(2021) The dB’s – I Thought You Wanted to Know: 1978-1981



Review:
The new label Propeller Sound release a 23-song compilation of rare and obscure early material from jangle-pop progenitors The dB’s, a collection that include remastered early singles, demos and live recordings. The new set pulls together material from the earliest days of The dB’s, after the original lineup of singer-songwriter/guitarists Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, bassist Gene Holder and drummer Will Rigby coalesced. Holsapple, in the announcement of the project, calls the music the “home and field recordings of the dB’s.” “I think that I Thought You Wanted to Know shows an important phase of the band, the stuff we were playing when we first got together in New York that we honed our sound on,” Holsapple said. “It was a great time to be young North Carolina transplants in a band in Manhattan, eyes wide open and charged with electric energy!” The compilation is the first in a projected series dB’s releases by Propeller Sound Recordings, a new label founded by former R.E.M. manager Jefferson Holt, who has a longtime association with The dB’s, and partner Jay Coyle. Holsapple adds: “We’re hoping to present the entire catalog of the band to the modern listening public in improved editions that will feature lots of extras, and in formats like vinyl. It’s important to us to make sure that The dB’s’ recorded body of work get an esthetically appealing treatment that reflects its validity decades after it was originally released.”



Track Listing:
01. (I Thought) You Wanted to Know
02. Black and White
03. Soul Kiss
04. Bad Reputation
05. If and When
06. The Fight
07. Nothing Is Wrong
08. Dynamite
09. We Should Be in Bed
10. Ash
11. You Got It Wrong
12. Everytime Anytime
13. Death Garage
14. What About that Cat?
15. Tell Me Two Times
16. What's the Matter with Me?
17. She's Green I'm Blue
18. Time Has Come Today
19. My Sire Wristwatch
20. Let's Live for Today
21. Tomorrow Never Knows
22. My Back Pages
23. Goin' to the Club


Media Report:
Genre: power-pop, rock
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits