Major Nelson - Christmas With Major Nelson tape (1994)

Technically, I'm sharing this one on Xmas for purely superficial reasons. The title of this cassette album, Christmas With Major Nelson, is only printed on the spine of the tape sleeve, and that's literally the only mention of the holiday.  You won't find any traditional carols here, nor any original Christmas compositions, rather sixteen songs uniquely written and performed by the band in question, Major Nelson, whom from what I can tell took up residence in Charlotte, NC, and were responsible for handful of homegrown releases, this being the first.

So what might this quartet have in store for you?  Some good old-fashioned, distortion-prone indie rock is what, the kind championed by the likes of Buffalo Tom, Verbow and Lotion, though M/N don't throw down quite as much of a raucous.  Though a bit too nondescript for their own good at times, Major Nelson impress on this tape's more high-strung numbers like "No Home Outside This House," "Role Reversal" and "Everytime I Look Away." Nothing on here is going to make the world halt on it's axis, but these guys had a clue and deserved to be more renown than their meager indie status afforded them.

01. Connection
02. No Home Outside This House
03. Old Songs
04. Take Me Down
05. Role Reversal
06. Unforgiven
07. Letter to Paula
08. Tracy
09. Won't Be Back
10. Bars-n-Cars
11. How This Movie Ends
12. Late One Night
13. Rob Reiner
14. The Right Time
15. Everytime I Look Around
16. Dead End

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