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CONSTANTINES

Shine A Light - SP569

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The first pressing of the The Constantines’ self-titled (and Juno Award-nominated) debut (released on Three Gut Records in 2001) was fittingly packaged so that, upon opening the red cardstock booklet, you’d find a single strike anywhere match. In an effort to not ruin the beauty and poignancy of a thing through over-explanation, suffice it to say that if your relationship with rock and roll is not fundamentally a quest for fire (elemental, transformative, consuming), you’ve missed the point. This from Magnet magazine: "They’re young offenders with sharpened teeth who make grinding, literate punk with the elasti-to-explosive guitars heard on Fugazi’s “Smallpox Champion,” the stark lyrical economy of a Vonnegut-penned newspaper obituary…" And: “The Constantines are old souls in young bodies-guys in their early 20s who sound like Joe Strummer backed by Fugazi – making music that wakes the sleeping and the dead.” Shine a Light is The Constantines’ second full-length and first for Sub Pop (Three Gut continues as the band’s home north of the border).

Released: 2003-08-19 (CD), 2003-08-19 (LP), 2009-08-12 (MP3s)

CD - $12

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MP3S - $9.90

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TRACKS

  1. NATIONAL HUM
  2. SHINE A LIGHT
  3. NIGHTTIME/ANYTIME (IT’S ALRIGHT)
  4. INSECTIVORA
  5. YOUNG LIONS
  6. GOODBYE BABY & AMEN
  7. ON TO YOU
  8. POISON
  9. SCOUNDREL BABIES
  10. TIGER & CRANE
  11. TANK COMMANDER (HUNG UP IN A WAREHOUSE TOWN)
  12. SUB-DOMESTIC

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