Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (2003) flac

Tracklist:

[4:44] 01. Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift (Album Version)
[3:00] 02. Uncle Tupelo - That Year (Album Version)
[2:49] 03. Uncle Tupelo - Before I Break (Album Version)
[2:20] 04. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (Album Version)
[3:14] 05. Uncle Tupelo - Factory Belt (Album Version)
[4:46] 06. Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle (Album Version)
[2:49] 07. Uncle Tupelo - Outdone (Album Version)
[3:19] 08. Uncle Tupelo - Train (Album Version)
[3:32] 09. Uncle Tupelo - Life Worth Livin' (Album Version)
[2:59] 10. Uncle Tupelo - Flatness (Album Version)
[3:13] 11. Uncle Tupelo - So Called Friend (Album Version)
[2:43] 12. Uncle Tupelo - Screen Door (Album Version)
[2:23] 13. Uncle Tupelo - John Hardy (Album Version)
[3:09] 14. Uncle Tupelo - Left In The Dark (Album Version)
[3:54] 16. Uncle Tupelo - Sin City (B Side)
[4:40] 17. Uncle Tupelo - Whiskey Bottle (Live Acoustic Version)
[2:18] 18. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (1988 Demo)
[4:09] 19. Uncle Tupelo - Blues Die Hard (1987 Demo)


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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
Total length: 01:02:38
Main artist: Uncle Tupelo
Composer: Various Composers
Label: Columbia / Legacy
Genre: Pop/Rock
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo
(P) 1990, 1991, 2002, 2003 Uncle Tupelo Partnership

Uncle Tupelo's landmark opening salvo is the group's most rock-oriented album, steeped more in breakneck speed, punk crunch, and guitar dissonance than any of their subsequent efforts. Indeed, despite the presence of mandolins, fiddles, and banjos -- as well as inclusion of the title track, a faithful cover of the A.P. Carter classic -- the trio's vaunted country leanings are less musical than thematic on No Depression, thanks in large part to singers/songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's acute depictions of rural, blue-collar life. Like the Replacements -- never more obvious an influence than on this LP -- Uncle Tupelo's songs paint grim, unrelenting portraits of aimless Midwestern existence, split between days working on the opening cut's "Factory Belt" and nights spent blurry-eyed and wasted ("Whiskey Bottle," "Before I Break"). Still, for all of the record's doleful cynicism -- virtually every cut nods toward dashed hopes, broken promises, and paralyzing fear -- there's an undeniable electricity afoot as well; by channeling the mournful clarity of country into the crackling fury of punk, No Depression brings new life to both musical camps.
© Jason Ankeny /TiVo


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