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The Young Fresh Fellows - Electric Bird Digest Audio CD

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The Young Fresh Fellows Band: The Young Fresh Fellows
Title: Electric Bird Digest
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Release Date: 2006-11-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Telephone Tree 2: Sittin' on a Pitchfork 3: Looking Around 4: Hillbilly Drummer Girl 5: Whirlpool 6: Once in a While 7: Teen Thing 8: Thirsty 9: Fear Bitterness and Hatred 10: Hard to Mention 11: Tomorrow's Gone (And So Are You) 12: Evening 13: There's a Love 14: Swiftly But Gently

One of their best
The production is great. This is certainly a different sounding album compared to their others, and as much as I love their others, I think this is their best album. The songwriting is great. The playing is great. The whole album doesn't sound like the same song played over and over, like a lot of "alternative" albums coming out around that time. Sure, it's not as garage-y or poppy or country-fied as their other releases, but it's still a great album from a great band.


Different But Still Great
The guitar sound from Kurt Bloch is,logically, the Fastback's sound. I don't agree that this was YFF's stab at grunge. And, I think I heard when it was released, the album also reflects Scott M. 's struggle with personal problems - thus an overall harder sound.
Very different from other YFF albums, but still brillant.


The Fellows turn to a noisier, less catchy sound
" Indeed, many of the songs have this sort of feel to them. This is the noisiest, "grungiest" album by the Fellows, as can be evidenced by playing the disc and hearing the loud, discordant first track, "The Telephone Tree. That's not to say that the normally eclectic Fellows have limited themselves to one style for this album, however. "Sittin' On A Pitchfork," the second and best track, is as "poppy" as much of the band's early work (with hints of a few other styles working their way in). "The Teen Thing," one of the few Fellows songs written by drummer Tad Hutchinson, is an amusing and light-hearted (and very short) send-up of sixties-type songs, with nonsensical lyrics that just sound appropriate together. While this record is not as immediately catchy as most of the group's work, there is still plenty to like. I would agree with the reviewers who said that this is not the best introduction to the Fellows, but it is still an excellent record.


this WAS my intro to YFF!
I thought it was totally brilliant, obviously, since I went out and bought many more YFF discs after this one. Funny that people say this makes a bad intro to YFF, because it was this album that got me hooked on them. Besides, any record that gives thanks to (now-defunct) Jan's Friendly Bennett's here in Madison where it was recorded can't be all that bad.


For addicts only
This, their 6th studio album, is a bad introduction to YFF. Mel from HI really hit the nail on the head with his review below. Hardcore fans who have the rest of their earlier work will certainly want to pick it up - there's lots to like here; I'd like to single out "Hillbilly Drummer Girl" as a favorite - but there's no reason to get this before you've fully explored their first 5 records. I almost never listen to this.


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