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DGC Rarities Vol. 1
''DGC Rarities Vol. 1'' is the name of a rarities album compiled by DGC Records and released in 1994. The songs featured on this album are all b-sides, demos, covers and other rarities. Despite the implications of the title, no other volumes were ever released.
==Contents==
The album opens with "Mad Dog 20/20" by Teenage Fanclub. According to Gerard Love, the song is about being a teenager in Bellshill, Scotland. The song was an outtake from their album ''Thirteen'', and had been excluded from the record because it contained the expletive "fizzin'", a word prohibited by the Scottish Good Lyric Act of 1973. "Pay to Play" by Nirvana is an early demo version of the "Stay Away", a song that would eventually find its way onto their 1991 breakout album ''Nevermind''.〔 Weezer's contribution, "Jamie", was written as an ode to the band's first lawyer.〔 The song was recorded by Dale Johnson as part of a school project. He captured the audio live onto a 2-track recorder, without any overdubs.〔〔 Although he only managed to get a B+ on the project, Rivers Cuomo, lead singer of Weezer, remarked that the song "sounds cool () makes us feel a weird sort of nostalgia for a time in our lives that actually sucked."〔 When it came time for "Jamie" to appear on this album, the members of Weezer were worried that, sonically, it would not be up to par with other tracks. Eventually, the band's A&R representative Todd Sullivan assured them that the song's feel was "amazing", and the members finally agreed.
The Cell song "Never Too High" was recorded in January 1991 in a "cave with rock walls and a dug-out floor". Davie Lowe and Sharpie of Philly's Blue agreed to help out with the song in exchange for beer, and the song eventually was released as a single on Ecstatic Peace Records. Hole contributed "Beautiful Son" to the album. Beck submitted "Bogusflow", a "pisstake of 'Even Flow' by Pearl Jam" that decries bands and musicians wanting only to be like Nirvana; the song specifically, though cryptically, mocks Eddie Vedder. "Compilation Blues" by Sonic Youth was an outtake from their album ''Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star''. It was recorded during the final night of the album's recording sessions. The track never made it onto the final album, and Thurston Moore later called it "a total rarity."〔 According to Anna Waronker and Tony Maxwell of that dog., "Grunge Couple" was written as a tribute to both Sonic Youth and Spinal Tap.〔
"Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" by Counting Crows was written by Adam Duritz and David Bryson one night in a hotel room. Duritz kept humming guitar parts, and Bryson kept coming up with vocal melodies; the two finalized the song at 4 am and recorded a rough version of it on the hotel room's answering machine. Although it was a favorite of the band's, it did not fit with the musical stylings of ''August and Everything After'' because it was not "mopey enough", so it was left off.〔 The main part of the title is a reference to the Philip Glass opera ''Einstein on the Beach'', whereas the subtitle is a reference to John Lennon. During a self-produced and self-financed recording sessions, The Posies recorded "Open Every Window". Although the band was not pleased with a majority of the tracks recorded during this time, Jon Auer noted that "Open Every Window" was "a song desperately trying to be positive amid the depression."〔 Sloan's "Stone/Smother" is actually a cover medley of two tracks by the band Eric's Trap. The song, which makes use of drum loops, was recorded as two separate pieces before Jay Ferguson put them together on a 4-track recorder. "Wild Goose Chasing" by St. Johnny was recorded on behest of DGC Records. Because he band did not have any b-sides or outtakes for this album, they were forced to record a new song. Written in the winter of 1990, Murray Attaway's song "Allegory" opens with four lines from the Appalachian folk song "I See the Moon". Lyrically, the song revolves around the "relation of humanity to the imponderable".〔 The album closes with "Don't Tell Your Mother" by The Sundays. One of the earliest songs written by the band, it was their first studio recording, in around 1988. The song was originally a b-side to the band's single "Can't Be Sure".
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