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Album: Today
# Song Title   Time
1)    Flowers
2)    Pictures
3)    Parking Lot
4)    Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
5)    Temperature's Rising
6)    Oblivious
7)    It's Getting Late
8)    Instrumental
9)    Tugboat
10)    King of Spain - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
 

Album: Today
# Song Title   Time
1)    Flowers
2)    Pictures
3)    Parking Lot
4)    Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
5)    Temperature's Rising
6)    Oblivious
7)    It's Getting Late
8)    Instrumental
9)    Tugboat
10)    King of Spain - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
 
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Performer Notes
  • TODAY is available along with Galaxie 500's two other full-length albums on the 4-CD box set GALAXIE 500 (Rykodisc 10355).
  • Galaxie 500: Michael Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (bass); Damon Krukowski (drums).
  • Recorded at Noise New York, New York, New York in 1988. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley.
  • Personnel: Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar).
  • Liner Note Author: Byron Coley.
  • Recording information: 1988.
  • Photographers: EugŠne Atget; Macioce; Sergio Huidor.
  • Simple, shimmering, and lovely, the Boston band Galaxie 500 made three excellent albums of dreamy guitar-pop during its short tenure in the late-1980s indie underground. TODAY, released in 1988, is the trio's first album and it establishes a musical blueprint from which the three rarely deviated, and with good cause. A steady bassline, spare, propulsive drums, and a simple three-chord progression--all this crests beneath lead singer Dean Wareham's distant lilt, and works magic on tracks like the heavily Velvet Underground-esque "Pictures," the bouncy "Oblivious," and the majestic closer "Tugboat," the band's first single. (The excellent b-side, "King of Spain," is included on the Ryko CD reissue.)
  • It's also important to note the band's brilliantly embellished cover of Jonathan Richman's a capella obscurity "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste," as it established Galaxie 500's talent for playing covers in a way that claimed the songs as their own and, in the process, extracted a previously unknown beauty from the work. The band's other two studio albums, FIRE and THIS IS OUR MUSIC, are both essential, and all of them make for a fine place to start. Of course, the beginning is as fine a place as any.
Professional Reviews
Alternative Press (7/95, p.92) - Rated #60 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...TODAY...has a casual cool that's...inviting....Lethargy has never sounded so alive..."

Pitchfork (Website) - "[The album moves] from the ghostly mid-tempo beauty of opener 'Flowers,' the dreamiest dream-pop song of them all, to the deeply affecting absurdity of 'Tugboat'..."
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