Prairie School Freakout

Prairie School Freakout is the second (and first full-length) album by Chicago-based band Eleventh Dream Day, originally released on Amoeba Records in 1988. According to the original liner notes, the album "was recorded on a hot pollution alert day during July [1987] in Louisville, Kentucky, and was made at a place called Artist Recording Service. We recorded 15 songs between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am, half of the time spent trying to fix the wild buzz coming out of Rick's amp. We finally gave up and decided to make amp buzz the theme of the record." The album was re-released and expanded in 2003 by Thrill Jockey.

Track listing

1. "Watching the Candles Burn" (Figi) – 4:01
2. "Sweet Smell" (Bean) – 4:37
3. "Coercion" (Bean) – 3:47
4. "Driving Song" (Figi) – 4:09
5. "Tarantula" (Rizzo) – 5:36
6. "Among the Pines" (Rizzo) – 6:24
7. "Through My Mouth" (McCombs) – 4:57
8. "Beach Miner" (Bean/Rizzo) – 3:42
9. "Death of Albert C. Sampson" (Bean) – 4:44
10. "Life on A String" (Rizzo) – 5:04

     

    Bonus tracks, from Wayne EP (1989)

11. "Tenth Leaving Train" (Rizzo) – 11:19^[2]
12. "Southern Pacific" (Neil Young) – 5:04^[3]
13. "Go" (Rizzo/Bean) – 4:50^[3]

References

• Thrill Jockey listing