Various Artists-Hey Drag City (1994)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Palace Brothers, Red Red Meat, Pavement, Desert Storm, Smog, Gastr Del Sol, Silver Jews, Fruitcake, Royal Trux, Alastair Galbraith, Burnout, Red Krayola, Mantis, King Kong, Vokokesh)

Title:  Hey Drag City

Label: Drag City

Format: CD

Catalog Number: DC20CD

Year of Release: 1994

Country and Year of Edition: US 1994

Sell Price: $3.71

Sell Date: 1/9/25

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 1/3/25 M/M $13.00

Low: $1.20

Median: $3.59

Average: $4.15

High: $13.77

Current low price: $1.44

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16

Have/Want: 317/39

Where Sold: Portland, OR

Time It Took To Sell:  12 years

Where and When Bought: Sounds NYC St. Marks new $9.99 when it came out

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B

Sad To See It Go: No

Hipgnosis, the famous prog-rock designer of the 70's did this artwork.  Mojo did an interview with Roger Waters reminiscing that after viewing Po's concepts, describing dead ducks nailed to the wall disparagingly, Gilmour issued a challenge to come up with something better.  Roger apparently had the floating pig idea the rest is Animals history.

But what of the idea of the dead ducks nailed to the wall?   Well, it appears that 17 years later the idea, if not the actual art, was rehashed for this Drag City compilation of unreleased tracks from it's 1994 roster.  You get heavyweights like Pavement, Royal Trux, Silver Jews, Red Red Meat and Red Krayola as well as the most memorable track on the album which was by Smog entitled "Your Face" as in "your face when you came" and yes he was talking about (fake) orgasm face not arrival.

I remembered that track and little else on this, surprisingly even peak-period Royal Trux with the crypically named "Δ70 Of ♥'s."  We do find that it is DELTA send me your HEARTS.  A card player's anthem.   

Most of these acts I had purchased their actual releases or at least given them radio airplay.  How do you describe this, left field mainstream indie?

Feedback, plaintive and forlorn crooners mostly still active 30 years on.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Palace Brothers-Horses b/w Stable Will (1994)

Palace-Come In b/w Trudy Dies (1993)

Various Artists-Chemical Imbalance Vol. 2, No. 3 (1993)

Pavement-Father To A Sister of Thought (1995)

Pavement-Shady Lane (1997)

Pavement-Cut Your Hair (1994)

Pavement-Rattled By La Rush (1995)

Pavement-Brighten The Corners (1997)

Pavement-Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins (2004)

Various Artists-No Alternative (1993)

Stephen Malkmus-Stephen Malkmus (2001)

Suckdog "I'm Going To Be Married" b/w Smog "My Shell/Astronaut" (1991)

Peel Out In The States Programs 17 & 18 (1993)

Drunks With Guns-Alter Industrial Human Fetishisms (1987)

Sounds and Shigaku Present Beautiful Happiness (1988)

Red Krayola-Hurricane Fighter Plane (2006)

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