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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> |
''[[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> |
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| Released | October 1994 | |||
| Recorded | February 1994-March 1994 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock Blues | |||
| Length | 51:37 | |||
| Label | Matador Records Beggars Banquet Cortex Records | |||
| Producer | Come Bryce Goggin Mike McMackin Carl Plaster | |||
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| Singles from Don't Ask, Don't Tell | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| CMJ New Music Monthly | Positive link |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  link |
| Entertainment Weekly | B link |
| Musichound | link |
| Option | Positive link |
| Spin | Positive link |
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is the second album by Boston indie rock band Come.
History
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."[1]
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.
Personnel
- Thalia Zedek – vocals, guitar, percussion
- Chris Brokaw – guitar, vocals, percussion
- Sean O'Brien – bass
- Arthur Johnson – drums, vocals
with
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Finish Line" | Come | 6:34 |
| 2. | "Mercury Falls" | Come | 4:16 |
| 3. | "Yr Reign" | Come | 4:19 |
| 4. | "Poison" | Come | 2:26 |
| 5. | "Let's Get Lost" | Come | 7:07 |
| 6. | "String" | Come | 3:49 |
| 7. | "German Song" | Come | 5:54 |
| 8. | "In/Out" | Come | 4:45 |
| 9. | "Wrong Side" | Come | 4:45 |
| 10. | "Arrive" | Come | 7:36 |
Critical reception
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."[2] The Rough Guide to Rock stated that "the music was muddier, its pace slower, its pall heavier" than in Don't Ask, Don't Tells predecessor, 1992's 11:11.[3] In its review of the album, Musician magazine described Come as "a revelation",[4] going on to state that the guitars of Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek "intertwine portentous conversations like birds on barbed wire."[5] 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."[6] Melody Makers review of the album characterized it as "one of the chilliest records you’ll ever hear"[7] 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,"[8] 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."[9]
References
- ^ "Kulkarni, Neil, "A New Nineties - Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear", The Quietus". January 17, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
- ^ SPIN, December 1994.
- ^ Buckley, Peter (Ed.), The Rough Guide to Rock, p. 221.
- ^ Musician magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52.
- ^ Musician magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52.
- ^ Musician magazine, Issues 195-199, 1995, p. 52.
- ^ ""Love Comes in Spurts", Melody Maker". 1994. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ ""Love Comes in Spurts", Melody Maker". 1994. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ^ The New York Times December 13, 1994, p. 18.