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| released = October 1994
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| genre = *[[Alternative rock]]
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| length = 51:37
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| label = [[Matador Records]]<br />[[Beggars Banquet]]<br />Cortex Records
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| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r206187|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r206187|pure_url=yes}}]</ref>
| rev2 =[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]
| rev2Score = Positive [http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=5803 link]
| rev3 =''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3 =''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}} [https://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=UN1NUZm_CMK2Pae3gNgJ&id=8gkKAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Don%27t+Ask+Don%27t+Tell%22+Come+Zedek&q=%22Don%27t+Ask+Don%27t+Tell%22#search_anchor link]
| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8gkKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Don't+Ask+Don't+Tell%22|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion – Dilated Peoples|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=June 3, 2000|publisher=MUZE|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| rev4 =''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4 =''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4Score = B [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303969,00.html link]
| rev4Score = B<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070522041834/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,303969,00.html]</ref>
| rev5 = [[Musichound]]
| rev5 = ''[[Mondosonoro]]''
| rev5score = 9/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mondosonoro.com/criticas/discos-musica/come-dont-ask-dont-tell/|title=Come, crítica de su disco Don´t Ask Don´t Tell (Expanded Edition)|first=Don|last=Disturbios|date=November 26, 2021}}</ref>
| rev5Score = {{rating|3.5|5}} [https://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=-ZdbTPSPCYr00gTilq1n&ct=result&id=1NjOldjR5J4C&dq=Musichound+zedek&q=Don%27t+Ask%2C+Don%27t+Tell#search_anchor link]
| rev6 = ''[[Option (music magazine)|Option]]''
| rev6 = ''[[MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev6Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NjOldjR5J4C&q=Don't+Ask,+Don't+Tell|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|first=Gary|last=Graff|date=June 3, 1996|publisher=Visible Ink Press|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| rev6Score = Positive [https://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=dqdwTOTxMY3EONTLoYkL&ct=result&id=_y5LAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Option%22+%22Don%27t+Ask%2C+Don%27t+Tell%22+Zedek&q=%22Don%27t+Ask%2C+Don%27t+Tell%22+Zedek#search_anchor link]
| rev7 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev7= ''[[Ox-Fanzine]]''
| rev7score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/come-dont-ask-dont-tell-127373|title=Review|first=Ox Fanzine, Solingen|last=Deutschland|website=www.ox-fanzine.de}}</ref>
| rev7Score = Positive [https://books.google.com/books?id=rxPc6mYwIxEC&pg=PT11&dq=Come+Zedek+Brokaw&hl=en&ei=PFltTJKQA8KSjAfKl7T6CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Come%20Zedek%20Brokaw&f=false link]
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'''''Don't Ask, Don't Tell''''' is the second album by [[Boston]] [[indie rock]] band [[Come (American band)|Come]].
'''''Don't Ask, Don't Tell''''' is the second album by [[Boston]] [[indie rock]] band [[Come (American band)|Come]].


==History==
==Background==


Recorded by Carl Plaster, with whom Come had worked in their previous album, and Mike McMackin, who had previously worked with Brokaw's former band [[Codeine (band)|Codeine]], at [[Easley McCain Recording|Easley Studios]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], Tennessee, Baby Monster in [[New York City]], and The Outpost in [[Stoughton, Massachusetts]], between February and March 1994, ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' is [[Come (American band)|Come]]'s second album. It was mixed Plaster and Bryce Goggin between May and June 1994 at RPM Studios, in New York, and released in October 1994.
Recorded by Carl Plaster, with whom Come had worked in their previous album, and Mike McMackin, who had previously worked with Brokaw's former band [[Codeine (band)|Codeine]], at [[Easley McCain Recording|Easley Studios]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], Tennessee, Baby Monster in New York City, and The Outpost in [[Stoughton, Massachusetts]], between February and March 1994, ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' is [[Come (American band)|Come]]'s second album. It was mixed Plaster and Bryce Goggin between May and June 1994 at RPM Studios, in New York, and released in October 1994.


The title of the album is, to some extent, a reference to the official United States policy on [[Sexual orientation and the United States military|gay, lesbian, and bisexual people serving in the military]], "[[Don't ask, don't tell]]", which would remain in place from December 21, 1993, to September 20, 2011. As Brokaw has stated, the title is "definitely a political reference, and we were definitely pointing up the absurdity of the policy. But we also wanted it to be open ended...", going on to add that "it [also] referred to secrecy, [to] how some people around us were living."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thequietus.com/articles/11151-come-interview-neil-kulkarni | title = Kulkarni, Neil, "A New Nineties - Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear", ''The Quietus'' | date = January 17, 2013 | accessdate = 2013-03-31}}</ref>
The title of the album is, to some extent, a reference to the official United States policy on [[Sexual orientation and the United States military|gay, lesbian, and bisexual people serving in the military]], "[[Don't ask, don't tell]]", which would remain in place from December 21, 1993, to September 20, 2011. As Brokaw has stated, the title is "definitely a political reference, and we were definitely pointing up the absurdity of the policy. But we also wanted it to be open ended...", going on to add that "it [also] referred to secrecy, [to] how some people around us were living."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://thequietus.com/articles/11151-come-interview-neil-kulkarni | title = Kulkarni, Neil, "A New Nineties – Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear", ''The Quietus'' | date = January 17, 2013 | accessdate = 2013-03-31}}</ref>

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The band recorded music videos for "In/Out", directed by Julie Hardin and Amanda P. Cole, and "String" and "German Song", both directed by [[Sadie Benning]]. "String" was also released as a single in 1994, as was the song "Wrong Side" the following year.

⚫
==Critical reception==
⚫
''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine's review of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' stated that "[t]hese punky peaks, R&B valleys, and mysterioso detours into '[[Hernando's Hideaway]]' chordings merely map the route of some of the most symbiotic, emotionally affecting guitar ''[[pas de deux]]'' in recent memory."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rxPc6mYwIxEC&q=%22Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell%22%20Come%20Zedek&pg=PT12 | title = ''SPIN'', December 1994| date = December 1994}}</ref> ''[[Rough Guides|The Rough Guide to Rock]]'' stated that "the music was muddier, its pace slower, its pall heavier" than in ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' 's predecessor, 1992's ''11:11''.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&q=Come+Zedek+%22Don%27t+Ask+Don%27t+Tell%22&pg=PA1774 | title = Buckley, Peter (Ed.), ''The Rough Guide to Rock'', p. 221| isbn = 9781858284576| last1 = (Firm)| first1 = Rough Guides| year = 2003}}</ref> In its review of the album, ''Musician'' magazine described Come as "a revelation",<ref name="auto1">{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=js0aAQAAMAAJ | title = ''Musician'' magazine, Issues 195–199, 1995, p. 52| year = 1995}}</ref> going on to state that the guitars of Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek "intertwine portentous conversations like birds on barbed wire."<ref name="auto1"/> The magazine characterization of the band's sound was as follows: "Using a bedrock of blues and punk (instead of warmed-over heavy metal), the quartet connects on a grandly visceral scale, creating a roughly frayed sound whose threads may be lost on the mainstream of the current 'alternative' audience."<ref name="auto1"/> ''[[Melody Maker]]'''s review of the album characterized it as "one of the chilliest records you’ll ever hear"<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://zedek.sowrong.org/melody.html | title="Love Comes in Spurts", ''Melody Maker'' |year= 1994|accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> and praised the band's music, describing it as "two guitars twining and lacerating, drums and bass that make up a double bed of nails,"<ref name="auto"/> whilst Neil Strauss, writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as "devastating, with slow, burning songs that shudder and wince beneath Ms. Zedek's pained growl."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/13/arts/rock-review-discordant-and-brittle-tinged-with-the-eerie.html | title = ''The New York Times'' December 13, 1994, p. 18.}}</ref>


⚫
The band recorded [[music video]]s for "In/Out", directed by Julie Hardin and Amanda P. Cole, and "String" and "German Song", both directed by [[Sadie Benning]]. "String" was also released as a [[Single (music)|single]] in 1994, as was the song "Wrong Side" the following year.


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
*[[Thalia Zedek]]&nbsp;– [[vocals]], [[guitar]], [[percussion]]
*[[Thalia Zedek]]&nbsp;– vocals, guitar, percussion
*[[Chris Brokaw]]&nbsp;– guitar, vocals, percussion
*[[Chris Brokaw]]&nbsp;– guitar, vocals, percussion
*[[Sean O'Brien (musician)|Sean O'Brien]]&nbsp;– [[bass guitar|bass]]
*[[Sean O'Brien (musician)|Sean O'Brien]]&nbsp;– bass
*[[Arthur Johnson (musician)|Arthur Johnson]]&nbsp;– [[drum kit|drums]], vocals
*[[Arthur Johnson (musician)|Arthur Johnson]]&nbsp;– drums, vocals


<small>with</small>
<small>with</small>


*[[Mike McMackin]]&nbsp;– [[piano]]
*[[Mike McMackin]]&nbsp;– piano


== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
{{Tracklist
| title1 = Finish Line
| title1 = Finish Line
| writer1 = Come
| writer1 = Come
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{{Track listing
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==Critical reception==
| headline = 2021 Expanded Edition Reissue – Wrong Sides
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''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine's review of ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' stated that "[t]hese punky peaks, R&B valleys, and mysterioso detours into '[[Hernando's Hideaway]]' chordings merely map the route of some of the most symbiotic, emotionally affecting guitar ''[[pas de deux]]'' in recent memory."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rxPc6mYwIxEC&lpg=PT11&dq=%22Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell%22%20Come%20Zedek&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false | title = ''SPIN'', December 1994}}</ref> ''[[Rough Guides|The Rough Guide to Rock]]'' stated that "the music was muddier, its pace slower, its pall heavier" than in ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' 's predecessor, 1992's ''11:11''.<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fie47qSuTsoC&lpg=PA1774&dq=Come%20Zedek%20%22Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell%22&pg=PA1774#v=onepage&q=Come%20Zedek%20%22Don't%20Ask%20Don't%20Tell%22&f=false | title = Buckley, Peter (Ed.), ''The Rough Guide to Rock'', p. 221}}</ref> In its review of the album, ''Musician'' magazine described Come as "a revelation",<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=js0aAQAAMAAJ | title = ''Musician'' magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52}}</ref> going on to state that the guitars of Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek "intertwine portentous conversations like birds on barbed wire."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=js0aAQAAMAAJ | title = ''Musician'' magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52}}</ref> The magazine characterization of the band's sound was as follows: "Using a bedrock of blues and punk (instead of warmed-over heavy metal), the quartet connects on a grandly visceral scale, creating a roughly frayed sound whose threads may be lost on the mainstream of the current 'alternative' audience."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=js0aAQAAMAAJ | title = ''Musician'' magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52}}</ref> ''[[Melody Maker]]'''s review of the album characterized it as "one of the chilliest records you’ll ever hear"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zedek.sowrong.org/melody.html | title="Love Comes in Spurts", ''Melody Maker'' |year= 1994|accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> and praised the band's music, describing it as "two guitars twining and lacerating, drums and bass that make up a double bed of nails,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zedek.sowrong.org/melody.html | title="Love Comes in Spurts", ''Melody Maker'' |year= 1994|accessdate=2013-03-27}}</ref> whilst Neil Strauss, writing for ''[[The New York Times]]'' described it as "devastating, with slow, burning songs that shudder and wince beneath Ms. Zedek's pained growl."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/13/arts/rock-review-discordant-and-brittle-tinged-with-the-eerie.html | title = ''The New York Times'' December 13, 1994, p. 18.}}</ref>
| total_length =
| title1 = Car
| writer1 = Come
| length1 = 6:04
| title2 = Last Mistake
| writer2 = Come
| length2 = 5:42
| title3 = Submerge
| writer3 = Come
| length3 = 4:21
| title4 = [[A Trip to Marineville|Loin of the Surf]]
| writer4 = [[Swell Maps]]
| length4 = 2:05
| title5 = SVK
| writer5 = Come
| length5 = 2:49
| title6 = German Song (Demo)
| writer6 = Come
| length6 = 5:51
| title7 = [[Wild Gift|Adult Books]]
| writer7 = [[X (American band)|X]]
| length7 = 3:45
| title8 = Who Jumped in my Grave
| writer8 = Come
| length8 = 4:48
| title9 = Angelhead
| writer9 = Come
| length9 = 4:00
| title10 = Cimarron
| writer10 = Come
| length10 = 3:58
}}



==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 23:33, 11 July 2024

Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Studio album by
Come
ReleasedOctober 1994
RecordedFebruary–March 1994
Genre
Length51:37
LabelMatador Records
Beggars Banquet
Cortex Records
ProducerCome
Bryce Goggin
Mike McMackin
Carl Plaster
Come chronology
11:11
(1992) 		Don't Ask, Don't Tell
(1994) 		Near-Life Experience
(1996)
Singles from Don't Ask, Don't Tell
  1. "Wrong Side"
    Released: 31 March 1994
  2. "In/Out"
    Released: 1994
  3. "String"
    Released: 1995
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[3]
Mondosonoro9/10[4]
MusicHound Rock[5]
Ox-Fanzine[6]

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is the second album by Boston indie rock band Come.

Background

[edit]

Recorded by Carl Plaster, with whom Come had worked in their previous album, and Mike McMackin, who had previously worked with Brokaw's former band Codeine, at Easley Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, Baby Monster in New York City, and The Outpost in Stoughton, Massachusetts, between February and March 1994, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is Come's second album. It was mixed Plaster and Bryce Goggin between May and June 1994 at RPM Studios, in New York, and released in October 1994.

The title of the album is, to some extent, a reference to the official United States policy on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people serving in the military, "Don't ask, don't tell", which would remain in place from December 21, 1993, to September 20, 2011. As Brokaw has stated, the title is "definitely a political reference, and we were definitely pointing up the absurdity of the policy. But we also wanted it to be open ended...", going on to add that "it [also] referred to secrecy, [to] how some people around us were living."[7]

The band recorded music videos for "In/Out", directed by Julie Hardin and Amanda P. Cole, and "String" and "German Song", both directed by Sadie Benning. "String" was also released as a single in 1994, as was the song "Wrong Side" the following year.

Critical reception

[edit]

Spin magazine's review of Don't Ask, Don't Tell stated that "[t]hese punky peaks, R&B valleys, and mysterioso detours into 'Hernando's Hideaway' chordings merely map the route of some of the most symbiotic, emotionally affecting guitar pas de deux in recent memory."[8] The Rough Guide to Rock stated that "the music was muddier, its pace slower, its pall heavier" than in Don't Ask, Don't Tell 's predecessor, 1992's 11:11.[9] In its review of the album, Musician magazine described Come as "a revelation",[10] going on to state that the guitars of Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek "intertwine portentous conversations like birds on barbed wire."[10] The magazine characterization of the band's sound was as follows: "Using a bedrock of blues and punk (instead of warmed-over heavy metal), the quartet connects on a grandly visceral scale, creating a roughly frayed sound whose threads may be lost on the mainstream of the current 'alternative' audience."[10] Melody Maker's review of the album characterized it as "one of the chilliest records you’ll ever hear"[11] and praised the band's music, describing it as "two guitars twining and lacerating, drums and bass that make up a double bed of nails,"[11] whilst Neil Strauss, writing for The New York Times described it as "devastating, with slow, burning songs that shudder and wince beneath Ms. Zedek's pained growl."[12]


Personnel

[edit]

with

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Finish Line"Come6:34
2."Mercury Falls"Come4:16
3."Yr Reign"Come4:19
4."Poison"Come2:26
5."Let's Get Lost"Come7:07
6."String"Come3:49
7."German Song"Come5:54
8."In/Out"Come4:45
9."Wrong Side"Come4:45
10."Arrive"Come7:36
2021 Expanded Edition Reissue – Wrong Sides
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Car"Come6:04
2."Last Mistake"Come5:42
3."Submerge"Come4:21
4."Loin of the Surf"Swell Maps2:05
5."SVK"Come2:49
6."German Song (Demo)"Come5:51
7."Adult Books"X3:45
8."Who Jumped in my Grave"Come4:48
9."Angelhead"Come4:00
10."Cimarron"Come3:58


References

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  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (June 3, 2000). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Brown, Marion – Dilated Peoples". MUZE – via Google Books.
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ Disturbios, Don (November 26, 2021). "Come, crítica de su disco Don´t Ask Don´t Tell (Expanded Edition)".
  5. ^ Graff, Gary (June 3, 1996). "MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide". Visible Ink Press – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Deutschland, Ox Fanzine, Solingen. "Review". www.ox-fanzine.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Kulkarni, Neil, "A New Nineties – Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear", The Quietus". January 17, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
  8. ^ SPIN, December 1994. December 1994.
  9. ^ (Firm), Rough Guides (2003). Buckley, Peter (Ed.), The Rough Guide to Rock, p. 221. ISBN 9781858284576.
  10. ^ a b c Musician magazine, Issues 195–199, 1995, p. 52. 1995.
  11. ^ a b ""Love Comes in Spurts", Melody Maker". 1994. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
  12. ^ The New York Times December 13, 1994, p. 18.
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