Best song on Galaxie 500 - On Fire

Blue Thunder and it should win this thread easily. Now "This Is Our Music" would be quite competitive I'd think.

I suspect there would be much love for Tell Me and Strange too.

2nd "Blue Thunder". Still like their first record more.

Another Day.. with a bullet!

Plastic Bird sounds like me trying to write/play a G500 song.

I like Tell Me a lot more than Blue Thunder. I listen to this album less than This Is Our Music or Today though.

the way a man might climb fuji or mckinley over everest..

ha yeah.

there will be love for decomposing trees

When You Will Come Home was my introduction to the band, via a video on 120 minutes and it's always touched me the most.

decomposing trees for me

Snowstorm

which is the one with all the la-la-la's?

Snowstorm

Snowstrom or Another Day...

i'll go with Snowstorm.

Blue Thunder

tough call:

"Strange" (I stood line line, and ate my Twinkie")

or

"When Will You Come Home" ("watching TV all alone, watching Kojak on my own")

I'm voting for Isn't It A Pity" and I don't give a damn that it's a cover.
But I could have gone with "strange" or "snowstorm."

Blue Thuder w/out sax = awesome
w/ sax = very painful

Strange is wonderful. It sounds like it could easily have been a Today song, played more breezily. I love that it ended up how it did.

I could have chosen Snowstorm, for being the first Galaxie 500 song I ever heard, a live version from some gig, broadcast on Snub TV. I remember Antoine De Caunes saying something about The Velvet Underground and then this band just tearing it up through a strange, slow haze.

Decomposing Trees and Blue Thunder both start off so great but there's something not quite right about where they go. Maybe with Decomposing Trees it's just that final tinkle that undersells it.

I went with Isn't It A Pity.

I haven't listened listened to this album in the longest. Five years, I guess, seeing as it wasn't on my computer. Thanks for reminding me.

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oh, when will i come

i think everyone needs to give 'another day' another listen!

It is a great song.

seriously this album is the very definition of a "grower". on the surface you have a verging on tone-deaf singer whining over extremely simplistic songs which cause you to ponder whether the band got their guitars for christmas. but if you're latching onto the surface, you're listening for the wrong things. this album strikes a resonating blow when you listen to it unconsciously and let its homogenous plaintive tones wash over you. being patient and undemanding will reveal the spoils of this album over time.

Kind of shocked by "Isn't It A Pity" placing only in the middle. Sure, it's a cover but come on people! One of those bands that gets called seminal over and over again but, surprise, it's all true. Would like to see Uncollected pressed on wax at some point in time...

i'd probably place "decomposing trees" as the stand-out

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"Decomposing Trees" all the way for me. It's the ultimate "explosion in slow motion" song. The way the drums bring the guitars to the surface after which they take off at you all know which point in the song. And all that is augmented by the AWESOME ("Absolute Beginners") saxophone part after which it's "Lift off" and so long earthly worms...

God I love this band so much it could make me cry if I'd put some effort in

put some effort in! be a man!

Decomposing Trees, Another Day or Snowstorm - dunno if I can choose past narrowing it down to those three. This album is one of my all-time favorites.

'Decomposing Trees' is definitely my favourite, thanks to that shoegaze/dreampop poll someone ran a while back. 'Explosion in slow motion' is otm.

And all that is augmented by the AWESOME ("Absolute Beginners") saxophone part

Hilarious but true. The sax brings the song into a whole new atmosphere.

<3 the sax
hey, while we're here, something very cool -- Magic Hour (featuring damon & naomi) is on Bandcamp now! Checkin out the comp of singles/rarities: https://magic-hour.bandcamp.com/album/magic-moments
reunion?!

Wareham & band were terrific in SF performing this LP last night. I haven't followed his career at all but for Galaxie, and it was remarkable to me that he sounded pretty much exactly the same 30 years on. Great show.

oh hey some of my bandmates were there too. honestly I thought it was kind of a dick move to do that album without Damon and Naomi but eh whatever (wouldn't be the first Dean Wareham dick move)

how were the Papercuts?

I only caught their last couple of tunes, but very pleasant psych-pop I guess I'd call it. I'd give an album a spin.
As for playing the album w/o D&O, I don't know much about their history but I assumed it was a "never play together again" kind of relationship.

oh it is v much that kind of relationship