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Grave Dancers Union

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Released
  
October 6, 1992

Artist
  
Soul Asylum

Producer
  
Michael Beinhorn

Genres
  
Alternative rock, Grunge

Length
  
44:42

Release date
  
6 October 1992

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Recorded
  
The Powerstation and River Sound, New York CityPachyderm Discs, Cannon Falls, MinnesotaCherokee Studios, Hollywood, May 1992

Grave Dancers Union(1992)
  
Let Your Dim Light Shine(1995)

Similar
  
Soul Asylum albums, Grunge albums

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Grave Dancers Union is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Soul Asylum, released in 1992. The album spent 76 weeks on the Billboard music charts and was certified triple-platinum in 1993, establishing Soul Asylum as one of the most successful rock groups of the first half of the 1990s.

Contents

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Overview

During recording of Grave Dancers Union, producer Michael Beinhorn grew dissatisfied with drummer Grant Young's performance and brought in Sterling Campbell. It was the beginning of the end of Young's tenure in the band. He and Campbell would each wind up playing on about half the record. Campbell was eventually named the band's official drummer.

The "Runaway Train" single, released in June 1993, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for best rock song in 1994. Though the album had sold moderately well to that point, the breakout success of that single was a major factor in the album's eventual multi-platinum sales figures.

The cover illustration is by Czech erotic art photographer Jan Saudek.

The album's title comes from the line "I tried to dance at a funeral, New Orleans style, I joined the Grave Dancers Union, I had to file", from the song "Without a Trace."

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Pirner.

  1. "Somebody to Shove" – 3:15
  2. "Black Gold" – 3:57
  3. "Runaway Train" – 4:26
  4. "Keep It Up" – 3:48
  5. "Homesick" – 3:34
  6. "Get on Out" – 3:30
  7. "New World" – 4:04
  8. "April Fool" – 3:45
  9. "Without a Trace" – 3:33
  10. "Growing into You" – 3:13
  11. "99%" – 3:59
  12. "The Sun Maid" – 3:51

Singles

  1. "Somebody to Shove"
  2. "New World"
  3. "Black Gold"
  4. "Runaway Train"
  5. "Without a Trace"

Band members

  • Dave Pirner – guitar, arranger, vocals, horn arrangements
  • Dan Murphy – guitar, vocals
  • Karl Mueller – bass
  • Grant Young – drums

    • Additional musicians

  • Sterling Campbell – drums & percussion
  • Booker T. Jones III – organ, Hammond organ
  • Kraig Johnson, Gary Louris – background vocals
  • Meridian String Quartet – strings
  • Sonny Kompanek – arranger, conductor

    • Production and staff

  • Michael Beinhorn – arranger, celeste, glockenspiel, producer, horn arrangements
  • Chris Shaw - engineer
  • Eric Anderson, Bruce Ross – additional engineering
  • David Michael Dill, Dan Gellert, Bill Smith – assistant engineers
  • Andy Wallace – mixing
  • David Leonard – mixing of "The Sun Maid"
  • Steve Sisco – mixing assistant
  • Wally Traugott – mastering
  • Francesca Restrepo – art direction, design
  • Jan Saudek – photography

    • Songs

    1Somebody to Shove3:15
    2Black Gold3:55
    3Runaway Train4:25

    References

    Grave Dancers Union Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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