Classic or Dud: Eleventh Dream Day

"Beet" is one of those records that back when I used to dj I would throw on and guaranteed I'd get a bunch of people asking "whoa...what is this?"

I always liked the live promo album for that, called of course

https://www.discogs.com/release/3520489-Eleventh-Dream-Day-Borscht

Still really enjoying digging into these guys, really solid catalog.

Of the albums I've heard so far, this is probably how I'd rank them

Prairie School Freakout
Lived To Tell
Ursa Major
Riot Now!
Since Grazed
Eighth
Works For Tomorrow
Zeroes and Ones

this band should be on a level only slightly below yo la tengo

i.e. profitably touring

they are awesome

^^ otm

They should definitely have at least that level of recognition and appreciation.

For a long time my default favorite show of all time was EDD with Ira sitting in on second guitar. I never though to google it, but I just found this one song from that set:

https://soundcloud.com/pat-daly-1/eleventh-dream-day-w-ira-1

Oh shit, I found this full set of EDD with Ira just a few days later!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5HJD8riqok

!!

I'll have to check that out later

Still Grazed is an excellent record

this band should be on a level only slightly below yo la tengo

i.e. profitably touring

they are awesome

If we're judging 21st century work, EDD >> YLT.

Ever since I heard Prairie School Freakout new, one of my dreams was that EDD would back up Neil Young on an album. I guess there's still time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=200n9UOoRzU

awesome

Greil Marcus reprinted his review of Ursa Major today. Good one.
https://greilmarcus.substack.com/p/the-days-between-stations-columns-ab6

Yep