Early Year: Pine Box & Dance the Night Away (Reis)

Scud Mountain Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 1997)
• Original Release Date: April 22, 1997
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B0000035IR
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,079 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #90 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > American Alternative

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Silo

2. Reservoir

3. Glacier Bay

4. Peter Graves' Anatomy

5. Freight Of Fire

6. Sweet Sally

7. Oklahoma

8. Don't Know How To Tell Her

9. Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves

10. There Is No Hell (Like The Hell On This Earth)

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Freight Of Fire

2. One Hand

3. Letter To Bread

4. Television

5. (She Took His) Picture

6. Where's The Playground, Susie

7. Combine

8. Blood And Bones

9. Silo

10. Sangre De Cristo

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Early Scud Mountain, December 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Early Year: Pine Box & Dance the Night Away (Reis) (Audio CD)

Yeah, this is really good. Just like to add for the viewers that this is not much like "Massachusetts" in that it does not have a whole lot of backing instruments (including drums & electric guitar). Mostly just acoustic numbers with minimal amount of hoopla. Great songwriting and a few covers as a bonus.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars spectacular stuff..., January 6, 2006

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Chris Whitehead (AUSTIN, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Year: Pine Box & Dance the Night Away (Reis) (Audio CD)

this is an amazing set flat out..The second disc "dance the night away" sounds lush even though its simple acoustic stuff, very moody and dark sounding...country without the cornpone, but what really makes this is the "pine box" disc. the songs are creepy yet beautiful...music that sounds like it should be soundtrack music for the most dramatic scene in a movie...The Jimmy Webb covers on here are wonderful, especially Wichita Lineman.
If youre a Pernice Brothers fan, the voice is here but the music is a bit different...no matter how youre getting into this it is worth it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Pine Box is a MASTERPIECE. Get it., August 10, 2010

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David Meeker (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Year: Pine Box & Dance the Night Away (Reis) (Audio CD)

I'm a big fan of country music. Old country, alt-country, and even some new country (Ryan Bingham, Sarah Jarosz, Hayes Carll). In my humble opinion (and lord knows we all have one), the Scud Mountain Boys Pine Box LP goes down as one of the best documents of the alt-country genre in the early mid-90's scene. You can put this eerie album right alongside the Jayhawks first Bunkhouse LP, Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac and Faithless Street, all of Uncle Tupelo, and many of the early Freakwater albums. It's that good. And I personally disagree with other reviewers that their later albums were better. I wish they were. Instead, they sound to me overwrought (too many instruments) and nowhere near as heartfelt. I think it's because the Joe Pernice sound sounds best when it's really slowed down. Pine Box is, however, worth the price of admission. It's kind of a magical moment, I think, a statement that is a hard thing, for one, to capture and almost impossible to repeat. I'm thankful that they got it down and that they then tried other things, even if they didn't totally work for this listener. Highly recommend or just listen and make up your own mind.