Friends of Mine (20th Anniversary), by Adam Green

Friends of Mine (20th Anniversary)

by Adam Green

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Includes 18 previously unreleased tracks (demos, lives, covers), song by song liner notes, interview, pictures, etc.

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	1.	Bluebirds 02:08
	2.	Hard to Be a Girl 01:41
	3.	Jessica 02:37
	4.	Musical Ladders 02:20
	5.	The Prince’s Bed 02:29
	6.	Bunnyranch 01:35
	7.	Friends of Mine 02:49
	8.	Frozen in Time 02:12
	9.	Broken Joystick 01:24
	10.	I Wanna Die 01:49
	11.	Salty Candy 01:39
	12.	No Legs 02:02
	13.	We’re Not Supposed to Be Lovers 03:08
	14.	Secret Tongues 02:09
	15.	Bungee 02:53
	16.	I Wanna Die (demo) 01:53
	17.	Friends of mine (fragment memo) 00:33
	18.	What a Waster 02:17
	19.	Hard to be a Girl (demo) 01:44
	20.	Eating Noddemix 02:07
	21.	The Prince's Bed (demo) 02:44
	22.	Kokomo 03:53
	23.	Born to Run 04:32
	24.	No Legs (demo) 02:02
	25.	Jessica (demo) 02:37
	26.	Salty Candy (live) 01:11
	27.	Bungee (demo) 02:15
	28.	We're Not Supposed to be Lovers (demo) 02:56
	29.	Friends of Mine (demo) 02:55
	30.	Jessica (live) 02:45
	31.	Frozen in time (demo) 02:07
	32.	Bluebirds (demo) 02:06
	33.	Friends of mine (fragment memo 2) 00:38

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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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