Prairie School Freakout is the second (and first full-length) album by Chicago

Chicago

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-based band Eleventh Dream Day

Eleventh Dream Day

-History:The band was founded by guitarists Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean, who met at a place fondly known as 1069. This was a house/practice space/hang out in Louisville where at the time Janet was practicing with the band she was in with Tara Key and Tim Harris; the Zoo Directors. They...

, originally released on Amoeba Records in 1988. According to the original liner notes, the album "was recorded on a hot pollution alert day during July [1987] in Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

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, and was made at a place called Artist Recording Service. We recorded 15 songs between 11:00 pm and 5:00 am, half of the time spent trying to fix the wild buzz coming out of Rick's amp

Guitar amplifier

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. We finally gave up and decided to make amp buzz the theme of the record." The album was re-released and expanded in 2003 by Thrill Jockey

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Track listing

1. "Watching the Candles Burn" (Figi) – 4:01
2. "Sweet Smell" (Bean) – 4:37
3. "Coercion" (Bean) – 3:47
4. "Driving Song" (Figi) – 4:09
5. "Tarantula" (Rizzo) – 5:36
6. "Among the Pines" (Rizzo) – 6:24
7. "Through My Mouth" (McCombs) – 4:57
8. "Beach Miner" (Bean/Rizzo) – 3:42
9. "Death of Albert C. Sampson" (Bean) – 4:44
10. "Life on A String" (Rizzo) – 5:04

     

    Bonus tracks, from Wayne EP (1989)

11. "Tenth Leaving Train" (Rizzo) – 11:19
12. "Southern Pacific" (Neil Young
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    ) – 5:04
13. "Go" (Rizzo/Bean) – 4:50