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Staff pick of the week...
This week...Bill picks it!
Artist: Bettie
Serveert
Title: Palomine
Price: $9.75 
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| Leg |
| Palomine |
| Kid's
Alright |
Brain-Tag |
| Tom
Boy |
| Under
The Surface |
| Balentine |
| This
Thing Nowhere |
| Healthy
Sick |
| Sundazed
To the Core |
| Palomine
(Small) |
A
lifelong music fan, I’ve been compiling my year-end
Top Ten list long before I started working at Parasol. In
1993, The Afghan Whigs’ “Gentlemen,” Liz
Phair’s “Exile In Guyville,” and The Grifters “One
Sock Missing” were leading the pack when I asked a
co-worker what her favorite record of the year was.
She immediately answered, “Bettie Serveert’s Palomine.”
It was a band and an album I hadn’t heard before, and
I respected her opinion, so I bought the CD later that week.
Although it technically came out in 1992, it left my Top Ten
list in a state of upheaval; something for which I owe my old
friend a debt of gratitude.
Bettie Serveert have been among my favorite bands since that
time and I’m delighted that we’ve been able to
release 2 of their records on our label Hidden Agenda. The
band just keep getting better in better and - as evidenced
by the new songs the band just sent us - show no signs of running
out of steam.
“Palomine,” the band’s highly regarded debut,
had been out of print domestically until recently. Matador
Records recently repressed copies of this essential release,
rectifying the problem - at a low price of $9.75! It’s
one of the best albums of the 90s and does an excellent job
of capturing the wide-eyed enthusiasm of that era in independent
rock. Buy it.
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