Big Red Letter Day

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Album: Big Red Letter Day
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Sodajerk	More Info...	0:04
2)	I'm Allowed	More Info...	0:04
3)	Tree House	More Info...	0:04
4)	Would Not Be Denied	More Info...	0:03
5)	Latest Monkey	More Info...	0:02
6)	My Responsibility	More Info...	0:03
7)	Dry Land	More Info...	0:03
8)	Torch Singer	More Info...	0:03
9)	Late at Night	More Info...	0:04
10)	Suppose	More Info...	0:03
11)	Anything That Way	More Info...	0:05

Performer 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.
Composer: Tom (Buffalo) Colburn.
Personnel: Bill Janovitz (vocals, guitar, piano); Colbourn, Tom (Buffalo) Colburn (vocals, guitar); The Water Sisters (vocals, background vocals); Julia Waters, Maxine Willard Waters (vocals); Bruce Robb (organ); Tom Maginnis (drums, percussion); Carl Plaster (drums).
Recording information: Cherokee studios.
Photographers: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock; Allan Penn; Mike Leahy.
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).

Professional Reviews

Spin (11/93, p.135) - 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..."

Alternative Press (5/01, p.104) - Included in AP's "10 Essential Breakup Albums" - "...[Their] most radio-friendly release....recounting the aftermath of a failed relationship..."

NME (Magazine) (9/25/93, p.38) - (8) - Excellent - "...BIG RED LETTER DAY is Buffalo Tom's most consistent album to date...it's a LARRY away from godhood..."

NME (Magazine) (12/25/93, p.67) - 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...."