that dog. - retreat from the sun (GBG deluxe edition)

THAT DOG

retreat from the sun

(GBG deluxe edition)

Original release: DGC/Geffen Records (1997)

• 13 original album tracks
• 25 (!) bonus tracks
• 7 bonus videos
• image gallery 
• additional multimedia

File size:  
part 1: 137.25 MB (RAR bundle): music files, image gallery, additional multimedia
part 2: 125.64 MB (RAR bundle): video files

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PART TWO
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tracklisting

01 i'm gonna see you
02 never say never
03 being with you
04 gagged and tied
05 retreat from the sun
06 minneapolis
07 annie
08 every time i try
09 long island
10 hawthorne
11 did you ever
12 cowboy hat
13 until the day i die

non-lp bonus tracks

14 fuck you  

15 little miss riding hood 

 16 gagged and tied (alternate mix) 
  

kcrw morning becomes eclectic interview and performance with chris douridas 1997:

17 never say never 

 18 kcrw interview (part 1) 

19 retreat from the sun  

20 kcrw interview (part 2) 

21 i'm gonna see you

22 kcrw interview (part 3) 

 23 being with you
 

k-rock 92.3 new york interview and performance with jake fogelnest:

 24 k-rock interview (part 1) 

25 never say never

 26 k-rock interview (part 2)  

27 being with you
  

28 hawthorne (live at spaceland) 

the go-go's featuring anna waronker:

29 head over heels (live at the petra haden benefit)
  

ze malibu kids (featuring anna waronker lead vocals):

30 you're so vain

31 sleep therapy (from the film sugar town)

32  shelly fabares 

33  don't go

34  i won't forget you

35 my christmas was in june 

rachel haden solo

37 poems, prayers, and promises 

 

petra haden solo

38 god only knows

38 ordinary girl 

(theme to the television show 'clueless')

written by anna waronker/charlotte caffey

 performed by china forbes

 

bonus videos
never say never (promo video)
mtv's 120 minutes interview (with matt pinfield)
much music interview (segment #1)
much music interview (segment #2)
mtv's house of style (with pat smear)
never say never  (oddville mtv performance)
fuck you  (spincyclemedia video recreation)

The third feature in a series of 4 by the Los Angeles based group that dog, and another in my line of 'albums that should get the bonus track and extras laden deluxe edition treatment but probably never will so I did it myself anyways' series, I give you Retreat From The Sun (GBG Deluxe Edition).

In 1997, that dog returned for their third album, Retreat From The Sun, a pop masterpiece of epic proportions, and while the band's name is still not capitalized on the cover, the band itself is all grown up. The backstory: Retreat From The Sun began life as a proposed solo album for lead singer/primary songwriter Anna Waronker. After the relative disappointment of the performance of 1995's Totally Crushed Out! and the exhaustion that came with the promotion and touring for that record, Waronker was ready to take a small break from the band, and the fruits of her most recent songwriting sessions had been sounding much more pop-oriented than what that dog had been known for. It was Luke Wood, her A&R rep at Geffen Records, who convinced her to try recording the material with the band instead. While initially bashful at showing the rest of the group songs that to her, sounded like 'show tunes', she found that they were incredibly enthusiastic in proceeding in this new direction. Additionally, an outside producer, Brad Wood (who had produced records by Liz Phair and Ben Lee) was brought in to co-produce the entire record with band. With the exception of a couple of tracks off their second album Totally Crushed Out!, this was a first for the group, who in the past had done most of their recording with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley.

The mixture of Waronker's finely crafted songs with Brad Wood's polished sheen yielded what is certainly the most cohesive album of that dog's career.  The album gently begins with "I'm Gonna See You", a 'love letter to the band' according to Waronker, that touches on the touring life and leaving loved ones behind for the duration. Next up is "Never Say Never": a shimmering combo of synthey new wave chords and crunchy guitar sounds propelled forward by a hook that wont stop, a violin solo way cooler than any guitar part could ever be, and guest synthesizer courtesy of singer Anna Waronker's future sister-in-law, Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's. "Gagged and Tied" is a sexy collaboration with S&M overtones between Waronker's then-boyfriend, future husband and Redd Kross bassist Steven McDonald, who wrote the lyrics to a full-band composed tune. Pillow talk, but this ain't your Rock and Doris kind. Title track and album centerpiece "Retreat From The Sun" is propelled forward by doot-doots, surf guitar, hand claps and lalalalalas brilliantly masking the lyrical content which appears to be about extreme depression. Fan favorite tune "Minneapolis" contains the quintessential girl in band-likes-boy in band rhyming couplet: "So we'd said we'd write or call, cuz i'll be touring in the fall..." and could very well have fit nicely on previous concept album Totally Crushed Out! due to it's subject matter. Charlotte Caffey makes another guest appearance here, this time playing guitar. (For those curious about the song and some names mentioned: 'The Jabberjaw' is the name of the tiny coffeehouse all-ages venue where that dog played their very first show and the Randy mentioned in the song is none other than Randy Kaye, long-time L.A. punk rock scenester, A&R rep for Slash/Warner Bros. Records and habitual Jabberjaw regular.  (Rest in piece, Randy.  You are missed!) "Long Island" also could have thematically fit on Totally Crushed Out! and in fact was actually titled "Totally Crushed Out!" before being changed at the last minute to avoid confusion.

Three Non-LP studio outtakes from the sessions with Brad Wood are included here as bonus tracks: "Fuck You", from the Japanese edition of Retreat which pears to be a 'fuck you' (both figuratively and literally) to DGC, their record label at the time (making it no surprise as to why it wasn't made more widely available); "Little Miss Riding Hood", a b-side from the "Never Say Never" promo single; and an unreleased alternate 'violin' mix of "Gagged and Tied", which got shelved in favor of the album version.

Tracks 17-23 come from an appearance the band made on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic on April 8, 1997. While the interview segments are a bit rushed, host Chris Douridas is charming as ever and playfully interviews the band between songs in their on air set which includes "Never Say Never", "Retreat From The Sun", "I'm Gonna See You" and "Being With You". Following that (tracks 24-27) the band is interviewed on WXRK 92.3 FM New York (or K-ROCK as they were known) by SquirtTV star Jake Fogelnest, and the band performs "Never Say Never" and "Being With You", while a rendition of the song "Hawthorne", written by Waronker after visiting the hometown of beau Steve McDonald, and recorded live at Spaceland in Silverlake on December 23, 1996, follows.

While the decision to record the songs originally conceived of as a solo effort at first appeared amicable amongst the band members, it ultimately made everyone unhappy, and greatly added to the inner turmoil the band had already been experiencing. In late 1997, after the promotional and touring duties for Retreat had been completed, singer Anna Waronker called the other members from Europe (where she was traveling with boyfriend Steve McDonald) and anounced she was leaving the group, putting that dog to sleep for good. Waronker would, however, remain on good terms with most of her former bandmates, even performing at a benefit for Petra Haden in late 2000, joining a Belinda Carlisle-less Go-Go's on stage for a rendition of their hit "Head Over Heels" (track #29). (The insurance-less Haden had been hit by a car earlier in the year, and the benefit was to raise money for Petra's medical and rehabilitation fees incurred.)

The first post-That Dog Waronker songs that would make their way to consumer ears would be as part of the supergroup Ze Malibu Kids which consisted of Waronker, her husband Steve McDonald and his brother Jeff (both from the band Redd Kross), as well as Astrid McDonald, Jeff's ten-year old daughter with the Go-Go's Charlotte Caffey. Although originally credited to just Anna Waronker, the first taste of Ze Malibu Kids came in the form of a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" in 1998 via a Scandinavian Polygram Music Publishing compilation called Chartbusters: 20-I-Toppar, which featured contemporary artists and their renditions of classic from the Polygram Music Publishing catalog. The following year, the Jeff McDonald-penned "Sleep Therapy" featuring vocals by Waronker found it's way into the Allison Anders film Sugar Town (which also featured a small acting part by McDonald). Not counting a free download release of the Waronker sung "My Christmas Was In June" via Redd Kross's official website just prior, The first official release as Ze Malibu Kids was the double A-sided single "I Won't Forget You"/"Your Bed" in 2001. A full-length album Sound It Out followed in 2002 which included both A-sides of the single; the previously mentioned "You're So Vain" and "Sleep Therapy"; as well as new Waronker-penned and sung songs "Shelly Fabares" and "Don't Go". In 2002, Waronker issued her debut solo album Anna By Anna Waronker on her and Charlotte Caffey's own label Five Foot Two Records and her long-delayed second solo offering California Fade is finally set for release later in 2010. She (along with frequent collaborator Caffey) composed the music for Lovelace: A Rock Opera, a musical based on the life of porn star Linda 'Deep Throat' Lovelace, and has become in high demand for her work in writing and composing music for television and films, a field that that dog drummer Tony Maxwell has also seen some success in, working as a composer/music consultant for the films Star Maps (1997), Chuck & Buck (2000) and The Good Girl (2002).

Following the demise of That Dog, bassist Rachel Haden focused on performing with other artists including The Martinis, Jimmy Eat World, The Rentals and Todd Rundgren, and appeared on recordings by Ozma, Dntel, Lucky Pierre, Fightstar, Neil Hamburger and Asian Kung-Fu Generation. As a solo artist, she contributed a strikingly beautiful cover of "Poems, Prayers and Promises" to Take Me Home: A Tribute To John Denver on Badman Recordings in 1999 and continues to work on a collection of solo demos. Currently, she is playing bass and singing back-up vocals for long-time inspiration and Dead Can Dance member Brendan Perry on his 2010 Ark tour.

Meanwhile, Petra Haden (here represented with her solo acapella rendition of the Beach Boys classic "God Only Knows"), probably the most prolific of former That Dog members, has not only appeared on recordings by The Twilight Singers, Beck, Mike Watt, Luscious Jackson, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Victoria Williams, Tegan & Sara, Yuka Honda and The Gutter Twins, but has also released 2 solo albums (Imaginaryland in 1999 and Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out in 2005), 2 albums with Miss Murgatroid (Bella Neurox in 1999 and Hearts & Daggers in 2008), a collaboration with Bill Frisell (Petra Haden & Bill Frisell, 2003) and a collaboration with Woody Jackson (Ten Years, 2008). She is currently working as vocal coach/arranger for the upcoming NBC acapella reality tv show, Sing Off, scheduled to air in December.

As a bonus, i've included "Ordinary Girl", the theme to the television series Clueless and an early collaboration between Waronker and Charlotte Caffey. Here it is performed by China Forbes (in an extended arrangement from the original single release), but it very well could have been performed by that dog. When the song had been accepted as the theme to the show, Paramount executives offered Waronker the chance to record the song with her band. Waronker declined the offer, but a quick listen to the song and one can imagine the band performing it.

that dog. - totally crushed out! (GBG deluxe edition)

THAT DOG
totally crushed out.
(GBG deluxe edition)
Original release: DGC/Geffen Records (1995)

• 13 original album tracks
• 16 bonus tracks
• 4 bonus videos
• image gallery 
• additional multimedia

File size: 196.48 MB (RAR bundle)

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All music files are in the MP3 format, most encoded at 192kbps.
Videos are in the MP4 format.
You must have necessary codecs installed to play these files.

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tracklisting
01 ms. wrong
02 silently
03 in the back of my mind
04 he's kissing christian
05 anymore
06 to keep me
07 lip gloss
08 she doesn't know how
09 holidays
10 side part
11 one summer night
12 michael jordan
13 rockstar

non-lp bonus tracks
14 ridiculous
15 explain
16 we must bleed
17 midnight at the oasis
18 silently (acoustic)

featuring special guest beck on banjo
19 one summer night 

(alternate version)
20 laverne & shirley theme 

(live in milwaukee 1996)
21 you'll do it again  

(live in milwaukee 1996)
22 adam in june

performed by june blake
23 steve threw up  

performed by beck with members of that dog.
24 piss-bottle man 

performed by mike watt with evan dando and members of that dog.
25 i just threw out the love of my dreams

performed by weezer (featuring rachel haden)
26 friends of p.

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden)
27 move on

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden and rachel haden)
28 waiting

performed by the rentals (featuring petra haden)
29 totally crushed out!

(later titled 'long island')

bonus videos
he's kissing christian (promo video)
ms. wrong (spincyclemedia photoshow)
friends of p. (promo video)
waiting (promo video)

we hope you enjoy some highlights of this fine compilation below.  
however, when you're done, don't forget to scroll down for more info on the songs you have heard.  thanks

 

The second in a four-part that dog. series:  I present you with that dog's second album Totally Crushed Out!, given ye olde GBG (GrrlBandGeek) Deluxe Edition treatment - 13 original album tracks, 16 bonus tracks, 4 videos, loads of high quality album artwork scans, band photos, magazine articles, and much much more.  (Well, not really much more than that, but I think that should be enough to entice the canine lovers among you.)

Let's get right into it:  the original release of that dog.'s second album Totally Crushed Out! dropped on July 18, 1995 on Geffen Records and was a somewhat schizophonic affair being stuck somewhere between the neo twee-punk sound of their debut and the uber-polished power pop of their third, and final album, 1997's Retreat From The Sun.  While some numbers such as "Anymore" and "Side Part" certainly evoke the quiet simplicity of their debut release, they fall short of those songs quality, leaving the impression that some of Totally Crushed Out! is comprised of cast-offs from the first album sessions.  Of these type songs, only "Holidays" and the haunting "She Doesn't Know How" are worthy successors to the bands earlier work.

Luckily for the listener, the band decided to move beyond their comfort zone on TCO! which result in the treasures of this release.  The youthful punk rock zest only glimpsed in previous songs like "Old Timer" are given full reign in songs like "Lip Gloss" and "One Summer Night", two key tracks which pump some  much-needed life into this release right when needed most.  And then anchoring the album are three of the band's finest songs:  the one-two punch of should-of been a single album opener "Ms. Wrong" and "Silently" and first single "He's Kissing Christian".  It's interesting to note that these three songs are the first attempt by the band to work with a larger, more established producer (in the case of "Ms. Wrong" and "He's Kissing Christian", it was red-hot at-the-time Green Day producer Rob Cavallo) and their experimentation fully pays off yelding something that would go on to form the template sound of their third album Retreat From The Sun.

Onward to the bonus tracks:  First up is "Ridiculous", the shortest song in that dog's repertoire clocking in at one minute and seven seconds from the now ultra-rare 1995 WIN Records compilation album The Poop Alley Tapes: A Compilation of 31 Los Angeles Bands.  Poop Alley was an integral part of the early that dog sound, as most of those recordings were made at the studio with Waldo The Dog Faced Boy member/Poop Alley owner Tom Grimley behind the console.  "Explain" was recorded in late 1994 for the Jabberjaw - Good To The Last Drop benefit compilation on Mammoth Records when original selection for that release ("This Boy") had been tacked onto the end of that dog's debut album at the last minute instead.  (Jabberjaw was a coffee-house/art gallery/all ages venue in Los Angeles where that dog played their very first show - the compilation was produced to raise money to assist the club with their expenses to stay open - unfortunately the club closed it's doors in 1997.)  "Explain" is also one of only a few that dog songs that singer Anna Waronker does not sing lead on - here violinist Petra Haden takes center stage for a change.

In 1994 original Germs guitarist and Nirvana/Foo Fighters member Pat Smear befriended That Dog after seeing them open for Beck at the Troubadour.  So enamored of singer Anna Waronker's songwriting ability and craftsmanship he asked her to produce his next solo album.  With the rest of that dog backing him up, Pat and company (or 'Pat Dog', as they semi-jokingly called the band) recorded six songs which for whatever reason were shelved and still have not surfaced to this day. Most likely, "We Must Bleed", from the Germs tribute compilation Lion's Share: A Small Circle Of Friends date from around this time if not these sessions.  That Dog perform the song to the tune of their own "Old Timer", whose chorus melody does bear a striking similarity to the original Germs track. 

"Midnight At The Oasis" was a cover of the 1974 Maria Muldaur hit, taken from the 1995 benefit compilation album Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice. Spirit of '73: Rock For Choice was put together by the activist group Feminist Majority with proceeds going to support the Becky Bell/Rosie Jimenez Campaign "to lift consent laws and federal funding restrictions that are forcing young women to turn to back-alley abortions". The compilation's title is inspired by the Janu+ry 22, 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States and the songs included are all contemporary artists of 1995 covering songs that were popular in the early 1970s.  The band also had a more personal reason for covering the song:  singer Anna Waronker's father Lenny Waronker had produced the original, so this in a way was a tribute to her Dad.

Good band-friend Beck plays banjo on the acoustic version of "Silently" included here, a song that was released as a b-side to the promo single of "Never Say Never" in 1997.  An uncredited Beck actually wrote the banjo part he plays in this song, which would later be 'sung' live and on the album version by violinist Petra Haden, an expert at mimicking the sound of certain instruments with only her voice. (Originally the track was to be published as a Beck Hansen/Anna Waronker co-write, but Beck declined credit on the tune, possibly as a gift to his longtime friends and sometimes back-up band.)  That Dog returned the favor on "Steve Threw Up",  a Beck single released via Bong Load Custom Records in 1994 that featured Anna on bass, Rachel on drums and Petra on fiddle on vocals.

TCO!'s song "One Summer Night" bears the distinction of having been recorded and released in some manner three different times, more than any other that dog song.  The first time it was recorded  was for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio in January of 1993 (aired: December 1993 - and can be found on the deluxe edition of that dog.'s debut album here), while the second version (which is denoted here as the 'Alternate Version') was recorded with Tom Grimley at Poop Alley Studios in late 1993 specifically for Volume 9, a periodically released U.K. magazine/compilation CD.  This version bears a different  arrangement than the first or third/album version of the track (also included here), instead employing a more dancey drum beat and bass sound, with some nice breaks that bring out the charm of the song.  Fun fact: future SNL star and longtime band friend Maya Rudolph can be heard as one of the talking voices amidst the din heard towards the end of the song.

If you missed that dog live during their heyday, here's your chance to experience some of the joy:  two songs recorded on March 28, 1996 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Perhaps inspired by the city in which they were playing, the band does a wacky cover of  the theme to the Milwaukee-situated TV show Laverne & Shirley complete with the opening American-Yiddish hopscotch chant "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"  ("Schlimazel...what the hell does that mean?" Waronker asks the audience). "You'll Do It Again" - a rare unrecorded original That Dog song follows.

Rounding out the GBG deluxe edition bonus tracks, are some examples of That Dog members moonlighting: Anna Waronker tests the water as a solo artist under the pseudonym of June Blake on the song "Adam In June", also featured on The Poop Alley Tapes compilation from 1995.  (The song is featured here in an edited form.)  The band backs up Beck on the aforementioned "Steve Threw Up"; Anna, Rachel and Petra sing back-up vocals on Mike Watt's "Piss-Bottle Man"  (also featuring lead vocals by Lemonheads singer Evan Dando); Rachel performs guest lead vocals on the Weezer Pinkerton-era b-side "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams" and both Petra and Rachel contribute to Weezer bassist Matt Sharp's side project The Rentals' album Return Of The Rentals, here represented by Petra's appearance on violin and vocals on the singles "Friends of P." and "Waiting", and Rachel's harmony vocals on the album track "Move On".  (Also included in this package are the two Rentals promotional videos for "Friends Of P" and "Waiting" which both feature Petra prominently - the latter even including an extended stunt bike scene by Petra's character before she bursts into the studio to perform her violin solo and a cameo by Rachel as a production assistant at the beginning of the clip.  Great stuff!)

And the final bonus track for this set is, strangely enough, a song from the next that dog album 1997's Retreat From The Sun.  While the band was finishing up their second album, a popular phrase amongst the band was 'Totally Crushed Out!' due to rampant discussion about crushes that they all had on various people.  Inspired, singer Anna Waronker wrote a song called "Totally Crushed Out!", which the band quickly decided would also make a great album title as well.  The problem?  Well, the song was written too late to be recorded for the release, as all final tracking sessions for the album had been completed.  Undeterred, the band decided to move forward with naming the album Totally Crushed Out!, figuring they would be in good company with bands like The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Queen, who all had albums named for songs that would appear on a later album (Waiting For The Sun, Houses Of The Holy and Sheer Heart Attack, respectively).  It wasn't until after the song had been recorded for their next album Retreat From The Sun, that the band decided to change the official title of the song to "Long Island" at the last minute to avoid any confusion.  Fun facts!

Next up:  that dog decides to Retreat From The Sun ...

that dog. - the self-titled debut album (GBG deluxe edition)

THAT DOG

the self-titled debut album

(GBG Deluxe Edition)

• 15 original album tracks
• 19 bonus tracks
• 3 bonus videos 
• image gallery
• additional multimedia

File size: 195.56 MB (RAR bundle)

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All music files are in the MP3 format, most encoded at 192kbps.

Videos are in the MP4 format.

You must have necessary codecs installed to play these files.

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tracklisting

01 old timer.
02 jump.
03 raina.
04 you are here.
05 just like me.
06 she.
07 angel.
08 westside angst.
09 she looks at me.
10 punk rock girl.
11 zodiac.
12 family functions.
13 she looks at me (reprise).
14 paid programming.
15 this boy.

bonus tracks

16 buy me flowers.
17 untitled.
18 grunge couple.
19 i invented a head.
20 campfire.
21 sit on the floor (peel session).
22 one summer night (peel session).
23 grunge couple (live).
24 old timer (original 7" version).
25 raina (original 7" version).
26 she (original 7" version).
27 westside angst (original 7" version).
28 angel  (original 7" rip).
29 jump  (original 7" rip).
30 paid programming  (original 7" rip).
31 she looks at me.

performed by matt sharp
32 angel.

performed by waldo the dog faced boy
33 cherry llama.

performed by salamander
34 hand glides.

performed by salamander

videos

old timer. (promo video)

you are here. (SpinCycleMedia photo show)

paid programming. (SpinCycleMedia photo show)

In a continuing line of albums that I believe should get the expanded bonus deluxe edition treatment, but never will, I give you that dog. - the self-titled debut album (grrlbandgeek deluxe edition).

That Dog (or that dog. as they styled themselves upon arrival) were an L.A. pop band active from 1992-1998 that featured Anna Waronker (daughter of record mogul Lenny Waronker), Rachel and Petra Haden (two of jazz bassist Charlie Haden's triplet daughters) and Tony Maxwell on drums. They gathered alot of buzz upon their debut given their high-profile pedigrees, but it was their unique sound, centered around Waronker's simple pop meanderings backed by the Haden sisters pitch-perfect harmonies that really got the conversation started. Someone once called them a punk-rock Roches, and for this record anyways, I can't think of a better description. Their first release - a double 7" single on the Hawthorne based Magnatone Records - quickly became the buzz record of the moment generating lots of airplay on local college stations KXLU and KCRW. The latters Chris Douridas, host of Morning Becomes Eclectic brought the band to the attention of DGC/Geffen Records, who immediately began wooing the baby band with a deal.

Just as the band was about to sign with Geffen, they got word that Ivo Watts-Russell, the head of 4AD International had heard the group's single on the John Peel Sessions show on BBC Radio and was also keen to ink the band. This presented a serious dilemma for the band - 4AD had been one of the most important labels to the band members growing up, but they had already preliminarily entered into a contract with Geffen. What to do? In a unique tale of record label collaboration, Geffen agreed to allow the first album to be released by Guernica (an imprint of 4AD) in the territories outside of North America, while DGC would release it within the States through the alternative distribution channel RED. This allowed for two separate releases of the same record, with two different artwork designs in early 1994. The Guernica/4AD release featured a design that was beautiful and sleek in line with much of the other 4AD packages of the time, while the DGC release featured basically the same artwork as used by the band on their debut single (albeit in an expanded capacity). The record itself was pretty much a re-issue of their debut single, with some additional songs thrown on for good measure. The songs "Raina", "She" and "Old Timer" which had all appeared on the debut single had been re-recorded, while "Westside Angst" had been slightly edited (the dialing sound at the beginning of the song was cut). The songs "Jump", "Angel", and "Paid Programming" all appear on the album as they had initially appeared on wax. (All of the songs from the debut single are included here as bonus tracks - forgive the quality - they were mastered from the original test pressing which wasn't in the best shape.)

One impetus for getting the Guernica release was the additional 7" single that came with the vinyl edition of the album. The two songs featured on it "Buy Me Flowers" b/w "Untitled" (both included here as bonus tracks) are quite rare and showcase the early sound of the band. "Grunge Couple" was another early song that just missed being put on the record, so it was instead assigned for release on the 1994 compilation DGC Rarities, Vol. 1. The band later released this version (the studio version) of the song on a 7" single b/w "I Invented A Head" that was only sold at shows. "I Invented A Head" and a live version of "Grunge Couple" (also included here) were also featured on the "Old Timer" promo single that was sent to radio in late 1994. Also in late 1994 came the split 10" with Waldo The Dog Faced Boy, which featured that dog covering Waldo's "Campfire" on one side (#20) with them returning the favor on the reverse side with a cover of the that dog song "Angel" (#32).While that dog's cover tends to be more straight forward, Waldo The Dog Faced Boy's rendition is more of a mash-up with their own original song turning it into an 8-minute long opus.

"Sit On The Floor" (#21) and "One Summer Night" (#22) both hail from a John Peel Session for BBC Radio, recorded in January of 1993 but not aired until December of that year. ("One Summer Night" did well enough to chart at #26 in John Peel's Festive Fifty list for the year of 1994. The band would go on the re-record this song twice - once for the CD compilation Volume 9 in 1994 and then again for their second album Totally Crushed Out! in 1995.)

When asked who their favorite band in L.A. was in 1993 just prior to signing their record deal, Weezer unanimously answered "That Dog". Track 31 is a cover of "She Looks At Me" by Weezer bassist/Rentals leader Matt Sharp, recorded in early 1994. At the time Sharp was putting together a band called "That's Incredible!" that also featured Rachel Haden on vocals. (That's Incredible would eventually become the The Rentals - albeit with less involvement from Haden who was committed to That Dog's recording and touring schedule at the time.) His take on "She Looks at Me" is a genuine and heartfelt take on the innocent love song.

Rounding out the bonus tracks here are two songs from Salamander, a band that featured Rachel & Petra Haden along with Scott & Sean Wheatley, Evan Hartzell and Haden triplet sister Tanya on cello and existed (at least initially) simultaneously with that dog. When That Dog got signed to DGC/Geffen Records in 1993, they unfortunately had to leave the group to devote more time to that band, signaling the demise of Salamander as a group. The two tracks here: "Cherry Llama" and "Hand Glides" clearly show the early 4AD influence on the girls who both cited such bands as Lush and the Cocteau Twins as inspirations.

Next up: the GBG Deluxe Edition treatment of the second That Dog album Totally Crushed Out!...