Rites of Spring (album)
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| Studio album by Rites of Spring | ||||
| Released | June, 1985 | |||
| Recorded | February 1985 | |||
| Genre | post hardcore | |||
| Length | 37:32 | |||
| Label | Dischord | |||
| Producer | Ian Mackaye | |||
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Rites of Spring is the first and only studio album released by influential DC post-hardcore band Rites of Spring. The twelve songs were recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February, 1985, produced by Ian MacKaye and released on vinyl in June, 1985 as Dischord Records #16. released in 1985.
The album was re-released on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, "Other Way Around", as well as the four songs from the Rites' follow-up EP, All Through a Life (track 14-17), recorded January, 1986 and released in 1987 (Dischord #22). End on End features the same cover as the debut album.
The CD and cassette originally retained the number "16", while the 1991 repress, as well as the 2001 remastered version of the same seventeen songs, were numbered "16CD" and given the new title "End On End".
The album was listed at #30 on Kurt Cobain's top 50 favorite albums. Pitchfork named this album #96 on their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. [1]
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
(All songs by Rites of Spring)
Side one
- "Spring" - 2:09
- "Deeper than Inside" - 2:17
- "For Want Of" - 3:09
- "Hain's Point" - 2:08
- "All There Is" - 2:54
- "Drink Deep" - 4:54
Side two
- "Theme" - 2:19
- "By Design" - 2:38
- "Remainder" - 2:30
- "Persistent Vision" - 2:21
- "Nudes" - 2:48
- "End on End" - 7:23
[edit] Recording details
- Guy Picciotto - vocals, Guitar
- Eddie Janney - Guitar
- Mike Fellows - Bass
- Brendan Canty - drums
- Ian MacKaye - Producer
- Michael Hampton - Producer
[edit] Accolades
- No. 96 out of Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.
[edit] References
- ^ "Top 100 albums of the 1980s". http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/staff-lists/5882-top-100-albums-of-the-1980s/1/. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
