Grave Dancers Union

Released

October 6, 1992

Recorded

The Powerstation and River Sound, New York City
Pachyderm Discs, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, May 1992

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

44:42

Soul Asylum chronology

And the Horse They Rode In On
(1990)

Grave Dancers Union
(1992)

Let Your Dim Light Shine
(1995)

Singles from Grave Dancers Union

"Somebody to Shove"
Released: May 5, 1992
"Black Gold"
Released: January 1993
"Runaway Train"
Released: June 1, 1993

Professional ratings
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Allmusic
Entertainment Weekly	A
Kerrang!
Q
Robert Christgau
Rolling Stone

Grave Dancers Union is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Soul Asylum, released in 1992. The album spent 76 weeks on the Billboard music charts and was certified triple-platinum in 1993, establishing Soul Asylum as one of the most successful rock groups of the first half of the 1990s.

During recording of Grave Dancers Union, producer Michael Beinhorn grew dissatisfied with drummer Grant Young's performance and brought in Sterling Campbell. It was the beginning of the end of Young's tenure in the band. He and Campbell would each wind up playing on about half the record. Campbell was eventually named the band's official drummer.

The "Runaway Train" single, released in June 1993, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for best rock song in 1994. Though the album had sold moderately well to that point, the breakout success of that single was a major factor in the album's eventual multi-platinum sales figures.

The cover illustration is by Czech erotic art photographer Jan Saudek.

The album's title comes from the line "I tried to dance at a funeral, New Orleans style, I joined the Grave Dancers Union, I had to file", from the song "Without a Trace."

All songs written by Dave Pirner.

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