Galaxie 500 – On Fire

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Label:	Rough Trade – ROUGH US 74
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	US
Released:	1989
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop

Tracklist

A1		Blue Thunder
A2		Tell Me
A3		Snowstorm
A4		Strange
A5		When Will You Come Home
B1		Decomposing Trees Tenor Saxophone – Ralph Carney
B2		Another Day Vocals – Naomi Yang
B3		Leave The Planet
B4		Plastic Bird
B5		Isn't It A Pity Organ [Cheap], Backing Vocals – Kramer (2) Songwriter – G. Harrison*

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Rough Trade Records
Copyright © – Rough Trade Records
Copyright © – Zebulon Music
Copyright © – Harrisongs
Engineered At – Noise New York
Produced At – Noise New York
Mastered At – Europadisk
Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 27629
Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 27630

Credits

Bass – Naomi Yang
Drums, Percussion – Damon Krukowski
Producer, Engineer, Liner Notes [New York City, July 1989] – Kramer (2)
Songwriter [All Songs By] – Galaxie 500
Vocals, Guitar – Dean Wareham

Notes

Produced and engineered at Noise New York 1989

[On back sleeve:]
℗ and © Rough Trade Records
Made in Canada

Kramer, courtesy of Shimmy-Disc.

[On label, side A:]
© 1989 Zebulon Music BMI
℗ 1989 Rough Trade Records

[On label, side B:]
© 1989 Zebulon Music BMI except Isn't it a pity by G. Harrison © 1970 Harrisongs
℗ 1989 Rough Trade Records

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 0 2313-80074-1 3
Barcode (Scanned): 023138007413
Matrix / Runout (Side-A, etched - Variant 1): Galaxie 500 A Europadisk DMM M1SF1 27629
Matrix / Runout (Side-B, etched - Variant 1): Galaxie 500 B Europadisk DMM ROUGH US 71B 27630(3)
Matrix / Runout (Side-A, etched - Variant 2): Galaxie 500-A Europadisk DMM 27370 M1SF1SM1
Matrix / Runout (Side-B, etched - Variant 2): Galaxie 500-B Europadisk DMM
Matrix / Runout (Side-A, etched - Variant 3): Galaxie 500 A Europadisk DMM
Matrix / Runout (Side-B, etched - Variant 3): Galaxie 500 B Europadisk DMM
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched - Variant 4): Galaxie 500-A Europadisk DMM 27370 M1SF1SM1
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched - Variant 4): Galaxie 500-B Europadisk DMM 27371 M1SF1SM1

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	On Fire (CD, Album)	Rough Trade	Rough CD 146	UK	1989
Recently Edited	On Fire (LP, Album)	Rough Trade	ROUGH 146	UK	1989
Recently Edited	On Fire (CD, Album)	Rough Trade	Rough U.S. 74CD	US	1989
New Submission	On Fire (LP, Album)	Nuevos Medios	43 451 LE	Spain	1989
New Submission	On Fire (LP, Album, CD, )	Rough Trade, Rough Trade	ROUGH 146 R 146L, T246CD	UK	1989

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Reviews

ListeningToRecords Nov 3, 2020
When listened to on its own this album is a solid 4 stars - ☆☆☆☆
But when listened to with other albums, say after 2, 3, or 4 really solid albums by other artists, this album struggles to rate 3 stars - ☆☆☆.
I'll give On Fire the benefit of the doubt and settle on 3 stars out of 5. There's definitely something compelling about this music - I think its probably the bass player because the singing and guitar playing gets less charming with every spin.
Bottom line, I like it for some reason. (But don't listen to it after Chairs Missing by Wire because On Fire will seem ridiculous.)
globomusicale Jul 10, 2020
Where did they press this release? On vinyl i read "Made in England". So, they made it in UK and then shipped copies also to the States (and in the States they changed the barcode)? But here on this page i see "pressed by R.T.I.", so... is it a US vinyl?
I point out that for Discogs "Country" is the Nation of distribution (absurd but this is the fact).
bmpietras May 25, 2015
Has anyone else noticed quite muddy audio quality from this release?