DGC Rarities, Vol. 1
| DGC Rarities Vol. 1 | |
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| Compilation album by various artists | |
| Released | July 5, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1990–1994 |
| Genre | Alternative rock |
| Length | 50:25 |
| Language | English |
| Label | DGC |
| Producer | Various |
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| Allmusic |   |
DGC Rarities Vol. 1 is 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 recorded by bands on the label. Despite the implications of the title, no other volumes were ever released.
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 "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 [and] 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.
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