Today (Galaxie 500 album)
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Today is the debut album by American dream pop
band Galaxie 500
, released in 1988 on the independent label Aurora Records.
Dream pop
Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...
band Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500
Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums.-History:Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time...
, released in 1988 on the independent label Aurora Records.
Track listing
All songs written by Galaxie 500 except as noted.- "Flowers" - 4:26
- "Pictures" - 3:23
- "Parking Lot" - 2:52
- "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste" (Jonathan RichmanJonathan RichmanJonathan Michael Richman is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic backing...
) - 6:47 - "Temperature's Rising" - 5:05
- "Oblivious" - 3:18
- "It's Getting Late" - 3:29
- "Instrumental" - 3:01
- "Tugboat" - 3:53
- "King of Spain" (bonus track) - 4:33
Release history
Year | Label | Format | Catalog no. | Country | Bonus tracks |
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1988 | Aurora | LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
002 | US | |
1989 | Schemer | CD | 8905 | Germany | "King of Spain," "Crazy" |
1991 | Rough Trade US Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove... |
CD | R266 | US | "King of Spain" |
1991 | Rough Trade US Rough Trade Records Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove... |
LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
R266 | US | |
1994 | Rockville | cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel... |
6082 | US | |
1997 | Rykodisc Rykodisc Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:... |
enhanced CD Enhanced CD Enhanced CD, also known as CD Extra and CD Plus, is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both Compact Disc and CD-ROM players.... |
10356 | US | "King of Spain," "Tugboat" (video) |
2010 | 20/20/20 | LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... , CD |
202020.07 | US | Bonus disc: Uncollected (CD version only), "King of Spain" |