Here's to Shutting Up

Superchunk | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B00005NNEN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 18-SEP-2001

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars give it a chance, December 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Here's to Shutting Up (Audio CD)

I own all of superchunks albums and must say they are aging quite well and to this day I am suprised that they are not a household name. Anyways the days of Mac screaming are gone hes now singin, which is actually a good thing.....
No they havent gone soft just added some variety to their arsenal. What Im trying to say is give the album a chance its wonderful.....

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Maturing nicely, November 4, 2001

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Charles A Galupi "music snob" (Euless, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Here's to Shutting Up (Audio CD)

Should this be anyone's FIRST Superchunk album? Oh, no. Just as I would the Replacements, I'd point to a noisier cut of 'Chunk, probably 1994's "Foolish," and let the listener explore the maturing process if they so wished...

Is it their best? No, "Come Pick Me Up" is (so far) their masterpiece.

Still, there's a lot of interesting textures, and enough hooks crunch to make a lot of current bands dream of writing songs this good. You will find yourself humming melodies long after you've turned the CD off. You won't catch a lot of the lyrics, but half the fun is catching a line here or there.

Still, probably one of the top five of 2001...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Most laid back album yet, September 27, 2001

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Jason Brobeck (Coraopolis, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Here's to Shutting Up (Audio CD)

The last few albums have seen Superchunk getting more and more laid back with their music. It seems their intense pure-energy rocking days are over and replaced with a much more refined mellowing sound. That isn't to say this album doesn't still have some peppy tunes, almost their songs have some kind of catchy hook or refrain buried in them somewhere. The addition of keyboards changes their trademark sound quite a bit, and I'm still getting a bit used to it but it isn't as bad as it could be, the keyboards sound right at home in Late Century Dream and it probably wouldn't have sounded as good without them. At first listen I wasn't too happy with this album and thought it was fairly monotonous and bland, but after listening through it several times its starting to grow on me and I already find myself singing certain bits of it to myself long after I turn it off. I still do miss the sound of their earlier works and do wish it had a bit more of that youthful energy to it that was captured so perfectly in their Incidental Music album (still my all time favorite) - this is the reason I give it 4 stars instead of 5, just a little too laid back. So if you don't like this one at first listen, give it some time to soak in and I'm sure you'll agree that its a worthy addition to your Superchunk collection.