Egg Hunt (band)
| "Me and You" | |
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| Single by Egg Hunt | |
| B-side | "We All Fall Down" (2:49) |
| Released | October 1986 |
| Format | 7" single |
| Recorded | March 27, 28 and 30, 1986 |
| Studio | Southern |
| Genre | Post-hardcore |
| Length | 3:48 |
| Label | Dischord |
| Writer(s) | Ian MacKaye |
| Producer(s) | Egg Hunt |
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| AllMusic |   |
The single play record "Me and You", also known as Egg Hunt, and 2 Songs, is the first and only stand-alone release by the American experimental post-hardcore duoEgg Hunt.
Egg Hunt's only output, a piece of "experimental, post-hardcore" music, is notable for its B-side, "We All Fall Down", a "post-punk melodic masterpiece" whose lyrics are a heartfelt and bitter reflection on the demise of Washington, D.C.'s 1985 Revolution Summer:
In search of the quiet life
We all fall down
In search of the righteous life
We all fall down
The song was originally written by Ian MacKaye for his band Embrace, whose other members rejected it.
Although seemingly a small release in comparison to Dischord's significant catalog, this record is still a notable sample of MacKaye and Jeff Nelson's songwriting abilities, as well as their chemistry together as artists.
The single features MacKaye's recording debut as a guitarist and his final collaboration with Nelson.
Egg Hunt was a one-off musical experiment of long time friends and musicians Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, former singer and drummer, respectively, of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and Dischord Records co-founders.
In the spring of 1986, during a MacKaye and Nelson trip to London, England to discuss possible European distribution of Dischord releases with Southern Studios, its owner, John Loder, invited them to do, just for fun, some recording while they were there. They recorded four songs in three days, and they liked the results so much that they decided to release a two-song single record to commemorate the occasion. They dubbed it "Egg Hunt", since it was recorded over Easter weekend.
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