Below the Radio

Below the Radio
Compilation album by various artists
Released 2004
Label Ultra
various artists chronology
Sumday
(2003)		 Below the Radio
(2004)		 Excerpts from the Diary of Todd Zilla
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media (7.3/10)[2]

Below the Radio is a compilation album put together by Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, and released in 2004 by Ultra Records.

Ultra had approached Lytle via his management some time earlier with the idea, and he decided to include tracks that he considered "sleeper hits", identifying a common theme: "They all seem to have pretty conventional and familiar chord progressions. They all have vivid imagery for me with their words. There also seems to be a bit of sadness, but not necessarily despair."[3]

The album also included a new Grandaddy track, "Nature Anthem".[3]

Allmusic's Matt Collar stated the album "plays like a K-Tel commercial for Gen X sad sack-ism", calling it "pretty cool".[1]

Track listing

  1. Beck - "We Live Again"
  2. Beulah - "Burned by the Sun"
  3. Earlimart - "Color Bars"
  4. Snow Patrol - "Run"
  5. Goldenboy - "Wild Was The Night"
  6. Giant Sand - "Bottom Line Man"
  7. Fruit Bats - "The Little Acorn"
  8. Home - "Comin' Up Empty Again"
  9. Jackpot - "If We Could Go Backwards"
  10. The Handsome Family - "I Fell"
  11. Little Wings - "Sand Canyon"
  12. Pavement - "Motion Suggests"
  13. Blonde Redhead - "For the Damaged"
  14. Virgil Shaw - "Twisted Layer"
  15. Grandaddy - "Nature Anthem"

References

  1. ^ a b Matt Collar. "Artist's Choice: Below the Radio - Grandaddy". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/artists-choice-below-the-radio-r713236. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  2. ^ Brian Howe (1 November 2004). "Album Reviews: Grandaddy: Below the Radio". Pitchfork Media. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3548-below-the-radio/. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  3. ^ a b MacDonald, John (2002) "Jason Lytle made you a mixtape", Prefix, January 1, 2002, retrieved 2011-08-07
Grandaddy
Aaron Burtch · Tim Dryden · Jim Fairchild · Kevin Garcia · Jason Lytle
Studio albums
Self-released albums
Prepare to Bawl (1992) · Recorded Live Amongst Friends and Fidget (1994) · Complex Party Come Along Theories (1994) · Happy Happy X-Mas from Jason (1996)  · Live at the Art Factory (1997) · The Windfall Varietal (2000)
Unreleased albums
Don't Sock the Tryer (1996)
Compilations
The Broken Down Comforter Collection (1999) · Concrete Dunes (2002) · Below the Radio (2004)
EPs
Singles
"Could This Be Love" · "Taster"/"Nebraska" · "Everything Beautiful Is Far Away" · "Laughing Stock" · "Summer Here Kids" · "A.M. 180" · "The Crystal Lake" · "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot." · "Hewlett's Daughter" · "El Caminos in the West" · "I'm on Standby"/"Stray Dog and the Chocolate Shake" · "Now It's On" · "Nature Anthem" · "Elevate Myself"
Promotional singles
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