Welcome To the Minority: The A+M Years 1988-1991 [PA] [Digipak] [Limited]

Performer: Soul Asylum
Engineer: Stephen Immerwahr; Mike McMackin; Gary Long; Danny Mormando; Paul Hamingson; Andrew Vastola
Producer: Lenny Kaye; George Drakoulias; Steve Jordan; Tom Herbers; Ed Stasium
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Soul Asylum: Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner (guitar); Karl Mueller (bass guitar); Grant Young (drums). Additional personnel: Bernie Worrell (melodica). Though the Minneapolis pre-grunge outfit Soul Asylum finally achieved success with their 1992 Columbia album GRAVE DANCER'S UNION, they had built up a considerable underground following in the previous eight years since their formation. This best-of features the two late-1980s albums the band recorded for A&M, as well as various outtakes and two searing live 1990 shows from Chicago and Ann Arbor. It's a nice document of a forgotten era in alternative music, and a band that played a notable role it what made it so special.

The members of Minneapolis-based Soul Asylum started playing together in the early 1980s, their first album seeing the light of day in '84. Their punk-inspired sound was hard-edged, but full of inventive melodic ideas and unusual song structures. Led by in-your-face frontman Dave Pirner, the hard-working band eventually broke through to the mainstream with their 1993 hit "Runaway Train." The band went on hiatus after 1998's CANDY FROM A STRANGER, with Pirner releasing a solo album, but they began performing together again in 2002.

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