Fourth of July
The opener and single from their last album.
Galaxie 500, from This Is Our Music (1990)
- Written by
- Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang
- Released
- September 1990
- Length
- 5:35
- Album
- This Is Our Music
The first song on This Is Our Music was also its single, released in September 1990 on Rough Trade with Here She Comes Now, by Reed, Cale and Morrison, as the 12-inch B-side. Sergio Huidor directed a promotional video. Wareham counted it, with Listen, the Snow Is Falling and Hearing Voices, as vintage Galaxie 500. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork found it funny. Karen Schoemer, who named it her favorite in the oral history Temperature's Rising, heard a liquid rhythm and a song about apathy and inertia, of being alienated from the action. Pitchfork ranked it number 175 on its list of the 250 best songs of the 1990s.
A live version of 5:01 is on Copenhagen, and a video mix is on Uncollected Noise New York.
More songs by Galaxie 500
Tugboat, Blue Thunder, Strange, Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
Sources
- This Is Our Music (Galaxie 500 album), Wikipedia
- Fourth of July single, Discogs
- Copenhagen, Discogs
- Galaxie 500 announce archival album, unearth new songs, Pitchfork (2024-07-10)
- Temperature's Rising: Galaxie 500, an oral history, Pitchfork (2010-05-02)
- Today, On Fire, This Is Our Music, Pitchfork (2010-03-30)
- Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July, Internet Archive