Web in Front
| "Web In Front" | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Archers of Loaf | |||||
| from the album Icky Mettle | |||||
| Recorded | February 1993 | ||||
| Genre | Indie rock | ||||
| Label | Alias | ||||
| Icky Mettle track listing | |||||
| |||||
Web In Front is a song by Archers of Loaf, originally released as a 7" single on Alias Records. It was their first release on the Alias label, and their first single from their debut album Icky Mettle.[1][2] The original single also included the tracks "Bathroom" and "Tatayana".[3]
Impact
"Web in Front" launched Icky Mettle to high-ranking positions on the college charts, including #18 on the CMJ New Music Report Top 150.[4] The single was played regularly on both college radio and MTV,[1] and its music video was featured in an episode of Beavis & Butthead.[4]
Critical reception
When "Web In Front" was originally released, music critics often compared it to Pavement and Superchunk.[2] For example, Charles Aaron wrote in Spin that the song was "...a less fettered and more frolicsome rewrite of Pavement's "From Now On" (from Perfect Sound Forever).[3]
Retrospective
In a 2000 review of Seconds Before the Accident, Pete Nicholson described "Web In Front" as a "pop classic".[5] In 2012, Pitchfork Media's Matt LeMay wrote that "..."Web in Front" is quite simply among the finest indie rock songs ever written. That a song whose lyrics are all but impossible to parse literally comes off as so immediate and relatable speaks both to Bachmann's skill with words-as-sounds, and to his bandmates' ability to put force and nuance behind his voice."[6] Also in 2012, Pitchfork's Paul Thompson wrote that the song "...isn't just their finest song, it's their defining moment, their rocket-shot into the canon."[7]
Pitchfork ranked the song as the 77th best track of the 1990s in a 2010 list.[8]
Track listing
- Web In Front
- Bathroom
- Tatayana
References
- ^ a b Archers of Loaf. 2004. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
{{cite encyclopedia}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ a b Buckley, Peter (2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. p. 38. ISBN 9781843531050.
- ^ a b Aaron, Charles (August 1993). "Singles". Spin. SPIN Media LLC. p. 90.
- ^ a b Grady, Ross (April 1995). "Archers of Loaf". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. p. 17.
- ^ Nicholson, Pete (2000-06-30). "Archers of Loaf: Seconds Before the Accident Album Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ LeMay, Matt (2011-08-01). "Archers of Loaf: Icky Mettle Album Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ Thompson, Paul (2012-08-14). "Archers of Loaf: Reissues Album Review". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
- ^ "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 100-51". Pitchfork Media. 2010-09-01. Retrieved 2018-01-17.