Sebadoh III

About this item

First album with Sebadoh as a trio and my favorite. Probably because it was the first one I heard.

In 1992, when I was 16 about to turn 17, i moved into a house at the corner of Walnut and Market Streets in Northampton. This being the early 1990’s in Northampton, no one had told the guys living there to move out, so we sort of moved in around them. They were always playing Sebadoh III, and in particular As The World Dies, The Eyes Of God Grow Bigger, which quickly grew on me.

Fast forward to later that summer, our house was dripping with hallucinogens, most of us had streaks of pink manic panic in our hair since there always seemed to be 3/4 used bottles of the stuff around, and some friends had given me a white kitten for my birthday.

As much as i love animals, when i saw how she glowed bright blue under the blacklight in my room and that all of our own hair was now neon orange under that same light, my infinite wisdom lead me to decide that dying my kitten would be the thing to do, and enlisted a couple of my friends that were over for the journey. She wasn’t pleased and i’m sure she’d had a long day, so she put up a fight and aquiesed. Right as we were finishing up her dye-job, the final symphony from As The World Dies came in to focus, with repeated screams of “blood on the walls, blood on the walls!”. To this day, when she hears even the first verse, my friend realizes its the “Blood on the walls song”.

My kitten turned out great by the way. For the rest of the summer, she got unlimited attention from visitors who marveled at a cute white kitten with pink splotched on her back, and then my mom adopted her and washed her five times in a row to get the manic panic out

How I got it

Signed by Lou at the Barlow General Store in Greenfield MA and by Eric at the Merigold Theater in Easthampton MA