Souvlaki (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Souvlaki
Type = Album
Artist = Slowdive


Released = Summer 1993 (U.K.)
Feb. 1994 (U.S.)
Recorded = Courtyard Studios, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
The White House Studios
Genre = Shoegazing, Dream pop
Length = 40:40
With bonus tracks: 57:00
Remaster: 1:29:44
Label = Creation Records
SBK/Creation (U.S.)
Producer = Chris Hufford
Martin Nichols
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3yd4vwvta9uk link]
* Pitchfork Media (9.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22324-just-for-a-day-souvlaki-pygmalion link]
Last album = "Just For a Day"
(1991)
This album = "Souvlaki"
(1993)
Next album = "Pygmalion"
(1995)
Misc = Singles
Name = Souvlaki
Type = album
single 1 = Alison
single 1 date = February 1994

"Souvlaki" is an album released in 1993 (see 1993 in music) by the British dream pop/shoegazing band Slowdive. Widely regarded as their best album, it benefits from synthesizer contributions from co-producer Brian Eno on "Sing" (which he co-wrote) and "Here She Comes." The album's U.S. release came in February 1994, with the previously unreleased cover of "Some Velvet Morning" (written by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in 1967) and three tracks from the band's 1993 "5" EP, comprising the four U.S. release bonus tracks.

According to interviews with the band, the album was titled after an explicit skit on the first album by telephone pranksters The Jerky Boys, containing the line: "My wife loves that Greek shit. She'll suck your cock like souvlaki." [From the liner notes of the 2006 re-release of the album]

Track listing

Original release

#"Alison" – 3:52
#"Machine Gun" – 4:28
#"40 Days" – 3:15
#"Sing" – 4:49
#"Here She Comes" – 2:21
#"Souvlaki Space Station" – 5:59
#"When the Sun Hits" – 4:47
#"Altogether" – 3:42
#"Melon Yellow" – 3:53
#"Dagger" – 3:34
#"Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23*
#"Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08*
#"Missing You" – 4:15*
#"Country Rain" – 3:34*

* Bonus tracks not found on original UK release.

2006 Re-Release

"Souvlaki", along with the other Slowdive albums, was remastered and re-released in 2005/2006. The first disc's tracklist is identical to the original UK release.

Disc 2

#"Some Velvet Morning" – 3:23
#"So Tired" – 4:03
#"Moussaka Chaos" – 6:24
#"In Mind" – 3:45
#"Good Day Sunshine" – 5:08
#"Missing You" – 4:15
#"Country Rain" – 3:34
#"In Mind (Bandulu Mix)" – 8:06
#"In Mind (Reload Mix)" – 10:26

References