JESSICA BAILIFF & ALAN SPARHAWK highwire (Marc Bolan cover)

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a dream-team. recorded in Low's home studio.

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LOW long long long (George Harrisson cover)

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02:12 am. time to go to bed.

please enjoy this semi unknown White Album classic.

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LOW venus

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You're fed up with your friends

You're fed up with the end

You're fed up with the make-up

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LOW if you were born today

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the first time i went to a LOW-show was in may 1999, in Paris. they had started more than an hour before the announced schedule, the set was quite short, so when I made it to the Balle Au Bon péniche, a houseboat on the rive gauche bank, i literally heard the last chords of the encore. boy was i disappointed.

it was a small venue, Mimi, Alan and Zak were hanging around, no backstage space, and so, out of (at that time consistently growing) enthusiasm for their music, I accosted them.
they were quite sorry for me, and after i had told them i was living in Germany, they suggested to put me on the guest list for their show in Hamburg, opening for Mogwai.

so two weeks later, i took the train from Bonn to Hamburg. the show was amazing, apart from the physically violent sound-volume Mogwai imposed.


it was the real beginning of a LOW-commitment that abruptly ended with their first Sub Pop release. to this day, it's the band i've seen most frequently playing live (that is, eight times).

this 7" was highly sought after when it came out, and it's just thanks to my Normal Mailorder activity that i managed to get a copy. it's because of this very release that i discovered the Wurlitzer Jukebox label.
Qui l'eût cru?

check Zak's comic publishing - it's worth it!


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LOW violence

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first song on the timeless Long Division lp. gorgeous Kramer-production.

alleged innocence.


the a-side:



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LOW lift

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Low themselves don't really like that song.
but i do.

very much in the Long Division vein.

released as part of a spectacular comp 7inch, together with Lois! Alan Sparhawk plays and sings on her Infinity Plus lp, and also on the Snapshot Radio ep - just in case you care.


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LOW sleep at the bottom

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not the best Low song, far from that.
yet quite untypical, and a perfect 04:00am-track.

at home, on the road, or waiting for the first tube to come.


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LOW david & jude

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Misplaced Music' (Hood related label) first release - LOW recorded by Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic, in Olympia Washington.

and a pure Mimi&Alan&Zak-cryptic song-miniature, quite typical for their first four albums.

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LOW those girls

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one of Low's untypical songs.

enjoying life. relieved.


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LOW canada

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you can't take that stuff to canada.
you can't take it anywhere.


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