Mic City Sons

Mic City Sons
Studio album by Heatmiser
Released	October 29, 1996 (US)
Genre	Alternative Rock Post-grunge
Label	Caroline
Producer	Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf and Heatmiser
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Heatmiser chronology
Cop and Speeder (1994) Mic City Sons (1996)

Mic City Sons is the third and final album by Heatmiser, released in 1996 on Caroline Records. Pitchfork.com ranked the album at #48 on their "Top Albums of the 90s" list (1999). [1]

This was the band's first recording for a major label; however, when individuals at Virgin Records learned the band might be on the verge of breaking up, the album was subsequently licensed for release through the smaller sister independent music label Caroline Records (also an EMI subsidiary) and their independent distributor of the same name.

The title of the album is taken from a line in the ninth track, "Pop in G".

Track listing

1. "Get Lucky" (Elliott Smith)
2. "Plainclothes Man" (Smith)
3. "Low-Flying Jets" (Neil Gust)
4. "Rest My Head Against The Wall" (Gust)
5. "The Fix Is In" (Smith)
6. "Eagle Eye" (Gust)
7. "Cruel Reminder" (Gust)
8. "You Gotta Move" (Smith)
9. "Pop in G" (Gust)
10. "Blue Highway" (Gust)
11. "See You Later" (Smith)
12. "Half Right" (hidden track) (Smith)

Note: The commercially-released album does not have individual songwriting credits, only noting "All songs written by Neil Gust or Elliott Smith." Advanced promotional copies of the CD included notes designating individual tracks written by either Gust or Smith, as noted above. Smith's official site notes that the promotional copies incorrectly attributed "Pop in G" to Smith when it was written by Gust.[2]

Credits

• Produced and recorded by Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf and Heatmiser, except "Rest My Head Against the Wall," mixed by Tony Lash.
• Songs published by Mirabunda Music (BMI).
• Personnel: Sam Coomes, Neil Gust, Tony Lash and Elliott Smith.
• Additional vocals on "Get Lucky" by Aaron Day.
• Backing vocals on "Cruel Reminder" by Sean Croghan.
• Mastered by Steve Marcussen at Precision Mastering.
• Packaging by Neil Gust.
• Inner photos by Neil Gust, Tony Lash and Storm Tharp.
• Solo versions of "See You Later" and "Half Right" were released on Smith's posthumous album New Moon.

External links

• Heatmiser full concert audio recording and video clip of "Dead Air" from November 21, 1992