Description
Plexi – Cheer Up / Sub Pop Audio CD 1996 / SPCD 360
UPC 098787036022
Cheer Up is the only studio album by Plexi, released on Sub Pop on October 8, 1996.
"Peel" was given a radically different 2nd half with lyrics, instead of the instrumental noise coda called "He" with which it had previously ended. After a few minutes of reverb-heavy, hypnotic droning about how "she can't stand her hair, she can't stand her face," "Peel" now had a chorus of, "She was gonna swing/ She was gonna swing from her neckbone..." "Bunny" is a 2-minute ambient segue apparently based on a sampled loop of an orchestra, with sounds of explosions in the distance; it concludes with a muffled, echoing scream of "We're gonna die..." Barragan handled the vocals on "56", a song said to be inspired by his love of numerology; the album's sleeve also had cryptic "23" artwork on it.
Label: Sub Pop – SPCD 360
Format: CD, Album
Released: 1996
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
Tracklist:
- "Forest Ranger" – 4:01
- "Dimension" – 2:25
- "Roller Rock Cam" – 3:08
- "Peel" – 5:02
- "Dayglo" – 3:09
- "Ordinary Things" – 4:01
- "Bunny" – 2:08
- "Change" – 2:58
- "Fourget" – 2:20
- "Mountains" – 3:01
- "Magnet" – 2:30
- "56" – 2:04
- "Star Star" – 3:58
Personnel
- Plexi
- Michael Angelos – vocals, bass
- Michael Barragan – guitar, noises, Minimoog, Rhodes 88, vocals on "56"
- Norm Block – drums, percussion
- Additional
- Melora Creager – cello on "Ordinary Things", "Star Star"
- Paul Roessler – keyboards on "Dayglo" and various other sounds
- Jonathan Poneman – executive producer
- Jeff Kleinsmith – art direction / design
- Robert Sebree, Derrick Ion – photography
