Hip-O Select
2007
Welcome To The Minority: The A&M Years 1988-1991
About This Album
In 1992, Soul Asylum became one of the first success stories of the post-Nirvana grunge explosion when their album Grave Dancer's Union went double platinum on the strength of the singles "Runaway Train" and "Somebody to Shove." But unknown to their new fans, Soul Asylum had a long history, having released their first album in 1984, and they'd already been bounced from one major label, A&M, prior to hitting the big time. The not-so-jolly irony of it all was that Soul Asylum's old fans largely turned their back on the band once they broke wide, and their new fair-weather audience for the most part didn't embrace the band's back catalog, which featured some of their best music. Welcome to the Minority: The A&M Years 1988-1991 is a three-disc set that compiles the lion's share of Soul Asylum's recordings for A&M, capturing the band in a grace moment when they were on the rise but still had the love of the underground rock scene. The set includes the two albums Soul Asylum cut for A&M in full, 1988's Hang Time and 1990's And the Horse They Rode in On, as well as a disc of unreleased live material. Hang Time is arguably Soul Asylum's finest hour, an album that manages to split the difference between slop and precision and honors both with sweat and fury.
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