Souvlaki (album)

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Souvlaki
Souvlaki cover
Studio album by Slowdive
Released Summer 1993 (U.K.)
Feb. 1994 (U.S.)
Recorded Courtyard Studios, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
The White House Studios
Genre Shoegazing, Dream pop
Length 40:40
With bonus tracks: 57:00
Remaster: 1:29:44
Label Creation Records
SBK/Creation (U.S.)
Producer Chris Hufford
Martin Nichols
Professional reviews
Slowdive chronology
Just For a Day
(1991)		 Souvlaki
(1993)		 Pygmalion
(1995)
Singles from Souvlaki
  1. "Alison"
    Released: February 1994

Souvlaki is an album released in 1993 (see 1993 in music) by the British dream pop/shoegazing band Slowdive. Widely regarded as their best album, it benefits from synthesizer contributions from co-producer Brian Eno on "Sing" (which he co-wrote) and "Here She Comes." The album's U.S. release came in February 1994, with the previously unreleased cover of "Some Velvet Morning" (written by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in 1967) and three tracks from the band's 1993 5 EP, comprising the four U.S. release bonus tracks.

According to interviews with the band, the album was titled after an explicit skit on the first album by telephone pranksters The Jerky Boys, containing the line: "My wife loves that Greek shit. She'll suck your cock like souvlaki."[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original release

  1. "Alison" – 3:52
  2. "Machine Gun" – 4:28
  3. "40 Days" – 3:15
  4. "Sing" – 4:49
  5. "Here She Comes" – 2:21
  6. "Souvlaki Space Station" – 5:59
  7. "When the Sun Hits" – 4:47
  8. "Altogether" – 3:42
  9. "Melon Yellow" – 3:53
  10. "Dagger" – 3:34
  11. "Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23*
  12. "Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08*
  13. "Missing You" – 4:15*
  14. "Country Rain" – 3:34*

* Bonus tracks not found on original UK release.

[edit] 2006 Re-Release

Souvlaki, along with the other Slowdive albums, was remastered and re-released in 2005/2006. The first disc's tracklist is identical to the original UK release.

[edit] Disc 2

  1. "Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23
  2. "So Tired" – 4:03
  3. "Moussaka Chaos" – 6:24
  4. "In Mind" – 3:45
  5. "Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08
  6. "Missing You" – 4:15
  7. "Country Rain" – 3:34
  8. "In Mind (Bandulu Mix)" – 8:06
  9. "In Mind (Reload Mix)" – 10:26

[edit] References

  1. ^ From the liner notes of the 2006 re-release of the album


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Neil Halstead | Rachel Goswell | Nick Chaplin | Christian Savill | Ian McCutcheon
Former members: Adrian Sell | Simon Scott
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Just for a Day | Souvlaki | Pygmalion
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Associated acts: Televise | Mojave 3 | Monster Movie