Boston Beigel Yeah!

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Boston Beigel Yeah!
Speed ​​Niggs studio album

Publication
(s)

1989, on CD 1995

Label (s) Longstocking Records , Beat all the Tambourines

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Indie rock

Title (number)

LP 12, CD 19

running time

72:24 (CD)

occupation
  • Jan Beigel - bass , vocals

Other musicians:

production

Dirk Österwind

Studio (s)

Österwind Studios in Essen

chronology
- Boston Beigel Yeah! Another Valley On The Long Decline
(1990)

Boston Beigel Yeah! is the debut album of the German indie rock band Speed ​​Niggs from Detmold in East Westphalia . It was released in the fall of 1989. The album, originally only released as an LP and soon out of print, was re-released on CD in 1995.

classification

The album was released about half a year after the band was founded and was named record of the month in the then influential music magazine Spex . The band, which consisted entirely of unknown musicians, became known in the German indie music scene in one fell swoop.

The album sounds like an unfinished demo recording and is musically based on musicians like Jimi Hendrix , the songwriting is reminiscent of Neil Young . You can also hear the influence of American guitar bands that were popular at the time, such as the Lemonheads or Dinosaur Jr. The reference to these bands, which all came from Boston , is indicated in the album title.

criticism

The album and the band were often accused of a lack of innovation and creativity. It is astonishing that the head of the Speed ​​Niggs, Christopher Uhe, later orientated himself heavily towards experimental bands like Sonic Youth and musicians like Beck . From these influences is on Boston Beigel Yeah! still little to hear.

Cover

The drawing on the cover comes from the Maltese-American comic artist Joe Sacco . The black and white picture shows a punk who makes himself comfortable on a deck chair with a tequila bottle in the midst of a doom and gloom.

Track list

LP

page A

  1. Fancy Clothes - 5:00 am
  2. Ain't no more fun - 2:58
  3. Suicide Night - 4:50
  4. The Way I like it - 2:57
  5. Watery Eyes (acoustic) - 1:42
  6. Crawl baby - 4:35

Side B

  1. Pull it out - 5:11
  2. Bush Hog Ride - 2:18
  3. Beautiful this Way - 2:48
  4. Frat Slob - 5:05
  5. Winter long - 4:05
  6. Bundy - 3:25

All songs were written by Christopher Uhe and / or the Speed ​​Niggs, Winterlong by Neil Young .

Additional tracks on the CD released in 1995

  1. My Pal (God) - 3:16
  2. Gray isn´t Black (The Ladies) - 2:01
  3. Lotta Love (Neil Young) - 2:08
  4. I could never take the Place of your Man ( Prince ) - 3:09
  5. All the Same (acoustic) - 2:46
  6. You ain't going Nowhere ( Bob Dylan ) -
  7. She's got balls ( AC / DC ) - 3:31

All songs are cover versions of the specified bands and musicians. The song All the Same by Christopher Uhe also released on the album 667 - Right between the Dicks in 1991.

The song Ain't going Nowhere with Evan Dando from the Lemonheads is a live recording from the Ecstacy in Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Lohmann. No sleep ´til Deathmold In: What's that noise 1991/1992. (accessed on February 17, 2012)