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Uncle Tupelo
Released 1990

No Depression
02:20
810 plays

Whiskey Bottle
04:46
805 plays

Graveshift Yard
04:43
750 plays

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- 1
- Graveshift Yard
- 04:43
- 750 plays

- 2
- That Year
- 02:59
- 630 plays

- 3
- Before I Break
- 02:48
- 676 plays

- 4
- No Depression
- 02:20
- 810 plays

- 5
- Factory Belt
- 03:13
- 612 plays

- 6
- Whiskey Bottle
- 04:46
- 805 plays

- 7
- Outdone
- 02:48
- 538 plays

- 8
- Train
- 03:19
- 570 plays

- 9
- Life Worth Livin'
- 03:32
- 705 plays

- 10
- Flatness
- 02:58
- 539 plays

- 11
- So Called Friend
- 03:12
- 484 plays

- 12
- Screen Door
- 02:42
- 591 plays

- 13
- John Hardy
- 02:21
- 478 plays

album review

Uncle Tupelo's landmark opening salvo is the group's most rock-oriented album, steeped more in breakneck speed, punk crunch, and guitar dissonance than any of their subsequent efforts. Indeed, despite the presence of mandolins, fiddles, and banjos -- as well as inclusion of the title track, a faithful cover of the A.P. Carter classic -- the trio's vaunted country leanings are less musical than thematic on No Depression, thanks in large part to singers/songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy's acute depictions of rural, blue-collar life. Like the Replacements -- never more obvious an influence than on this LP -- Uncle Tupelo's songs paint grim, unrelenting portraits of aimless Midwestern existence, split between days working on the opening cut's "Factory Belt" and nights spent blurry-eyed and wasted ("Whiskey Bottle," "Before I Break"). Still, for all of the record's doleful cynicism -- virtually every cut nods toward dashed hopes, broken promises, and paralyzing fear -- there's an undeniable electricity afoot as well; by channeling the mournful clarity of country into the crackling fury of punk, No Depression brings new life to both musical camps. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide