ever since college i have been a fan of black lab. when they first came out it was right during the hay day of 90's rock grunge (which is my favorite!), they had a couple hits on the radio which were really cool. when i lived with rex at college he had their 'your body above me' album and we would rock out to it regularly. the problem, though, was that they never came out with a follow up. a few years later rex and i were talking about music and black lab came up. i thought 'dude, we should totally check and see if they have put out anything else since their first one!' so i did a little online searching (i would say i googled it, but this was before google...) and found that they had released a five song disc with a few songs from what they would eventually release. i got rex and i each a copy of it and it was amazing! the short sampler, called 'i feel fine', was amazing and reminded us both why black lab rocks so much! since then they have released two full length albums, which i have also gotten from their website. i even signed up for the email newsletters that the lead singer/songwriter paul puts out sometimes(i'm a major dork, i know). over the summer i got an email from the lead singer and he said that he was going to make a couple hundred double disc albums of some of the band's unreleased stuff. i quickly ordered myself a copy and got one of the first prints of the album! it is really good too. there are over thirty tracks on it, some of them are extra songs from different recording sessions that didn't quite make it on the albums they were recorded for, some are rough demos of songs that he did release, and others were songs featured on movie soundtracks. there are many gems in the bunch, but the best part is being able to hear paul's different takes on some of the songs, hearing them in their rough forms, and listening to some of the more unusual songs that didn't fit the albums they were written for. its a ton of music, and a really cool look into the different branches the band has taken.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
black lab: give us sugar
ever since college i have been a fan of black lab. when they first came out it was right during the hay day of 90's rock grunge (which is my favorite!), they had a couple hits on the radio which were really cool. when i lived with rex at college he had their 'your body above me' album and we would rock out to it regularly. the problem, though, was that they never came out with a follow up. a few years later rex and i were talking about music and black lab came up. i thought 'dude, we should totally check and see if they have put out anything else since their first one!' so i did a little online searching (i would say i googled it, but this was before google...) and found that they had released a five song disc with a few songs from what they would eventually release. i got rex and i each a copy of it and it was amazing! the short sampler, called 'i feel fine', was amazing and reminded us both why black lab rocks so much! since then they have released two full length albums, which i have also gotten from their website. i even signed up for the email newsletters that the lead singer/songwriter paul puts out sometimes(i'm a major dork, i know). over the summer i got an email from the lead singer and he said that he was going to make a couple hundred double disc albums of some of the band's unreleased stuff. i quickly ordered myself a copy and got one of the first prints of the album! it is really good too. there are over thirty tracks on it, some of them are extra songs from different recording sessions that didn't quite make it on the albums they were recorded for, some are rough demos of songs that he did release, and others were songs featured on movie soundtracks. there are many gems in the bunch, but the best part is being able to hear paul's different takes on some of the songs, hearing them in their rough forms, and listening to some of the more unusual songs that didn't fit the albums they were written for. its a ton of music, and a really cool look into the different branches the band has taken.
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