Love Tara is the first full-length album

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 by Canadian

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 indie

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 band Eric's Trip

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This was their first release on Seattle's

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 Sub Pop

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 record label, their second not independently released. This was the first time a Canadian band was signed to Sub-Pop. Self-recorded in three months, it embodied Sub-Pop's shift to lighter, more melodic music. Though the lo-fi quality of the record threw many listeners and critics off, it was still very well received in both Canada and the United States

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In Chart

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's Top 50 Canadian Albums of All Time polls, Love Tara ranked 35th in 1996 and 37th in 2000. It was also ranked 39th in Bob Mersereau

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's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums

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Influence on other musicians

Sloan

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 have covered the song "Stove" from this album. Their version, which appeared on the 1993 compilation album DGC Rarities Volume 1

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, combined "Stove" into a medley with "Smother", a non-album track that Eric's Trip recorded for the Never Mind the Molluscs

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The title of the album was referenced in The Tragically Hip

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's song "Put It Off", from their 1996 album Trouble at the Henhouse

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: "I played Love Tara/by Eric's Trip/on the day that you were born".

Track listing

1. "Behind the Garage" – 3:13
2. "Anytime You Want" – 1:19
3. "Stove" – 2:54
4. "Follow" – 2:37
5. "Secret for Julie" – 2:50
6. "Belly" – 3:18
7. "Sunlight" – 3:22
8. "June" – 1:14
9. "To Know Them" – 1:07
10. "Spring" – 3:00
11. "Frame" – 2:10
12. "May 11" – 1:18
13. "My Room" – 2:40
14. "Blinded" – 3:56
15. "Allergic to Love" – 2:02