Dig Archeology I 1980-1990

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The first in what became a three-volume series, Dig Archaeology collects hard-to-locate gems from Erik Lindgren's long and varied career, along with a handful of previously unreleased tracks. As the owner of Arf Arf records, Lindgren has a steady outlet for even his most experimental or wacky ideas (no Arf Arf compilation is complete without a couple of Lindgren tracks). However, Lindgren also seems to have a pretty good quality control judgment, so there's nothing too terribly self-indulgent or dull here. Most of this 23-track, 76-minute CD compiles tracks from a series of 7" singles and EPs, including the entirety of 1980's The Space Negros Go Commercial, a set of eight 30-second songs that predates the Residents' conceptually similar The Commercial Album, and several songs related to Lindgren's obsession with reworking '60s pop classics, from the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" to Graham Gouldman's "Heart Full of Soul." Other highlights include "Go Dorothy Go (Do the Bible)," a celebration of a real-life Ohio woman who hand-copied the King James Bible; a mutation of a 1954 field recording of a Batwa Pygmy chorus; and the Space Negros' wacked-out version of Flipper's "Sex Bomb," specially recorded for a marathon on the Cambridge college radio station WMBR, which, in 1983, played nothing but versions of that song for a full week. Dig Archaeology doesn't have the conceptual unity of other Space Negros albums, but it's a fun time. ~ Stewart Mason
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