Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1986 and split up in 1991, releasing three albums while together.^[1] Location in Middlesex County in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country State County Middlesex Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-City Council  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - Total 7. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The term slowcore, generally used interchangeably with sadcore, refers to a subgenre of alternative rock that developed from the downbeat melodies and slower tempos of late 1980s indie rock. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in Britain in the early 1980s, when bands like Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons, The Passions, Dead Can Dance, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane (to whom the term has been attributed) began fusing post-punk experiments with bittersweet pop... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ... Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... // Dean Wareham (born August 1, 1963, Wellington, New Zealand) is a musician who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. ... Damon Krukowski is an American musician and publisher. ... Naomi Yang is one half of the duo Damon and Naomi and one of the founding members of the seminal band Galaxie 500. ... Galaxie can refer to any of the following: A common misspelling of the word galaxy. ... Alternative music redirects here. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ...

History

Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at Dalton high school in New York City, but began playing together during their time as students at Harvard University.^[1][2][3] Wareham and Krukowski had formed a band called Speedy and the Castanets, whose bass player left, Yang joining the group, the band changing their name to Galaxie 500, after a friend's car (a Ford car of the 1960s, the Ford Galaxie 500).^[1] In their early years, Krukowski didn't own a drum kit, so he borrowed one from his Harvard classmate Conan O'Brien, who'd bought a kit but had recently given up playing it. This drum kit can be heard on many of Galaxie 500's early recordings.^{[citation needed]} // Dean Wareham (born August 1, 1963, Wellington, New Zealand) is a musician who formed the band Galaxie 500 in 1987. ... Damon Krukowski is an American musician and publisher. ... Naomi Yang is one half of the duo Damon and Naomi and one of the founding members of the seminal band Galaxie 500. ... Harvard redirects here. ... “Ford” redirects here. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ... 1966 Ford Galaxie 7 Litre Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ford Galaxie For other uses, see Galaxie (disambiguation). ... Conan Christopher OBrien (born April 18, 1963)[1] is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and TV writer, best known as host of NBCs Late Night with Conan OBrien. ...

The band began playing gigs in Boston and New York, and recorded a demo which they sent to Shimmy Disc label boss and producer Mark Kramer, who agreed to produce the band.^[1] With Kramer at the controls, the band recorded the "Tugboat" single and the "Oblivious" flexi-disc, and moved on to record their debut album, Today, which was released on the small Aurora label.^[2] In 1989, they signed to Rough Trade, and released their second album, On Fire, which has been described as "lo-fi psychedelia reminiscent of Jonathan Richman being backed by The Velvet Underground",^[2] and is considered the band's defining moment.^[1] On Fire reached number 7 in the UK Indie Chart, and met with much critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, but was less well-received by the US music press, who cited Wareham's 'vocal limitations' as a weakness.^[4][5] This article is about the state. ... Shimmy Disc is an influencial New York City based record label founded by Mark Kramer (or Kramer as he is famously known internationally, and was known years before the fictional character of the same name was invented). ... This article is an autobiography, and may not conform to Wikipedias NPOV policy. ... Flexi disc in a magazine The flexi disc is a phonograph record made of a thin vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable. ... Rough Trade Records, now a member of the RIAA[1], began as an independent record label, based in London, England. ... Lo-fi — from Low Fidelity — describes a sound recording which contains accidental artifacts, like distortion, or environmental noise, or a recording which has a limited frequency response. ... Jonathan Richman (born 16 May 1951) is an American proto-punk musician. ... This article is about the rock band. ... These are The Official UK Charts Company UK Official Indie Chart number one hits of 2007. ...

With Kramer's live sound production at the mixing board at the band's every gig, the sound and the increasingly loyal audience grew with each release.

Galaxie 500 recorded two sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 programme, these later released on the Peel Sessions album. Their cover of Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" was also voted into number 41 in 1989's Festive 50 by listeners to the show.^[6] For other persons named John Peel, see John Peel (disambiguation). ... BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ... The Festive Fifty is an annual list of the years fifty (though the exact figure has varied above and below this number) best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peels BBC Radio 1 show. ...

The band split up in the spring of 1991 after a third album, This Is Our Music, Wareham quitting the band after a lengthy American tour.^[2][3]

Galaxie 500's records were released in the US and UK on the independent Rough Trade label. When Rough Trade went bankrupt in 1991, Krukowski and Yang purchased the masters at auction, reissuing them on Rykodisc in 1997. Rykodisc Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ...

Musical style and influences

Galaxie 500 leveraged fairly minimal instrumental technique with intense atmospherics, provided by producer Kramer, and their distinctive sound bore an influence beyond the small audience for their independently released albums. The Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman have been identified as key influences.^[2][4] In interviews on the Galaxie 500 DVD Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste, Wareham cites Spacemen 3 as another key inspiration. An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... Spacemen 3 were an English rock band who formed in 1982 and whose career spanned from the post-punk to acid house eras. ...

Post-Galaxie 500 activities

After leaving Galaxie 500, Wareham tried his hand at production, working with Mercury Rev. He released a solo single, "Anesthesia" in February 1992, and formed a new band, Luna. Krukowski and Yang continued to record under the moniker Pierre Etoile, and then Damon and Naomi (whose first two releases were also produced by Kramer), and as members of Magic Hour.^[2] They also began the avant-garde press Exact Change.^[7] Mercury Rev are an American rock music group, formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, New York. ... Luna was a Dream Pop/Indie Pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood (Demeski formerly of The Feelies and Harwood formerly of New Zealand band The Chills). ... Damon & Naomi are an American folk-rock duo formed in 1991 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang formerly of Galaxie 500. ... The magic hour is another name for twilight. ...

Influence

Galaxie 500's music had an influence on many later indie music groups, including Low.^[4] It has been covered and referenced by several well known artists. In Liz Phair's song "Stratford-on-Guy", she sings, "And I was pretending that I was in a Galaxie 500 video." In Xiu Xiu's song "Dr. Troll", Jamie Stewart sings, "Listen to On Fire and pretend someone could love you." The Submarines did a cover of "Tugboat" in their recent iTunes Live Session EP, recorded with famed indie rock producer Adam Lasus. The Brian Jonestown Massacre And This Is Our Music was titled in reference to the group's album This Is Our Music (which was in turn titled after Ornette Coleman's album This Is Our Music).^[4] Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has cited Galaxie 500's album Today as "the guitar record of 1988".^[8] in music that is characterized by its perceived independence from mainstream or pop culture as a whole. ... Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota. ... Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... This article concerns Xiu Xiu, the California-based rock band. ... A promotional photo by David Horvitz. ... For other uses, see On Fire (disambiguation). ... Adam Lasus is an American music producer best known for his work in the indie music world. ... The Brian Jonestown Massacre (frequently abbreviated as BJM or The BJM) is a psychedelic rock band founded in San Francisco, California in the early 1990s, led by Anton Newcombe. ... Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. ... This Is Our Music is an album, recorded and originally released in 1960, by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman (see 1960 in music). ... Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band formed in New York City in 1981. ... Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958 in Coral Gables, Florida) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter, guitarist and tallest member of the band Sonic Youth. ... Today is a record album by Galaxie 500 released in 1988 on the record label Aurora. ...

Cover material

The group's oeuvre included a fair number of cover songs, often with arrangements that were drastically different from their original counterparts. These include:

• "Listen the Snow Is Falling" – Yoko Ono
• "Ceremony" – Joy Division/New Order
• "Submission" – Sex Pistols
• "Rain" – The Beatles
• "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" – Jonathan Richman
• "Cheese and Onions" – The Rutles
• "Here She Comes Now" – The Velvet Underground
• "Isn't It a Pity" – George Harrison
• "Final Day" – Young Marble Giants
• "Victory Garden" – Red Krayola
• "Moonshot" – Buffy St. Marie
• "Well... All Right" – Buddy Holly

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Discography

Albums

• Today (1988) Aurora
• On Fire (1989) Rough Trade
• This Is Our Music (1990) Rough Trade
• Copenhagen (live, 1990) (1997) Rykodisc
• Uncollected (rarities) (2004)
• Peel Sessions (2005)

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Compilations

• Galaxie 500 (box set) (1996) Rykodisc
• The Portable Galaxie 500 (best-of, (1998) Rykodisc

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Singles

• "Tugboat"/"King of Spain" (1988) Aurora
• "Oblivious" flexi-disc included with the Chemical Imbalance magazine
• "Blue Thunder"/"Hail" (split w/ Straightjacket Fits) (1989)
• "Blue Thunder EP" (1990) Rough Trade
• "Rain"/"Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" (1990) Caff
• "Fourth of July"/"Here She Comes Now" (1990) Rough Trade
• "Snowstorm" (live)/"Pictures" (live) (2004)

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Promotional videos

• "Tugboat" (1988)
• "Blue Thunder" (1989)
• "When Will You Come Home" (1989)
• "Fourth of July" (1990)

DVDs

• Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste (2004)

References

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External links

• A Head Full of Wishes – comprehensive site that includes a discography, lyrics, tablature, and a tour and setlist archive.