Red Hot + Bothered/Indie Rock Guide To Dating [Explicit Lyrics]

Va-Red Hot & Bothered | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 22, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Reprise / Ada
• ASIN: B000005JCK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,534 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sensational Gravity Boy

2. Still Flat

3. The Mirror Is Gone

4. Mouthwash

5. Indierockinstrumental

6. Some Fantasy

7. Little League

8. Hazmats

9. Mainland China

10. The Fontana

11. Sotto Voce

12. Rex's Blues

13. Empty Yard

14. Miracleland

15. Snail Trail

16. Hopeless

17. Servicing Man

18. Quietly Approaching

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew?, January 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Hot + Bothered/Indie Rock Guide To Dating (Audio CD)

This is one of of those CD's that I got out of the bargain bin - which I frequently do just to look for something new and caught the Jay Farrar/Kelly Willis duet on the back of the jacket. That alone was worth the 4 bucks in my book. Anyway - wasn't expecting too much and have been pleasantly blown away by what I found. Would highly encourage anyone who's even thinking of buying it to do so - you won't be disappointed. Highlights for me were tracks - 2, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, & 17 though not necessarily in that order. Much depends on my mood. Oh yeah - have never heard guitars like the ones on the Verlaines track - just and outstanding raucous celebration. Like standing on a pile of dead rock stars....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Secret GBV/Breeders one-off track!, August 24, 2007

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TheUnseenHand (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hot + Bothered/Indie Rock Guide To Dating (Audio CD)

All by itself, one track makes this comp a must-own: "Sensational Gravity Boy", recorded by Freedom Cruise, which was basically a Robert Pollard song recorded by an early-90s style Guided by Voices lineup (Pollard/Sprout/Greer) with guest vocals by Kim and Kelley Deal of The Breeders. Is this among the truly great GBV songs not included on Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes? Yes. For sure.

Yeah, wisenheimer, the song is available elsewhere. But be "with it" and own it the way it first appeared and was lost to the scatter and flood of 90s independent rock.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars old and in the way?, January 3, 2010

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Boxodreams "[e-mail]" (district of columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hot + Bothered/Indie Rock Guide To Dating (Audio CD)

Bought it when it came out, which now makes me growing progressively old today as I pull it out of the rack Jan. 3, 2010. Indie guy one day, cut-out bin (oh, don't tell me you don't know what that is!) the next. Such lovely flow here, from the GBV/Deal sisters Marvel Comics-style team-up opener, to the Built To Spill/Caustic Resin back-of-the book team-up it dives right into. Loud-soft-loud: That's the aesthetic indie used to love and live by, back in the day when the Three P's -- Pixies, Pollard and Pavement -- briefly ruled the cool kids' Earth. We just passed out of a swiftly moving, terribly slo-motion tragic horror of a decade -- all Bush and no play -- that ends with the people's masterstroke choice, Barack Obama, pummeled daily by the sourest meanies you'd ever want to call neighbors, all Republican. Boy, you can understand now how they'd nail up a poor visionary genius like Jesus if this divinely human intellectual middle-of-the-roader can't even catch a single break. To me, indie rock has always avoided and ignored this sort of big, important stuff, and, instead, drilled down deep into the relatively lightweight but deeply personal daydreams and daily disappointments of urban and suburban white kids. With all the crap going on, what disenchanted youth in his/her right mind wouldn't rather hear a banging drum and a rocking guitar from someone who could easily be, well, them? Red, Hot and Bothered is subtitled "The Indie Rock Guide to Dating" and it's a conceptual and musical winner, from fold-out game board and poster to tunes stuffed within. It's the kind of package that has been forgotten in the age of computer load-up of music, although the songs lend themselves perfectly to pluck and choose for iPod. There's a dash of delicate, a smidge of forlorn Americana and a healthy dollop of electric sludge, all of it pretty cool, with boys and girls playing in the same sandbox. What strikes me, as my bones harden, my hair grays, my friends scatter and settle, and my hearing somehow, curiously, remains keen, is how well the damn thing has aged. It never made a splash like the seminal Red, Hot & Blue, but it certainly seemed to those it caught hold of, like myself, a genuine gift and love letter to indie types. It still holds its cache, but maybe not to younger ears, you know? I guess I just don't know anymore. Maybe I'm out of it. And you know what? I don't care ..... Pick hit: "Mainland China" by Juicy.