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Could be their best....
Sebadoh did alot of different things with their sound. First it was the ultra low fi stuff then the insane verbal assaults from Eric then this.... Which is like an in-between of a clean cut indie sound mixed with a raw anger-filled punk band. Most songs have normal beginnings but then move into Sonic youth territory with lots of incoherent screaming and guitar. Take the opener Soul and Fire. It's a tight normal sounding song, then as we move on with the album we find ourselves covering our ears over Eric's literally insane over-the-top screams like in Elixir is Zog, Flood and Telecosmic Alchemy. Flood is about drug use or doing drugs from what I heard in Eric's offbeat screaming. Elixir is Zog makes little sense but I think it's about date rape for some reason. Telecosmic Alchemy is just another weird punky song. Eric said it's about a comic book ad. Uhhh.

But then there's the songs that board the line of weird and actual music like Bouquet for a Siren, which is one hell of a song, but the off line singing and rampant guitar make it pretty weird within first listen it is a highlight of the album though. Fantastic disaster is another one, starts like a normal song then drives into harmonicas and screaming and alot of weird pedal use. Still it seems to flow and work so damn well. Another weird-ish song is Emma get Wild which reminds me highly of the Minutemen with a different vocalist.

But Barlow can strike back with some REALLY good songs like Cliche, Two years, two days, Forced Love, Hassle, Sacred Attetnion and Happliy Divided. Cliche is actually one of the BEST Sebadoh songs i've personally heard. Soul and Fire seems to be the winner of the best sounding/written song on the album, but I seem to love Cliche a whole lot more. Sacred Attention boarders grunge as does Two years Two Days.

Recommended if you know Sebadoh from the early onward. If you're new then start with The Sebadoh (1999) or Harmacy.

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Wish they were always this good.
I got into Sebadoh backwards. I hated The Sebadoh so much, I thought I'd never like anything this band ever did. I kinda liked Bakesale, and sice I was able to get Harmacy for cheap, I got that one too. That one I liked, so I bought Bubble and Scrape. That was good. Too darn good. These guys rock in that passionate, incompetant way that is just so satisfying when done right. They may have become victims of their own maturity in the meantime. I also like The Freed Man, even though it's totally insane.

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as close as sebadoh got to sounding like the WHITE ALBUM!!!
well sebadoh never really made a srg peppers but i would say that this is definaly there white album!!why you ask?? well besides the fact this is a singal album.this album has more twists and turn than any rollar coaster ride of music you will ever journey on.with all 3 songwriters in the band going in everwhich direction which to me makes this a awsome album.most of them playing all the instruments on there own songs .kind of like the white album..first you have Lou barlow
he has the more sensitive side here with songs like
soul and fire+forced love
than you have Jason loewenstein the stronger songwiter on this album with great rocking songs like
sister+happily divided
than of course is my favorite and really the last album with
Eric gaffney songs that make your speakers melt like
telecosmic alchemy+elixar is zog(i still have no idea what this song means but i still crank it loud)
so before thet fired eric (probably becuse his songs did not have that commercial sound) they were all makeing some great music this is sebadohs finest album.the album just goes up and down left and right but in the end like any good rollar coaster ride ya go get back on for more.so sure they went on to there most criticly acclamed album next ''BAKE SALE'' but this is there last great album as a band with everyone together making it a whole.just for me in 1994 when this came out i was and still are happy that there was still some great bands still around in the underground music scean......i guess like the beatles im glad they hung it up why they were still good...