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Great Plains
Length of Growth 81-89
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Way She Runs a Fever - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
2. When Do You Say Hello? - The Great Plains,
3. Four Sides in Three Shapes - The Great Plains,
4. It's Dying - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
5. Pretty Dictionary - The Great Plains,
6. The Night Won't Live to See the Day - The Great Plains,
7. Confetti - The Great Plains,
8. Cave In - The Great Plains,
9. Lincoln Logs - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
10. I Must Have Made It All Up - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
11. Love to the Third Power - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
12. Rutherford B. Hayes - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
13. Black Sox Scandal/What Are You Living On - The Great Plains,
14. The Knotted One - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
15. Columbus Dispatch - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
16. Serpent Mound - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
17. When Honesty Gets Old - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
18. Death of a Thought Returns - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
19. Black Like Me - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
20. Old 3C - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
21. Town's Got a Widow - The Great Plains, Green, Robert David
22. Dick Clark - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
23. Last Chance to Be Free - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
Track Listings (27) - Disc #2
1. Letter to a Fanzine - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
2. Hall of Shame - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
3. Hamburger Boy - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
4. Origin of My Silly Grin - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
5. Fool That Set It Off - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
6. Animated Innocence - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
7. Time to Name the Dog - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
8. Fertile Crescent - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
9. Duet Between Buyer and Seller - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
10. Real Bad - The Great Plains, Green, Dave
11. Martin Luther King/Martin Luther Drinking - The Great Plains,
12. End of the Seventies - The Great Plains, Bruner, Bill
13. Appetite - The Great Plains,
14. Physical Fact - The Great Plains,
15. The Wind Blows, the Law Breaks - The Great Plains,
16. Authentic - The Great Plains,
17. Alfalfa Omega - The Great Plains,
18. Day Old - The Great Plains,
19. So Far - The Great Plains,
20. Directions to the Party - The Great Plains,
21. Before We Stop to Think - The Great Plains,
22. Violent Gesture - The Great Plains, Bruner, Bill
23. Visual Artists - The Great Plains,
24. Long and Slow Decline - The Great Plains,
25. Exercise - The Great Plains, Bruner, Bill
26. Same Moon - The Great Plains, Bruner, Bill
27. Standing at the Crosswords - The Great Plains,

CD Details

All Artists: Great Plains
Title: Length of Growth 81-89
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Old 3c Records
Original Release Date: 8/1/2000
Re-Release Date: 8/15/2000
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Today's Country, Hardcore & Punk, Country Rock
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 659657600226

CD Reviews

Great Ohio Roots-punk

John F. Howard | Arlington, VA United States | 08/23/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ron House, the leader of Great Plains, may be one of the most underrated geniuses of American music. Punk and literate, he is like a well adjusted David Thomas (Pere Ubu). Unfortunately his fame, such that it is, is confined to a small part of Ohio. Too bad, he writes smart, funny songs and has a knack for memorable melodies. He wraps the package in winningly simple and passionately played punk and post-punk rock.This collection has just about everything recorded by Great Plains and has a charming intro by Dr. Demento. All of the "hits" you remember from college radio circa 1987 are here. Letter to a Fanzine, Standing at the Crosswords, Martin Luther King and Matin Luther Drinking, etc. Lyrics are about sex, drinking and history. The music is rootsy punk with farfisa. House doesn't so much sing as declaim and cajole with amatuerish passion. As American as all get out."

Wish I had been there....

Frazer Dobson | Atlanta, GA United States | 03/13/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been looking for this a long time and didn't even know it. Sure, I grooved to "Letter to a Fanzine" back in the mid-80s, and heard "Standing at the Crosswords" later, but I had never been able to find any Great Plains anywhere. Now I'm in heaven, discovering new-old songs from a dead age, thanks to the Internet.That said, this is probably too much for the casual fan. If you're interested, I found a cassette copy of "Sum Things Up" on the Homestead/D.E.I. website, which hooked me into seeking out the cd. And the earlier tracks are pretty unpolished, not always in a good way, and lack the sense of melody that crept into later work. But if you have the patience, "Length of Growth" is a gold mine. It's been years since I happened on a tune as fine as "Dick Clark," and that's just the tip of the iceberg. So if you have a soft spot for witty cranky 80s college rock (as do I) spiked with cheesy keyboards, this is worth checking out (and fifty songs for $14--can't beat that!)."