Year After Year

Idaho | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1993)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HWR
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,638 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. God's Green Earth

2. Skyscrape

3. Gone

4. Here to Go

5. Sundown

6. Memorial Day

7. One Sunday

8. The Only Road

9. Let's Cheat Death

10. Save

11. Year After Year

12. Endgame

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Distilled passion, November 14, 2000

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Dirk Hugo (Cape Town, South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Year After Year (Audio CD)

Now that the dust has settled on the socio-musical phenomenon that was "grunge", the true innovators of rock music from the early '90s can finally claim their place. Idaho's debut album was a tour de force of concise songwriting, inspired vocal performance and ear-tingling guitar noise. Jeff Martin's vocals ranged from narcoleptic drones to impassioned howls, supported by a wall of overdriven guitar fuzz and feedback that has long since served as a blueprint for a multitude of welterweight rock pretenders. The album contains a generous amount of nihilism that borders on depression, and this alone will alienate many listeners. However, those that have the desire to venture beyond Idaho's gloomy facade will find a wealth of invigorating sonic delights.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pummeling sad melody, February 28, 2000

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cudgel (bristol, pa. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Year After Year (Audio CD)

it's a shame this is the record of idaho's that's out of print because it is the best. idaho sound genuinely, seriously bummed on this disc but what keeps it from being a misery-fest are the many moments when the songs just erupt in stunning howling melody ('here to go' is catharticly beautiful, really spine tingling). the guitars ring forever and the drums just drive ahead with druggy insistence while jeff martin croons like he's about to slide off his stool or bellows in abandon.

lots of bands do the sadcore thing but this is the real deal! it's bracing and beautiful despite the bleakness, an incredible record.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A droning drain, December 11, 2008

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IRate - See all my reviews

This review is from: Year After Year (Audio CD)

2 1/2

Moody and unmoving four chord distortion ditties which often go nowhere with uneccesary progressions, vocal indulgences, and an overall despondent aesthetic which works against intent, shrinking some decent but already severely limited songs into a bitter blur.