''The Freed Man'' is the debut album by
Sebadoh
Sebadoh () is an American indie rock band formed in 1986 in Northampton, Massachusetts, by Eric Gaffney and Lou Barlow, with multi-instrumentalist Jason Loewenstein completing the line-up in 1989. Barlow co-created Sebadoh as an outlet for his ...
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Lou Barlow
Louis Knox Barlow (born July 17, 1966) is an American alternative rock musician and songwriter. A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion, Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock mus ...
and
Eric Gaffney
Eric Gaffney (born December 25, 1967, in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American songwriter and recording artist, and has been home recording on cassette since 1981. An active participant in the Western Mass hardcore scene, in 1983 he founded ...
). The title refers to the Friedman Complex apartments at
Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
where Lou Barlow was living with his then-girlfriend Kathleen Billus. As Barlow says in the liner notes, "... we named our first co-headlining tape after the Friedman dormitory where we both were living against regulations, with our girlfriends on the Smith (all women's) College campus .."
Domino
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces, commonly known as dominoes. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also ca ...
re-released this album in 2007. The re-release contains 52 tracks instead of the original 32.
Track listing
# "Bridge Was You"
# "Soulmate"
# "I Love Me"
# "Nest"
# "Careless Mind Hands"
# "True Hardcore"
# "Close Enough"
# "Loosened Screw"
# "Solid Brown"
# "Made Real"
# "Crumbs"
# "Narrow Stories"
# "Drifts on Through"
# "Wall of Doubt"
# "Lou Rap"
# "Growin' Up with You"
# "Healthy Sick"
# "Land of the Lords"
# "Ladybugs"
# "Moldy Bread"
# "Squirrel Freedom Overdrive"
# "Burning Out"
# "Bolder"
# "Why Do You Cut Off Your Sleeves"
# "Wrists"
# "Last Day of School"
# "Punch in the Nose"
# "Deny"
# "Level Anything"
# "Jealous Evil"
# "K-sensa My I"
# "Mothra"
Reissue
# "Healthy Sick"
# "Level Anything"
# "Soulmate"
# "Ladybugs"
# "Close Enough"
# "True Hardcore"
# "Julienne"
# "Wrists"
# "Amherst Hanging House"
# "McKinley's Lament"
# "Solid Brown"
# "Narrow Stories"
# "Bridge Was You"
# "Drifts on Thru"
# "Overturns"
# "
Yellow Submarine" (
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
cover)
# "Squirrel Freedom Overdrive"
# "Little Man"
# "Land of the Lords"
# "Bolder"
# "Believe"
# "Deny"
# "Wall of Doubt"
# "Crumbs"
# "I Love Me"
# "K-Sensa-My"
# "Lou Rap"
# "Punch in the Nose"
# "Resistance to Flo"
# "Stop the Wheel" (aka "Mothra")
# "Loose n Screw"
# "Oak Street Raga"
# "Last Day of School"
# "Jealous Evil"
# "Moldy Bread"
# "Made Real"
# "Cindy"
# "Nest"
# "My Decision"
# "Fire of July"
# "Jaundice"
# "Design"
# "Dance"
# "Cyster"
# "Powerbroker"
# "The Lorax"
# "Pig"
# "Hung Up"
# "Slow to Learn"
# "Elements"
# "Attention" (live)
# "Your Long Journey" (
Doc Watson
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. W ...
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References
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1989 albums
Sebadoh albums
Homestead Records albums
Domino Recording Company albums
Domino Recording Company compilation albums