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Gas Food Lodging / Green on Red [2 Lps on One CD]

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Take the 15 bucks and buy this album. This is where Son Volt, Wilco, Whiskeytown, Old 97s and any other band in this genre got their inspiration.
Gas, Food, Lodging ranks right up there with The Del Fuegos: The Longest Day & Boston, MA, The Meat Puppets: II, REM: Murmur, The Replacements: Let it Be, Guadalcanal Diary: Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, Husker Du: Flip Your Wig, Zen Arcade & New Day Rising, The Long Ryders: State of Our Union, The Minutemen: Double Nickles on the Dime, The Beat Farmers: Tales from the New West and Camper Van Beethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory as some of the greatest albums of the 1980s.
Take advantage of this re-release...for its been a long time coming.

Next to the DeBeers running the Diamond business scam, music has become the greatest scam of all time. Britney Speers goes multiplatinum and yet nobody knows who the hell Green On Red is.

These CDs are extremely good, as good as anything that Neil Young has released.

Of course, nobody will read this review though because nobody has bought a Green On Red CD for about 7 years now.

Green On Red was the one band that had a lot of influence upon my listening with all that was being released during the indie/rail-pop type music. One band that I truly miss and wish I was able to afford all of their CD's, wish now that I never got read of my LPs.

i bought this after hearing mike heidorn, the drummer of uncle tupelo, mention them in an interview as being a band of similar strain that he respected at the time his band was gaining noteriety. well, mike, yes and no. honestly, i expected a lot, and ended up thinking that i had expected more. this was an impulse buy...i saw it in my favorite store randomly, a new reissue of this band-i-had-read-about's best album with an early EP thrown in for good measure. so i got it, and expected something as genuine and rough-sounding as uncle tupelo's first two records. but this is WAY more produced and slick than those records, and that sort of ruined the experience for me. i'll have to revisit this soon to see if i still feel the same way. the songs, for their part, are uniformly solid and sometimes wonderful, as in the almost-hit "sixteen days" which sounds like a song steve earle might have made legitimately famous had it been his own. all the same, this record is infinitely superior to their very vanilla "best of" collection.