Love Tara

Eric's Trip | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 1993)
• Original Release Date: November 2, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sub Pop
• ASIN: B0000035G4
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Behind the Garage

2. Anytime You Want

3. Stove

4. Follow

5. Secret for Julie

6. Belly

7. Sunlight

8. June

9. To Know Them

10. Spring

11. Frame

12. May 11

13. My Room

14. Blinded

15. Allergic to Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An album that many other people probably hold dorkily dear.., July 11, 1999

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[e-mail] (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Tara (Audio CD)

Songs like "Behind The Garage", "Anytime You Want" (is it just me, or is this song structurally, and the end of "Stove" tonally, kinda nodding towards My Bloody Valentine, albeit not in an onpurposeseeming way at all?), "My Room", "Allergic To Love", and, well, the whole dang thing, for me, at least, especially after all this time, now serve as what Rick so well elucidated once in an old interview as "postcards or diaries, in song"...or some other such paraphrase...anyways, i wouldn't have wrote anything here if anyone else had've written anything at all, but this record really changed many rock'n'roll kids that i knew, myself included...it made us want to chronicle our lives that openly too, maybe...idunno; i'll always think of "Love Tara" as the album that made me really believe in the D.I.Y. aesthetic that seems to get ingrained into each successive generation of punk rockers by a different special album...me and my early-teen friends at the time seemed to be inspired to buy our guitars through "Nevermind" and "Goo", but inspired to actually _write songs_ through befriending these tracks...Tascam and Fostex's Canadian divisions should've given the band a cut of their increased profits during these years, in a just world, at least... ;)

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all time favorite albums, October 18, 2005

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Dan Tennant - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Tara (Audio CD)

I picked this one up on cassette after seeing the truly odd video for "Stove" on TV. I also read a brief interview with one of the members of Eric's Trip where they talked about dirt-biking in Moncton. Anyway, after I bought the cassette, I have listened to it countless times. For a while it remained in the tape deck of my '86 Pontiac Parisienne for weeks. The lo-fi home recording esthetics make you feel like you've been pulled into the room with Eric's Trip as they were recording the album. You feel like you're living next door to them. This is one of my favorite albums to listen to on a cold winter's day when it's too cold to go outside.

5.0 out of 5 stars Love Tara, November 5, 2003

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Toby Ztyles (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Tara (Audio CD)

As the other reviewer said, I'm amazed nobody else has reviewed this brilliant album. The songs are all over the map but sludg-y grunge rockers to barely-audiable folky stuff and all with the trademark stoner vocals and lo-fi vibes. When I first began hearing about ET in the early 1990s, they were lumped together with Thrush Hermit, Sloan, Change of Heart, The Inbreds, Rheostatics and all the other great Canadian bands of the era but I always thought they were very much out of step with what was going on in the rest of Canada. Maybe it was because they came together in the relatively isolation of Moncton? Who knows? It's definitely closer to the early Sebadoh stuff but even then, only because it's poorly recorded. Also, I always found their stuff pretty unsettling and kinda scary so maybe it's good to listen to around Halloween. Whatever... buy this album.