Eleventh Dream Day’s third album “Lived To Tell” makes its Bandcamp debut today, including three previously unheard bonus tracks!
“Eleventh Dream Day created a monster of an album where ferocious guitar rock collided with ramshackle cowpunk, neatly held together by the irresistible vocal harmonies of Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean — think John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X. There’s a blistering, untamed energy hovering over Lived to Tell, perfectly exemplified by one of several standouts, “It’s Not My World.”
…some bands are more concerned about crafting timeless pieces of art, and this album remains vital today. In a fair world, Eleventh Dream Day would be superstars. This reissue is a perfect opportunity to discover their greatness.” – Bjørn Hammershaug, Tidal
“Eleventh Dream Day proves that the variables of rock n roll are limited only by the range of your creativity. Sure, there are only so many beats, so many chords, but wrap them up with inventive musical ideas and they sound reborn…the band takes a huge leap with Lived to Tell.” – Michael Corcoran / Chicago Sun Times
“This is a record to get lost in, with vocal action hovering over grinding, growling guitar noise like a heat mirage on a highway no one’s driven for years.” – Greil Marcus
“A set of smart songs with all the wired passion one could ever want.” – Ned Raggett / All Music
“Ranks as one of the best ever made by a Chicago band.” – Greg Kot / Chicago Tribune
Lived to Tell, the middle record of Eleventh Dream Day‘s three album run with Atlantic Records, is back in business!
While critically acclaimed at the time of its 1991 release, the band was never satisfied with the mastered sound of the original record.
This new issue of Lived to Tell, which will also be coming out on vinyl later this year, is remastered by Carl Saff from the original DAT archives, bringing a far more satisfying and dynamic sound to a record that captured a band at their peak.
Recorded in a barn in Cub Run, Kentucky using Timothy Powell’s Metro Mobile recording studio and mixed by Paul McKenna in Los Angeles, Lived to Tell was the highly-anticipated follow-up to EDD’s 1990 Atlantic debut, “Beet.”
After the first leg of a tour that took the band along the east coast of the U.S., guitarist Baird Figi left the road and band. Pal and guitar tech Matthew “Wink” O’Bannon filled in on the rest of the slate, touring in Europe with Yo La Tengo and on the U.S. west coast with New Zealand’s The Chills.
Lived to Tell saw the most successful run ever for the band, and landed on numerous year-end top ten lists.
Here it is, remastered and ready for your ears to experience again.
Includes three never-previously-heard bonus tracks (14-16).
Janet Beveridge Bean
Rick Rizzo
Douglas McCombs
Baird Figi
with performances by:
Brad Wood
David Foster
Produced and mixed by Paul McKenna
Recorded by Timothy Powell / Metro Mobile
Transfers and pre-production by Steve Silverstein
Mastered by Carl Saff
Recorded in the summer of 1990 in Cub Run, Kentucky in a barn.