Prairie School Freakout

Prairie School Freakout
Studio album by Eleventh Dream Day
Released	1988, 2003
Recorded	July 1987
Genre	Indie rock, Noise rock
Length	47:00 / 58:16 / 68:14
Label	Amoeba, Thrill Jockey
Producer	Eleventh Dream Day, Wink O'Bannon
Eleventh Dream Day chronology
1987 Eleventh Dream Day 1988 Prairie School Freakout 1989 Beet

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[2]
Trouser Press	very favorable[3]
Popmatters	favorable[4]

Prairie School Freakout is the second (and first full-length) album by Chicago-based band Eleventh Dream Day, originally released on Amoeba Records in 1988. According to the original liner notes, the album "was recorded on a hot pollution alert day during July [1987] in Louisville, Kentucky, and was made at a place called Artist Recording Service. We recorded 15 songs between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am, half of the time spent trying to fix the wild buzz coming out of Rick's amp. We finally gave up and decided to make amp buzz the theme of the record." The album was re-released and expanded in 2003 by Thrill Jockey.

Spin named it one of the '80 Excellent Records of the 80s'.^[5] The music blog Fast n Bulbous ranked it the 10th greatest indie album of all time.^[6]

Track listing

1. "Watching the Candles Burn" (Figi) – 4:01
2. "Sweet Smell" (Bean) – 4:37
3. "Coercion" (Bean) – 3:47
4. "Driving Song" (Figi) – 4:09
5. "Tarantula" (Rizzo) – 5:36
6. "Among the Pines" (Rizzo) – 6:24
7. "Through My Mouth" (McCombs) – 4:57
8. "Beach Miner" (Bean/Rizzo) – 3:42
9. "Death of Albert C. Sampson" (Bean) – 4:44
10. "Life on A String" (Rizzo) – 5:04

     

    Bonus tracks, from Wayne EP (1989)

11. "Tenth Leaving Train" (Rizzo) – 11:19^[7]
12. "Southern Pacific" (Neil Young) – 5:04^[8]
13. "Go" (Rizzo/Bean) – 4:50^[8]

References

1. Allmusic review
7. On original CD release and re-release only
8. On re-release only

References

• Thrill Jockey listing