Sugar-File Under: Easy Listening (1994)
Artist: Sugar
Title: File Under: Easy Listening
Year of Release: 1994
Country and Year of Edition: US 1994
Sell Price: $2.99
Sell Date: 1/14/25
Condition: M/NM sealed, drill cut in spine
Discogs Last Sold: 1/7/25 M/NM $4.00
Low: $0.94
Median: $2.00
Average: $2.68
High: $12.95
Current low price: $0.50
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 92
Have/Want: 1664/55
Where Sold: Annandale, NJ
Time It Took To Sell: 13 years
Where and When Bought: internet early 90's 75 cents on half.com
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-
Sad To See It Go: No
About 20 years ago I accidentally ordered a 75 cent copy of this on the long departed half.com website, forgetting that I bought the CD when it was new. This was a sealed cutout and one that I thought I never would get rid of. Well, the original one I bought still sits on a shelf in storage but this ancient error has finally been corrected.
Merge did a fancy expansion/remastering of the Sugar catalog back in 2019 including this one. Considering the band only lasted 1992-1995, they had 2 albums, a mini album and a bunch of eps. This was certainly a creative high period for Bob Mould.
There is one song that I completely forgot about that rose above the rest then and now, "What You Want It To Be." Sometimes with Bob Mould songs going back to the Husker's, there is something that sticks in my craw in the slow to mid-tempo that isn't particularly a heavily played song live or anything anyone talks about. But for me, that's a great song, more so than singles like "Your Favorite Thing," "Believe What You're Saying" or "Gee Angel" which all led off their own EPs.
Mould has such a distinctive quality; it seems really odd that there was a pervasive feeling in reality and the world at large that this band had run it's course shortly after release. It isn't really that inferior to the other "pop" record Copper Blue.
Certainly, it is better than many other things released in 1994.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
Hüsker Dü-Metal Circus (1983)
Various Artists-No Alternative (1993)
Scrawl-Misery (Someone Is Winning) b/w Just Plain Bad (1992)
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