LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Even as the first sounds of new wave and punk rock were being heard in New York City in the mid-'70s, the first stirrings of "indie-rock" and "guitar pop" were occurring in the unlikely locale of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and Mitch Easter were recording arguably the first "low-fi" records ever in their band the Sneakers. Though heard by few, the reverberations from these recordings spread everywhere from New York—where Stamey and Rigby were to form the dB's—to Athens, Georgia—where a band named R.E.M. hooked up with Easter to record their first two albums—to just about every college radio station in the land during the '80s. Now, Stamey and Easter have gone back into the studio to produce the definitive look at this seminal power pop band, consisting of tracks from their 1976, Don Dixon-produced EP 'The Sneakers', their 1978 LP 'In the Red' and their 1992 "reunion" record, 'Racket', plus three unreleased bonus tracks, all (except the debut EP) remastered and/or remixed for superior sound. A proud 'Collectors' Choice Music' exclusive, with notes by Scott Schinder!
Track listing:1 Ruby 2 Condition Red 3 Driving 4 Nonsequitur (of Silence) 5 Love's Like A Cuban Crisis 6 On The Brink 7 Story Of A Girl 8 What I Dig 9 Stuck On You 10 No Wonder 11 Some Kinda Fool 12 Decline And Fall 13 The Perfect Stranger 14 Be My Ambulance 15 I Will Understand 16 S'il Vous Plait 17 Quelle Folie 18 Mark Peril Theme 19 B&G Pies Commercial 20 Decline And Fall (Fidelitorium Remix) 21 Love That Girl (demo)