This is Our Music

Galaxie 500 - This is Our Music
Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
1990 Ratings: #85 / 370
User Score
Based on 116 ratings
1990 Rank: #83
Liked by 14 people
January 1, 1990 / Release Date
LP / Format
Rough Trade / Label
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ThrowBackG
61

"I stayed home on the fourth of July
-and I closed the shades so I didn'thave to see the sky."

How can a line be melodramatic and mirrored all the same? God, I love this.

verniers
89

this isn't the catchiest stuff they made, but it is really the most thoughtful work galaxie 500 ever released

Doofy
72

This band have just the one sound - one that doesn’t sound as fresh as it did back in ‘89.

Really all their songs adhere to a similar framework - ok, some have longer instrumental sections. That’s it.

Still, their third and final album isn’t significantly weaker than what came before and it IS a great sound and a good ‘song’.

Boydove
53

Pretty mediocre

jhl
100

Me sitting passenger side of the Oscar Meyer Weenie Mobile Citca 1990. Wondering if there’s more to life.

vinylmeister
60

"This is Galaxie 500"

Okay, this is definitely better than their debut, even if it dips in the second half. There's a couple songs on here I love like "Fourth of July" and "Spook" but overall, this is just a pleasant, somewhat melancholic album to vibe to. I'd recommend this one to any shoegaze or dream pop fan.

Favorite Track: Spook
Least Favorite Track: Sorry

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Added on: May 13, 2013