release date: Jun. 13, 2000
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,52]
producer: Mark Kozelek
label: Badman Recording Co. - nationality: USA
Tracklist: 1. "Find Me, Ruben Olivares" (4 / 5) - 2. "Rock 'n' Roll Singer" (live) - 3. "You Ain't Got a Hold on Me" - 4. "Metropol 47" - 5. "Around and Around" - 6. "Bad Boy Boogie" - 7. "Ruth Marie"
Studio ep debut by Mark Kozelek released on Badman Recording Co. consisting of seven tracks of which three would later be issued on his full-length album debut What's Next to the Moon (2001). Together with Red House Painters, Kozelek had recorded the band's final album Old Ramon (rec. 1997-98), although, it wasn't released until 2001 as the band decided to split. So this is part of Kozelek's continued journey releasing some of his own songs; tracks #1, #4, and #7, and showing his interest in remodelling other people's songs into alt. folk and singer / songwriter style. Three of the cover songs (tracks #2, #3, and #6) are originally songs by the Australian heavy rock band AC/DC, and track #5 is credited John Denver.
In retrospect, this is typical Kozelek in the sense that his most haunting and beautiful songs are written by himself, whereas his cover versions are mere extravagant contributions.
