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(s) 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]

Track listings

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"    

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. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Staff Lists: The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 500-201". Pitchfork Media. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  4. ↑ McCormick, Neil (2001) "Bearded and proud", Daily Telegraph, February 1, 2001, retrieved 2011-08-07