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ARTISTS
Aden
Air Miami
Andrew Beaujon
AKA JK
Autoclave
The Ballet
Barbara Manning
Bastro
Bells Of
Blast Off Country Style
Bloody Amateur
Bloodthirsty Butchers
Borthwick / hollAnd
Bossanova
Bratmobile
Bridget / Kathi / Doug
Butch Willis
Cath Carroll
Tha Cheeky Bastid
Circus Lupus
Clarence
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Containe
Coral
Cotton Candy
Courtney Love
Crispy Ambulance
Currituck Co.
Draw the Kitten
DUSTdevils
DVS
Eggs
Fang Wizard / Party Milk
The Feminine Complex
Flin Flon
Flowers of Discipline
Flying Saucer
The Fontaine Toups / TFT
Fred & Ginger
Gamma Rays
Gastr del Sol
The Gollipopps
Grenadine
Helter Skillet
hollAnd
horse ing TWO=HIT
Hot Pursuit
In Camera
In Interview
Jeff Zitofsky
John Lindaman
Jonny Cohen / Love Machine
Juliet Swango
Jungle George & The Plague
Justin Chearno
K-Stars
Kevin Hewick
The Krokodiloes
The Last Wave
Latin Hustle
The Long Goodbye
Los Marauders
Loudest Boom Bah Yea
Lu
Luna
Mark Robinson
Maybe It's Reno
Mirah & Ginger
MMM's Live Archive
Naomi Wolff
The Naysayer
Nethers
New Carrollton
No Trend
Olympic Death Squad
The Pacific Ocean
Panax
Party Milk / Fang Wizard
Phil Krauth
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Pocket Rockets
The Positions
The Project
Que Verde
Rhonda Harris
Rive Gauche
Robert Schipul/Ascension
Robert Zitofsky
Romania
The Rondelles
The Ropers
Scaley Andrew
The Screamer
S.C.U.D.
Section 25
Sexual Milkshake
Sharky Favorite
Sisterhood of
Convoluted Thinkers
The Soft Rock
Somerville Speakout
Sprites
Stereolab
Stick Insect
The Still
Superconductor
Synthetic Socks
Talk It
Teenage Gang Debs
Tel Aviv
Thirsty Boys
Tracy Shedd
True Love Always
Tsunami
The Tube Bar
Tuscadero
Uncle Wiggly
Unrest
Velocity Girl
Versus
Viva Satellite!
Volumia
Vomit Launch
Wall Drug
Whysall Lane
William & Vivian
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Black Cow
New Fast
I Knew You Would Go
Sadness
Haunt Me
Green
New 3/4
Counting the Days
Part of a Losing Team
(Swords and) Falconry
Collapsing
Why Can't I Make You Happy?
Left Off Here
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LINER NOTES
PLAYERS
Kevin Barker, guitars
Jeff Gramm, guitars, vocals
Josh Klein, drums
Fred Kovey, bass guitar
RECORDED BY
Trevor Kampmann,
in Trish Roy's basement, Oxon Hill, Maryland, USA
1998
COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
The family of Kevin Barker
COVER AND POSTER DESIGN
Mark Robinson, Teen-Beat Graphica
ET CETERA
The booklet includes a list of "Honorary Members":
J. Niimi
Andrew Creighton
Ryan Blaine
Reuben Rios
Ryan Lewis
Mark Robinson
John Dugan
"Thanks to"
Sooyoung Park
Ben Kim
William Shin
Chris Holmes
Mark Robinson
& Teenbeat
All songs © 1999 Jeff Gramm (BMI).
except "Sadness" © 1997 Toulouse (original version from their album The Way the City Stretches on Won't Go Flat Records).
REVIEW
"First thoughts on first listen:
Aden sounds an awful lot like Seam.
Thoughts after a few listens:
Aden sounds an awful lot like a POPPIER version of Seam.
Thoughts after many listens:
Something about this record keeps making me come back to it again and again... maybe it's that they sound familiar, a bit like a poppier version of Seam, but with charms all their own... How come this record, Black Cow, came out in August of '99 and its now January 2000, and no one has told me about it before? Is everyone crazy, or slow, or what? Does the band not know the right people? This record, to frame it in appropriate terms, just rules. If I had started a band up yesterday, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd have been shooting for. Lyrics that are clever without being too cute or faux-arty obtuse; mid-to-up-tempo numbers with dueling clean, sharp guitars that remind me a little of the mellower side of Knapsack; unassuming but not unskilled vocals that somehow, in an osmosis, associative kind of way, remind me of Freedy Johnston; songs catchy enough to get stuck in your head three days since you last listened to the record, but not so sickening that you're rushing to get them back OUT of your head.
About the Seam thing: Confirming my initial reactions, Aden thanks Seam mastermind Sooyoung Park in the liner notes (as it turns out, from the little I was able to dig up on the band, Aden's first album came out on Park's own label). But really, while Seam remains the most logical comparison point, and fans of that band are sure to be impressed by Black Cow, Aden succeeds here on their own merits, and when everything's said and done may end up the better band.
This record would make my revised list of favorites of 1999 (if I were to revise it). With only 2 minor missteps (one of which, "Sadness", is a cover), the album's biggest fault is that at just over a half hour in length, it's too short! Great independent rock records just seem to be pouring out of Washington DC lately, what with the latest Dismemberment Plan offering and Fugazi's steady stream of quality recordings to name just a few, and now Aden's Black Cow adds to the growing chorus. And still I get the feeling, somehow, that this is just a warm-up (a gut feeling, intangible), that their next effort could be the big one. Let's hope more people notice next time."
- Peter Solderitsch, Pop Matters
"This is a fantastic record from another great Teenbeat band. People seem to like Aden's first album too, but this one is far superior. These guitar-driven songs are fairly stripped-down, but they're deceivingly catchy and complex. Sort of like Versus, Bedhead and Pedro the Lion. In interviews, Aden's members always mention that Magnetic Fields are their favorite band, but this album sounds less like MF than aden's first one."
- Emily Bayle, Amazon
RELEASE DATE
January 11, 1999
FORMAT
compact disc
LENGTH
CD:
30 minutes, 18 seconds
CATALOGUE No.
Teen-Beat 266
DETAILS
FIRST PRESSING
January 11, 1999
1,027 pressed.
INSERT:
full-colour 4-page CD-folder with tray card.
JEWEL CASE:
with clear tray.
LABEL:
blue image with orange ring.
SECOND PRESSING
March 19, 1999
508 pressed.
LABEL:
orange image with blue ring.
THIRD PRESSING
July 16, 1999
523 pressed.
LABEL:
beige and burgundy.
FOURTH PRESSING
March 20, 2000
1,000 pressed.
LABEL:
pink and grey.
All pressings:
Printed by Discmakers Print Services, New Jersey.
Discs manufactured by Nimbus, Ruckersville, Virginia.
POSTER
500 printed.
11" x 17".
Printed by ASAP Printing, Arlington, Virginia. Green ink on heavy textured grey paper.
DISCOGRAPHY
SINGLES
Cause of Your Tears
ALBUMS
Aden
Black Cow
Hey 19
Topsiders
COMPILATIONS
1999 Teenbeat Sampler
2000 Teenbeat Sampler
Moshi Moshi: Pop International Style
Little Darla Has A Treat For You Vol.11
2001 Teenbeat Sampler
The Amos House Collection, Vol.I
2002 Teenbeat Sampler
The Amos House Collection, Vol.II
2003 Teenbeat Sampler
Teen-Beat Subscribers' CD, 2005
ALSO
Full Teen-Beat Moon
Teen-Beat's 14th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 15th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 16th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 17th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 18th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 19th Anniversary
Teen-Beat's 20th Anniversary
RELATED
SONGS
Aden
Boggle Champs
Brief Summer Rains
Cause Of Your Tears
The Chase
City Lights
Collapsing
Counting the Days
Country Bar in the City
Dear John
Don't Act Sad
Dull Reactor
(Everything's Fine at the) House of Klein
Green
Gulf Coast League
Haunt Me
Home Repair
I Knew You Would Go
Intertwining Hands
Intro
Left Off Here
Mango Tree
Mantinee Idol
New 3/4
New Fast
Olson Golden
Part of a Losing Team
Pimlico
Plunky
Plunky '99
Pop Song
Racking Up Mistakes
Rapt Attention
Readenator
The Red Door
Reverie
River's Rising
(Rock Me Now) Rockulator
Sadness
Sampler Song
Scooby Doo
S.F. Song
Smiles and Frowns
Snowy Sidewalks
Some Odd Relief
Still Cross My Mind
(Swords and) Falconry
10 Hour Day
Walking in Circles
What Makes You Sad?
When You Left
Why Can't I Make You Happy?
Would You Have Stayed?