The Crystal Lake

"The Crystal Lake"
Single by Grandaddy
from the album The Sophtware Slump
A-side The Crystal Lake
B-side Our Dying Brains
Released May 29, 2000
Format CD, vinyl
Genre Indie rock
Label V2
Writer(s) Jason Lytle
Producer Jason Lytle
Grandaddy singles chronology
"Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland"
(2000)		 "The Crystal Lake"
(2000)		 "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot."
(2000)

"The Crystal Lake" is a single by American indie rock band Grandaddy from their second album, The Sophtware Slump, released on May 29, 2000.[1] It peaked at number 38 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] The single was re-released in several formats in early 2001.

The song was listed as the 295th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.[3]

Jason Lytle described the song as "that age-old story, repeated many times in country music, of the wayward soul who leaves a small town with hopes and dreams of the unknown and winds up full of regret in some horrible little apartment in an unfriendly city".[4]

Contents

Track listings

2000 release

CD

No. Title Length
1. "The Crystal Lake"    
2. "Our Dying Brains"    
3. "First Movement/Message Send: ID#5646766"    

7"

No. Title Length
1. "The Crystal Lake"    
2. "Our Dying Brains"    

2001 releases

CD1

No. Title Length
1. "The Crystal Lake"    
2. "Moe Bandy Mountaineers"    
3. "She-Deleter"    

CD2

No. Title Length
1. "The Crystal Lake"    
2. "What Can't Be Erased"    
3. "I Don't Want to Record Anymore"    

7"

No. Title Length
1. "The Crystal Lake"    
2. "Rode My Bike to My Sister's Wedding"    

References

  1. ^ "Grandaddy Frontman in Hat Spat", NME, May 23, 2000, retrieved 2011-08-07
  2. ^ "Chart Stats - The Crystal Lake". chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=28582. Retrieved 1 August 2011. 
  3. ^ "Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 500-201". Pitchfork Media. 17 August 2009. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7685-the-top-500-tracks-of-the-2000s-500-201/5/. Retrieved 1 August 2011. 
  4. ^ McCormick, Neil (2001) "Bearded and proud", Daily Telegraph, February 1, 2001, 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
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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