Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93

Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93
Studio album by
Released1994
Studiohome-recorded album
GenreFolk rock, lo-fi
LabelSmells Like Records[1] - SLR 8
Lou Barlow chronology
Lou B's Wasted Pieces '87 - '93
(1993)
Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93
(1994)
Another Collection of Home Recordings
(1994)

Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings 89-93 is an album by Lou Barlow, released as Louis Barlow's Acoustic Sentridoh in 1994 in the United States by Smells Like Records.[2][3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Rolling Stone[5]

Rolling Stone deemed the album "nervously sweet hearth rock with strong madcap echoes of Syd Barrett."[6] A later review in Rolling Stone, by Mark Kemp, wrote that "if you can take the occasional overpowering distortion, the emotional rewards are devastating."[5] The New York Times called it "a benchmark of the [home recording] genre."[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lou Barlow

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Stronger"02:27
2."Chokechain"03:08
3."Only Losers"02:04(*)
4."Breakdown Day"02:18(*)
5."Rise Below Slowly"01:43(*)
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Dragdown Memory"03:20
2."Not Nice To Be Nice"01:46
3."Mellow, Cool, And Painfully Aware"02:15(*)
4."Crackers And Coffee"01:25
5."High School"02:43

(*) originally appeared on Losers, a Sentridoh cassette released by Shrimper.

References

  1. ^ "Spins". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. July 8, 1994 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Sentence, Warren. "Person to Person". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  3. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Sebadoh". www.trouserpress.com.
  4. ^ "Winning Losers: A Collection of Home Recordings - Lou Barlow | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  5. ^ a b Kemp, Mark (Dec 1, 1994). "Recordings". Rolling Stone (696): 126.
  6. ^ Fricke, David (Jun 16, 1994). "On the edge". Rolling Stone (684): 110.
  7. ^ Schoemer, Karen (24 Oct 1999). "Pop That's Produced Alone at Home Gets Personal". 2. The New York Times. p. 35.