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Track Listing
1. Sodajerk
2. I'm Allowed
3. Tree House
4. Would Not Be Denied
5. Latest Monkey
6. My Responsibility
7. Dry Land
8. Torch Singer
9. Late at Night
10. Suppose
11. Anything That Way
| Details | | Producer: | Buffalo Tom, Robb Brothers | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Buffalo Tom: Bill Janovitz (vocals, guitar, piano); Chris Colbourn (vocals, guitar, bass); Tom Maginnis (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Maxine Water, Julia Water (vocals): Bruce Robb (Hammond B-3 organ).
Recorded in 1993.
It's not the standard musical progression: band goes through a flurry of breakups, band produces their most accessible, most poppy record. However, that's what Boston indie outfit Buffalo Tom did with BIG RED LETTER DAY. The 1993 album opens with the effervescent guitar rocker "Sodajerk," a mix of abstractly melancholy lyrics and jangly hooks which would prove the band's biggest hit. The trio builds on the tremendous ballad formula it discovered on their prior album's "Taillights Fade" with a pair of absolute classics, the brooding "I'm Allowed," and the `50s-reviving "Late at Night" (the latter would gain a second life when featured prominently on the cult TV show MY SO-CALLED LIFE).
Industry Reviews
Ranked #32 in New Musical Express' list of `The Top 50 LPs Of 1993' - ...has all the de rigueur pop highs and heart-mangling weepies without once lapsing into formula....
NME (12/25/1993)
(8) - Excellent - ...BIG RED LETTER DAY is Buffalo Tom's most consistent album to date...it's a LARRY away from godhood...
NME (09/25/1993)
Included in AP's 10 Essential Breakup Albums - ...[Their] most radio-friendly release....recounting the aftermath of a failed relationship...
Alternative Press (05/01/2001)
Highly Recommended - ...The best thing about Buffalo Tom is that it revels in the yearning, heartfelt, energetic, `alternative' thing, but somehow manages to avoid churning out that generic, ultra-sincere, nice-guy college rock crap...
Spin (11/01/1993)
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