Released 2004 Release date 2004 | Artist Grandaddy Label Ultra Music | |
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Below the Radio
(2004) Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
(2005) Similar Concrete Dunes, The Broken Down Comforter, Just Like the Fambly Cat, Under the Western Freeway, Sumday | ||
Beck we live again
Below the Radio is a mixtape put together by Jason Lytle of American indie rock band Grandaddy, and released in 2004 by Ultra Records. The album also included a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem".
Contents
Background
Ultra Records had approached Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle via his management some time earlier with the idea for him to compile a mixtape, and he decided to include tracks that he considered "sleeper hits", identifying a common theme: "They all seem to have pretty conventional and familiar chord progressions. They all have vivid imagery for me with their words. There also seems to be a bit of sadness, but not necessarily despair."
Reception
AllMusic's Matt Collar stated the album "plays like a K-Tel commercial for Gen X sad-sackism", calling it "pretty cool". Brian Howe of Pitchfork wrote "for the most part, the songs [Lytle] selected sound quite a bit like his own band. Lush yet sleek and slightly sterile is the dominant style of Below the Radio".
Track listing
- Beck – "We Live Again"
- Beulah – "Burned by the Sun"
- Earlimart – "Color Bars"
- Snow Patrol – "Run"
- Goldenboy – "Wild Was The Night"
- Giant Sand – "Bottom Line Man"
- Fruit Bats – "The Little Acorn"
- Home – "Comin' Up Empty Again"
- Jackpot – "If We Could Go Backwards"
- The Handsome Family – "I Fell"
- Little Wings – "Sand Canyon"
- Pavement – "Motion Suggests"
- Blonde Redhead – "For the Damaged"
- Virgil Shaw – "Twisted Layer"
- Grandaddy – "Nature Anthem"
Songs
1We Live AgainBeck3:03
2Burned by the SunBeulah2:47
3Color BarsEarlimart3:31