Matador Records
2006
Better Days Will Haunt You
About This Album
Chavez projected an aura of a supergroup pulled from a number of world-conquering bands -- Live Skull, Wider, Skunk, Bullet Lavolta, the house band on Into the Night with Rick Dees -- that were, in fact, lucky to sell a couple thousand copies of a release and play before crowds numbering in the dozens. With the members' combined powers and a little luck (such as a contract with Matador instead of Grass), they scrapped their way to the top and didn't have to sell their souls or compromise their creativity in order to make it. At the height of the band's popularity, they sold out the Hollywood Bowl and were able to afford Reindeer Games' Donal Logue as a live sound engineer. They raised $83,000 for their inner-city youth organization, won over a talk show audience made entirely of middle-aged women, and -- and! -- according to Matador's Chris Lombardi and Gerard Cosloy, outsold every single one of their label mates (you thought it was Pavement or Chain Gang?) during their '90s reign. Matador must have assumed that everyone already had the two albums, the EP, and the debut 7", because each one of those releases went out of print at some point. It seemed to be a cruel joke, or maybe even a conspiracy of some sort.
Track List

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