Amazing Dream Pop / Slowcore band formed in the 80s, already disbanded.
Their sound is most of the time slow and intimal but also frenetic and passionate.
Members: Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang
Probably one of the best bands doing covers, too.
Favorite Albums:
On Fire
Today
This Is Our Music
(pretty much everything they recorded in studio)
Favorite Songs:Galaxie 500 – When Will You Come Home
Galaxie 500 – Tugboat
Galaxie 500 – Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
Galaxie 500 – Snowstorm
Galaxie 500 – Oblivious
(...and many more)
Actually i never heard any bad song by them (including demos)
On Fire (1989)
Galaxie 500 began to play beyond the Boston limits and their stock rose, especially in the UK where Today wasreceived enthusiastically. In the summer of 1989, the band re-entered Kramer’s studio to record their second album,On Fire, and its companion EP, the UK-only release Blue Thunder, both for Rough Trade. The critical acclaim for these recordings was deafening. Sounds described the album as "utter magnificence," Melody Maker called it "astunning collection of daydream pop," even Rolling Stone gave it 3½ stars.The world was beating its head on Galaxie’s door; the On Fire/Blue Thunder pairing expanded effortlessly on theband’s exquisite base. The plaintive threads of the Galaxie 500 sound had been pulled tighter by the technicalproficiency that had enveloped these ex-amateurs, and unlike so many others, technique had sharpened their instinctsrather than masked them. Playing with flash is superfluous, when you have the moxie to cover Red Crayola’s "VictoryGarden" and Joy Division’s "Ceremony," making both of them over in your own image. With the release of On Fire/Blue Thunder, Galaxie 500 took their playing to a whole new level.
Galaxie 500 - Tugboat (1989)
