Girish Mahajan (Editor)

2×4 (Guadalcanal Diary album)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1987 (1987)

Length
  
43:16

Artist
  
Guadalcanal Diary

Producer
  
Don Dixon

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
1985–87

2X4 (1987)
  
Flip-Flop (1989)

Release date
  
1987

Label
  
Elektra Records

2×4 (Guadalcanal Diary album) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaenthumb5

Similar
  
Jamboree, Walking in the Shad, Flip‑Flop, In Thrall, Eponymous

2X4 is the third album by Guadalcanal Diary. It was released in 1987. It was number 64 on Paste Magazine's "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s", wherein they called it a "masterpiece".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Litany (Life Goes On)" (Attaway) – 3:41
  2. "Under the Yoke" (Walls) – 4:28
  3. "Get over It" (Attaway/Crowe) – 3:00
  4. "Little Birds" (Attaway) – 3:57
  5. "Things Fall Apart" (Attaway/Poe/Walls) – 2:44
  6. "Let the Big Wheel Roll" (Walls) – 2:40
  7. "And Your Bird Can Sing" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07
  8. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Walls) – 3:13
  9. "Newborn" (Attaway) – 4:41
  10. "Winds of Change" (Walls) – 2:55
  11. "Say Please" (Attaway) – 2:10
  12. "3 AM" (Attaway/Walls) – 4:12
  13. "Lips of Steel" (Attaway/Walls) – 3:28

Bonus tracks

  1. "Home [Joe Blaney Mix]" – 2:42
  2. "Shango" – 4:29
  3. "It's Time" – 2:30
  4. "Carrying the Torch (demo version)" – 2:56
  5. "Just an Excuse (demo version)" – 3:03
  6. "Lips of Steel (demo version)" – 3:36
  7. "Under the Yoke (demo version)" – 3:04
  8. "Winds of Change (demo version)" – 3:21
  9. "Get Over It (demo version)" – 2:18
  10. "3 A.M. (demo version)" – 3:53
  11. "Tutti-Frutti (demo version)" – 1:52

Personnel

  • Terry Allen – photography
  • Murray Attaway – guitar, harmonica, vocals
  • Joe Blaney – mixing
  • Rhett Crowe – bass guitar
  • Don Dixon – producer
  • Guadalcanal Diary – artwork
  • George Pappas – engineer
  • John Poe – drums, vocals
  • Dan Vaganek – engineer
  • Jeff Walls – guitar, keyboards, vocals, kalimba, lap steel guitar

    • Album

    Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Litany (Life Goes On)3:43
    2Under the Yoke3:26
    3Get Over It2:56

    References

    2×4 (Guadalcanal Diary album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA