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Shrimp Boat
Something Grand
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Rocks Are Oil
2. Pillar?s Pond
3. Born In A Sour
4. Bumble Bees
5. Collecting Me
6. Only Making Fools
7. Shimmy
8. Mimi
9. Sourwood Mt.
10. Melon Song
11. Some Change
12. I Can?t Wait
13. In A Fever
14. The Way It Is
15. Basin Slip
16. Ollie?s Song
17. 65
Track Listings (17) - Disc #2
1. Hey Buddy, What's Wrong
2. Between Your Knees
3. Watched Pot
4. Krazy Keys
5. London Dew
6. Wonderful
7. Warzone
8. You Are My Flower
9. Sanchez River
10. Charm Lost
11. How Sweet She
12. Anna E
13. Medea Rising
14. She Ra
15. Kickball
16. Fuzzy Tremolo
17. Limerick Dub
Track Listings (17) - Disc #3
1. Honeyside
2. Those Hookers
3. Truck
4. Steam
5. Motorcade
6. Slave Reel
7. Shoes
8. Well, I Love My Baby
9. I Don?t Mind The Bums
10. Weeping Into A Pond
11. Shrimpcore
12. I Love You, Porgy
13. When My Hand Is On The Wheel
14. Drought Of ?43
15. Columbo
16. Mudpin
17. Sultan?s Eyes
Track Listings (17) - Disc #4
1. 44
2. As A Salt Lick Block
3. Beanfield
4. Boots Of Spanish Candy
5. Medullary Pinata
6. Brown-Eyes Western Radio
7. Greek Song
8. Early Settlers
9. Hello Stranger
10. Here Comes Your Ride
11. Snowcloud
12. Western PLains
13. Seen This Mexico
14. Thoes Were The Days
15. /// !!! ///
16. Man Alive (Reprise)
17. Intro To Man Alive

CD Details

All Artists: Shrimp Boat
Title: Something Grand
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Aum Fidelity
Release Date: 6/22/2004
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
UPCs: 642623302828, 642623302828

Synopsis

Album Description

Shrimp Boat was a phenomenal Chicago band that made music from the mid `80s to the mid `90s. Their ability to voluminously manifest new songs from the air around them left listeners awestruck. Three albums were released in their lifetime: great, beautiful documents all, though they aren't even the half of it. Ian Schneller, Sam Prekop, David Kroll, Eric Claridge and Brad Wood were Shrimp Boat. They recorded everything they ever performed, and this set manifests the "mega money shot" culled from over 400 hours of unreleased tapes - 16-tracks made at Idful Music, 4-tracks made on Archer Street, live stage performances and radio broadcasts. Something Grand is a three-disc collection featuring 51 tracks and a 50-page booklet packed with photos, show flyers and two sets of comprehensive liner notes. Plus, the first 2000 copies contain a bonus full-length fourth disc of further exclusive material…whoa! Post-Shrimp Boat hype: Sam Prekop is the principal force behind The Sea And Cake, which formed in the wake of Shrimp Boat's demise. Eric Claridge is also a founding member of The Sea and Cake. Ian Schneller rocked first with Falstaff and has since been incredibly productive with Specimen Products, designing and constructing handcrafted stringed instruments. Brad Wood left SB to produce Liz Phair's epochal Exile In Guyville; he has also worked with Tortoise, The Sea And Cake, Red Red Meat and countless others - further refining/defining a renowned era of "the Chicago sound." David Kroll left the band to focus on his exquisite painting. His work is featured on the cover of (and elsewhere on) Something Grand.

CD Reviews

Joy Knows No Bounderies

PopTodd | United States | 09/08/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Shrimp Boat are simply the most joyous band on the planet. Or at least they were... they broke up back in 1993 or so, after only three proper albums. So, thank God for this collection!

The chronologically sequenced set spans the band's entire career, starting with their early home-recorded sound experiments (when they could barely play their instruments), and tracking their evolution as they explored and blended virtually every style of music on the planet. From Eastern European folk music, to Zappa-esque freakouts, to Carter family-syle Appalacian folk/country, to free jazz skronking, to Soul and R&B... usually blended seamlessly. Hell, they even do a cover of "Those Were the days" (from All in the family), on the Bonus Album!

The live cuts are particularly vibrant, as the sound of dancing and laughing crowds in the background and the obvious fun the band is having on stage really comes through. I missed seeing SB live, despite being from Chicago myself. It makes me long to go back in time and catch just one show.

Sam Prekop's voice is even more slurred here than it is in The Sea and Cake, but there's no denying its source. And he has yet to play with another guitar player as propulsive and explosive as Ian Schneller could be.

The only reason I am detracting a star at all is because the early experiments, while interesting and good to have in my collection, are not all successful.

Any fan will want this set -- it completes the legacy of one of the greatest bands to ever fly under the radar. For the uninitiated, I would recommend starting with either of their final two albums -- Duende or Cavale. (Both are 5-star recordings, IMO.)"