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I Never Even Asked For Light
''I Never Even Asked for Light'' is the second studio album by Lullaby for the Working Class. It was released October 21, 1997 on Bar/None Records. Track listing # "Untitled" # "Show Me How the Robots Dance" # "Irish Wake" # "Jester's Siren" # "Hypnotist (Song for Daniel H.)" # "In Honor of My Stumbling" ...
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Lullaby For The Working Class
Lullaby for the Working Class was an indie folk rock band from Lincoln, Nebraska, active from the mid-to-late 1990s. Fronted by Omaha, Nebraska singer-songwriter Ted Stevens (of the bands Mayday and Cursive), the group also featured multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, his brother, producer A.J. Mogis, and drummer Shane Aspegren of Berg Sans Nipple. Discography Albums *''Blanket Warm'' (1996 · Bar/None Records) *'' I Never Even Asked for Light'' (1997 · Bar/None Records) *''Song'' (1999 · Bar/None Records) Singles *''Consolation'' (1996) *''In Honor of My Stumbling'' (1997) *''The Hypnotist'' (1997) (released on Rykodisc Europe) *''The Ebb & Flow, The Come & Go, The To & Fro'' (1998) See also *Mayday Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organiz .. ...
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Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ...
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Bar/None
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Early history Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982. The first release on Bar/None was by Rage to Live, whose leader, Glenn Morrow, soon became a partner in the label. Morrow had already built a network of contacts in the alternative music community having toured nationally with his previous band, The Individuals, and had also worked in the A&R department of Warner Bros. and as the managing editor of ''New York Rocker'' magazine. In 2000, Prendergast left New Jersey and moved back to Ireland, sold his shares to Morrow. The Bar/None debut album of They Might Be Giants sold more than 100,000 copies and their follow-up, ''Lincoln'', more than doubled those sales. Other artists that started on Bar/None and went on to the major record label ...
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Blanket Warm
''Blanket Warm'' is the debut studio album of Lullaby for the Working Class. It was released September 24, 1996 on Bar/None Records. Track listing # "Good Morning" - 4:01 # "Honey, Drop the Knife" - 3:16 # "Turpentine" - 3:44 # "Spreading the Evening Sky with Crows" - 3:13 # "Boar's Nest" - 3:52 # "Eskimo Song Duel" - 1:46 # "Three Peas in a Pod" - 4:00 # "Rye" - 3:50 # "Queen of the Long-Legged Insects" - 3:09 # "The Drama of Your Life" - 3:52 # "February North 24th St." - 2:49 # "The Wounded Spider" - 3:45 # "Good Night" - 10:22 Personnel ;Lullaby for the Working Class * A.J. Mogis - bass *Anil Seth - cello *Nathan Putens - clarinet *Clint Schnase, Shane Aspegren - drums *Mike Mogis - guitar, banjo, mandolin, glockenspiel *Andy Strain, Johnathon Hischke - trombone *Nate Walcott - trumpet *Chris Gordon - violin *Ted Stevens Theodore Fulton Stevens Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Senator from Alaska fr ...
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Song (Lullaby For The Working Class Album)
''Song'' is the third and final studio album by Lullaby for the Working Class. It was released in 1999 on Bar/None Records. Critical reception ''Trouser Press'' wrote: "Both playful indie-poppers and studious chamber ensemble, Lullaby maps a course through ten songs, establishing and contrasting melodies, building acoustic walls of sound more akin to My Bloody Valentine than Mazzy Star." ''Exclaim!'' thought that Lullaby for the Working Class "have fully descended into over-orchestrated meaninglessness." Track listing # "Expand, Contract" # "Inherent Song" # "Asleep on the Subway" # "Seizures" # "Non Serviam" # "Sketchings on a Bar Room Napkin" # "Kitchen Song" # "Ghosts" # "Still Life" Personnel ;Lullaby for the Working Class *Matt Silcock – accordion *Katie Swoboda, Liz Schueller – cello *Eric Medley – clarinet * A.J. Mogis – bass, piano *Shane Aspegren – drums, percussion *Mike Mogis – guitar, pedal steel, hammered dulcimer, banjo, vibraphone *Eri ...
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Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ...
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Bar/None Records
Bar/None Records is an independent record label based in Hoboken, New Jersey. Early history Tom Prendergast started Bar/None in early 1986 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Having previously worked in pirate radio and booked and promoted bands in his native Ireland, Prendergast moved to Hoboken in 1982. The first release on Bar/None was by Rage to Live, whose leader, Glenn Morrow, soon became a partner in the label. Morrow had already built a network of contacts in the alternative music community having toured nationally with his previous band, The Individuals, and had also worked in the A&R department of Warner Bros. and as the managing editor of ''New York Rocker'' magazine. In 2000, Prendergast left New Jersey and moved back to Ireland, sold his shares to Morrow. The Bar/None debut album of They Might Be Giants sold more than 100,000 copies and their follow-up, ''Lincoln'', more than doubled those sales. Other artists that started on Bar/None and went on to the major record label ...
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Mike Mogis
Michael Riley Mogis (born May 16, 1974) is an American producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios (previously known as Dead Space Recording and, earlier, Whoopass Recording). Mogis currently runs ARC (Another Recording Company) in downtown Omaha. Mike has engineered, produced, and performed in many of the releases on the Saddle Creek label, including records by Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Lullaby for the Working Class, Jenny Lewis, Tilly and the Wall and Elizabeth & The Catapult. He is also producing an album for Rachael Yamagata. He has become a permanent member of Bright Eyes and was also a member of both Lullaby for the Working Class and We'd Rather Be Flying, generally playing guitar, although he also plays mandolin, banjo, pedal steel, glockenspiel, and hammered dulcimer, among other instruments. He worked with Lightspeed Champion (aka Devonte Hynes), former me ...
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Ted Stevens (musician)
Ted Stevens (born July 4, 1975) is an American rock musician from Omaha, Nebraska, best known as the guitarist and backup singer for the band Cursive, as well as fronting Mayday. He previously fronted the indie folk band Lullaby for the Working Class. Release history With Lullaby for the Working Class *'' Blanket Warm'' (1996 · Bar/None Records) *'' I Never Even Asked for Light'' (1997 · Bar/None Records) *''Song'' (1999 · Bar/None Records) With Cursive *'' Domestica'' (2000, Saddle Creek Records) *'' Burst and Bloom'' (2001, Saddle Creek Records) *'' 8 Teeth to Eat You'' (2002, Better Looking Records) *''The Ugly Organ'' (2003, Saddle Creek Records) *'' Happy Hollow'' (2006, Saddle Creek Records) *''Mama, I'm Swollen'' (2009, Saddle Creek Records) *'' I Am Gemini'' (2012, Saddle Creek Records) With Mayday *'' Old Blood'' (2002 · Saddle Creek Records) *'' I Know Your Troubles Been Long'' (2003 · Bar/None Records d Greyday Records p *'' Bushido Karaoke'' (2005 · Sa ...
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1997 Albums
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Lullaby For The Working Class Albums
A lullaby (), or cradle song, is a soothing song or piece of music that is usually played for (or sung to) children (for adults see music and sleep). The purposes of lullabies vary. In some societies they are used to pass down cultural knowledge or tradition. In addition, lullabies are often used for the developing of communication skills, indication of emotional intent, maintenance of infants' undivided attention, modulation of infants' arousal, and regulation of behavior. Perhaps one of the most important uses of lullabies is as a sleep aid for infants. As a result, the music is often simple and repetitive. Lullabies can be found in many countries, and have existed since ancient times. Etymology The term 'lullaby' derives from the Middle English ''lullen'' ("to lull") and ''by'' 'e''(in the sense of "near"); it was first recorded circa 1560. A folk etymology derives ''lullaby'' from "Lilith-Abi" (Hebrew for "Lilith, begone"). In the Jewish tradition, Lilith was a demon who w ...
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