Adam Green - Friends of Mine (20th Anniversary) '2023

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
1.01. Bluebirds
1.02. Hard to Be a Girl
1.03. Jessica
1.04. Musical Ladders
1.05. The Prince's Bed
1.06. Bunnyranch
1.07. Friends of Mine
1.08. Frozen in Time
1.09. Broken Joystick
1.10. I Wanna Die
1.11. Salty Candy
1.12. No Legs
1.13. We're Not Supposed to Be Lovers
1.14. Secret Tongues
1.15. Bungee

CD2
2.01. I wanna die (demo)
2.02. Friends of mine (fragment 1)
2.03. What a waster
2.04. Hard to be a girl (demo)
2.05. Eating nod demix
2.06. The Prince's bed (demo)
2.07. Kokomo (with Ben Kweller)
2.08. Born to run
2.09. No legs (demo)
2.10. Jessica (demo)
2.11. Salty Candy (live)
2.12. Bungee (demo)
2.13. We're not supposed to be lovers (demo)
2.14. Friends of mine (demo)
2.15. Jessica (live)
2.16. Frozen in time (demo)
2.17. Bluebirds (demo)
2.18. Friends of mine (fragment 2)

On june 30th 2023 Capitane Records will re-issue the 20th Anniversary of Adam
Green's Friends of Mine. For fans of Green and his band The Moldy Peaches, it
may be hard to believe that it has been twenty years since those early days of
the 2000s when the indie rock world was set ablaze by a new generation of
artists, composers, and songwriters. Within what felt like only a few months,
bands like The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Libertines, and The Moldy
Peaches, provided indie music audiences with fresh iterations and
interpretations of the rock and roll canon, with influences that included both
standard bearers like The Velvet Underground, Television, The Stones, The Doors,
The Stooges, Leonard Cohen, The Modern Lovers, and Bob Dylan, and also more
recent artists like Beck, Daniel Johnston, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Will Oldham,
Pavement, and The Silver Jews. The results varied between straight up rock and
roll and punk rock with a songwriting, folk-inspired, consciousness. Gone were
the ripped-up jeans and flannels of yore. Tight trousers and leather jackets
ruled the day.

It was on the heels of the success of his band The Moldy Peaches (who signed
along with The Strokes to Rough Trade Records in 2001 and subsequently toured
alongside them) that Adam Green wrote and recorded Friends of Mine, the seminal
album that would define a new direction in his career. Diverging from the
home-recorded, 8 track-analog framework of his previous albums, Green adopted
what then seemed like a distinctly hi-fidelity sound, complete with a full band,
crooning vocals, and a string section (with arraignments by Jane Scarpentoni).
Friends of Mine drew on the work of Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, and Frank
Sinatra, while its lyrical content felt as if derived from symbolist poetry and
the surrealism of Brecht and Dylan. The result was something altogether new, a
record that could feel both touchingly sad but also sardonic, satirical, louche,
and even laugh-out-loud funny. Songs like "Jessica" would become anthems to a
new generation of young indie rock fans both in the United States and Europe.

Capitane is proud to release Friends of Mine as a double LP, with a second disc
of outtakes, B-sides, and live versions. This deluxe edition features notes on
the songs by Green, a text which provides new insights into his often cryptic
lyrical methodology along with anecdotes from the days when these songs were
composed. Also featured is a conversation between Green and Dan Myers
(producer), Steven Mertens (bass player), Matt Ramono (drummer) and Larissa
Brown White (Adam's manager at the time). The five old friends do a deep dive
into the production of Friends of Mine, as reflect more broadly on that bygone
era. The 2023 edition of Friends of Mine is a testament to an artist and an
album that stand the test of time.



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