![]() In 2002, the compilation Soft Rock was released, featuring nearly every song in the Lifter Puller catalogue, excluding their final album, Fiestas and Fiascos, and the songs "Prescription Sunglasses", "Emperor", "Slips Backwards," and "Bitchy Christmas," as well as the original version of "Nassau Colisseum," the b-side to the "Slips Backwards" single.Īfter several years out of print, all of the original Lifter Puller records were re-issued digitally with bonus tracks in December 2009. The band released three LPs and an EP before breaking up in the summer of 2000. ![]() Arguably, however, the band is most known for frontman Craig Finn's elaborate lyrics, which often relied upon an established universe of drug-addled coeds, cash-strapped nightclub proprietors, murdered ravers and other nostalgic excursions in Minneapolis and Boston. Their music is considered innovative, with its angular riffs and a synth-infused sound that predated the '80s revival fads of the early 2000s. Lifter Puller, or LFTR PLLR, was an American indie rock band from the Twin Cities and the Boston area between 19. ![]() There’s that great juxtaposition between the loud being really kind of loud, and the other parts being, you know… I wouldn’t say quiet, but more dynamic.Skene, No Alternative, Threatening Letters, Frenchkiss records, The Self-Starter Foundation I definitely think it’s a more dynamic record. The record itself is really, really good. **So it must be hugely gratifying for the record to come out. But that doesn’t make it any more fun or any easier. So in that way I think it was definitely, you know, helpful. ![]() I don’t think I would have been able to, like, sort of evolve, just as a person, had there not been that catalyst for some kind of change. And it took me a second to kind of figure that out. You kind of have to re-learn how to do things. It got to a place where I was finally able to have fun again. But after a while it’s something that you not just get used to, but that you start to enjoy more. Very difficult to not feel self-conscious and kind of uptight. But yeah, you know, like, there have been people that have come up to me and been like, “Oh man, I love your band, and blah blah blah and whatever, and anyone want to smoke some crack?” And I’m like, “Nope! That sounds like a fucking terrible idea, actually.”Īnd how have you felt, sober while onstage? Was it a new discovery? Has it been highly enjoyable? Yeah, there are certainly those moments where it’s like, “Yeah, I don’t know if you guys are really getting it….” But at the same time, too, I think it’s nice for everybody to kind of be able to have their own version of whatever it is. So when you’re doing “Constructive Summer” and the whole crowd screams out “GET HAMMERED!” are you like, “Wait, no, it’s not that simple!”? There’s a tinge of regret, sometimes there’s a bit of sadness when he’s looking back on that partying. Did that mindset ever feel a bit hypocritical? Because when Craig tells his stories, it’s sort of past the party. You’re too busy thinking about the drugs.Īnd you’re going through your own personal hell, you know? I’d never been onstage sober, you know? It’s like, How am I gonna do this? And how am I gonna do this in this band, with this group of guys that, you know, for us, this has always been party time? He’s just like, “I’ve got my career hinged to this fucking guy, and this is all that all of us have ever wanted to do, and he might be dead tomorrow.” At the time, that had never occurred to me, and it wasn’t until later and getting some perspective on it that I thought, Oh my God, that must have been fucking horrendous to have to go through. Yes, but I don’t think I knew it at the time. And it’s like, “Ugh, that guy!” To make a short story much longer, whatever issues there were with that record, I think we as a band were way more responsible for than anybody else.ĭid you ever feel that you were in danger of losing the band because of your drug problem? Until, like, ten minutes later, and then at home I’ll be like, “…Wait a minute!” He can tell you how to go fuck yourself and make you happy that you’re on your way. And Craig has this very unique way of telling you to go fuck yourself. You’ve heard the lyrics the guy writes, right? He’s really good with vocabulary. But at the same time, there isn’t anybody that can fucking get under my skin the way that guy can. I would fucking lie down on a track for that guy, all right? Without a question. Craig and I have known each other for over fifteen years, and we’ve been playing music together for as long. No, I mean, Craig and I aren’t really like that. I had this idea of what I thought that record should be, and I think Craig had one, and I don’t think either of those ever intersected or lined up. And I think that definitely took its toll on my relationship with Craig, both personally and creatively. But during the recording of it, I think I was not super reachable.
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