albums like The Emotional Plague. This gives The Unexamined Life a haunting edge that simply isn't captured by the Lou Barlow references that seem appropriate -- there's an antique and wholly psychedelic quality behind the record's drawling folk, and it's that element that lends the album most of its interest. ~ Nitsuh Abebe
Additional personnel: Jim Spring, S.D., Rich Hinklin (guitars); Benjie Bernhardt (violin); Lou Barlow (bass); Mark Merrigan (drums); Pete Morgan (background vocals).
Engineers include: Mark Merrigan, Paul Roche, Rich Hinklin, Paul MacNamara.
The Unexamined Life compares oddly with most of the Dicks' later work. The record is probably more focused than those which followed, but focused on its own eeriness -- the quasi-psychedelic folk vibe has more in common with the Japanese collective Ghost than with the sprawlingly odd Americana of albums like The Emotional Plague. This gives The Unexamined Life a haunting edge that simply isn't captured by the Lou Barlow references that seem appropriate -- there's an antique and wholly psychedelic quality behind the record's drawling folk, and it's that element that lends the album most of its interest. ~ Nitsuh Abebe
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - In A Sweet Song The Arabian Song The Sun's Bells
2 - Jack Smith
3 - That I May Never Forget And Stay Garden Of Your Past Jack-O-Lantern
4 - River Song
5 - Fallout Song
6 - Azure Dome
7 - Forest Song (or Especially When The October Wind With Frosty Fingers, Punishes My Hair)
8 - Hyacinth Girls
9 - Ten Past Eleven
10 - Woody Would've Wanted It That Way
11 - Strange Song
Disc 2:
1 - Synaesthesia
2 - CúChulain (Blackbirds Loom)
3 - Columnated Ruins/Seeing Distant Chimneys
4 - Along a Bearded Glade
5 - Swell Song
6 - Showered
7 - Donkey's Burial in a Tower on a Mirage
8 - Adoration de l'Agneau Mystique
9 - Porridge for the Calydonian Boar
10 - Siberian Penal Colony (Ode to Joel Stanley)
11 - Green Wings Fly Adventure (Showered Reprise)
1 - In A Sweet Song The Arabian Song The Sun's Bells
2 - Jack Smith
3 - That I May Never Forget And Stay Garden Of Your Past Jack-O-Lantern
4 - River Song
5 - Fallout Song
6 - Azure Dome
7 - Forest Song (or Especially When The October Wind With Frosty Fingers, Punishes My Hair)
8 - Hyacinth Girls
9 - Ten Past Eleven
10 - Woody Would've Wanted It That Way
11 - Strange Song
Disc 2:
1 - Synaesthesia
2 - CúChulain (Blackbirds Loom)
3 - Columnated Ruins/Seeing Distant Chimneys
4 - Along a Bearded Glade
5 - Swell Song
6 - Showered
7 - Donkey's Burial in a Tower on a Mirage
8 - Adoration de l'Agneau Mystique
9 - Porridge for the Calydonian Boar
10 - Siberian Penal Colony (Ode to Joel Stanley)
11 - Green Wings Fly Adventure (Showered Reprise)