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Track Listing
1. Man and Wife, The Former
2. Manana
3. Greater Omaha
4. Man and Wife, The Latter
5. Mall of America
6. Happiest Place on Earth, The
7. Survival of the Fittest
8. $$$$
9. Hole in One
| Details | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Desaparecidos: Conor Oberst (vocals, guitar); Landon Hedges (guitar, bass); Denver Dalley (guitar); Ian McElroy (keyboards); Matt Baum (drums).
Industry Reviews
7 out of 10 - ...Conor Oberst's [has assembled] a thunder-riffed, butt-kicking garage punk band to yodel painfully over the top of...
NME (03/23/2002)
9 out of 10 - ...[The band's] full-on emo-in-the-garage assault is more or less what you figured Bright Eyes would sound like if they turned up to 11...
Alternative Press (04/01/2002)
...A brilliant concept album about the cultrual bankruptcy of middle-class, middle-of-the-road, middle America...an homage to classic rock riff-lore...
Mojo (04/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Frenetic guitar rock and a lyrical dissection of America's rampant consumerism....Shambolic yet tuneful...
Q (03/01/2002)
...The sort of howlingly tuneful Midwestern punk that disappeared with Husker Du... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (03/08/2002)
9 out of 10 - ...Desaparecidos articulate the pain of America's stuffed-crust belt....[they turn] emo's sensitivity into a lens thorugh which to view a wider world...
Spin (05/01/2002)
3 out of 5 stars - ...Oberst coats an anthemic thrash...in glistening guitar sludge and rasps indignantly about the degeneration of his hometown...
Rolling Stone (05/09/2002)
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