With The Ugly Organ, Cursive made a landmark album for itself and Saddle Cr… Read Full Bio ↴With The Ugly Organ, Cursive made a landmark album for itself and Saddle Creek.
The darkest days of the Bush Era were settling in like a dense fog over the entire country, and the outlook was bleak. That made The Ugly Organ especially potent, its gloomy inward focus a natural reflection of the era. The press accolades came quickly, from the mainstream (Rolling Stone called it “a brilliant leap forward,” and Entertainment Weekly said it “raised the Saddle Creek bar”) to the niche (The A.V. Club called it “a potent piece of rock art,” Alternative Press gave it a perfect score).
Just prior to The Ugly Organ, Saddle Creek had released the celebratory compilation Saddle Creek 50, which included Cursive’s gleefully self-referential “Nonsense” (“I really don’t want to write another ‘I’m a dick’ song again”), which is included on this reissue. The label’s 49th release had been another Cursive joint, the “Art is Hard” single, which featured the explosive six-minute B-side “Sinner’s Serenade,” also included here. Rounding it out are four songs from Cursive’s split EP with Eastern Youth, 8 Teeth to Eat You—check out the ferocious playing by cellist Gretta Cohn on “Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly, Feb 24, 1997”—and two songs from the single for “The Recluse.”
- Kyle Ryan, The A.V. Club
The darkest days of the Bush Era were settling in like a dense fog over the entire country, and the outlook was bleak. That made The Ugly Organ especially potent, its gloomy inward focus a natural reflection of the era. The press accolades came quickly, from the mainstream (Rolling Stone called it “a brilliant leap forward,” and Entertainment Weekly said it “raised the Saddle Creek bar”) to the niche (The A.V. Club called it “a potent piece of rock art,” Alternative Press gave it a perfect score).
Just prior to The Ugly Organ, Saddle Creek had released the celebratory compilation Saddle Creek 50, which included Cursive’s gleefully self-referential “Nonsense” (“I really don’t want to write another ‘I’m a dick’ song again”), which is included on this reissue. The label’s 49th release had been another Cursive joint, the “Art is Hard” single, which featured the explosive six-minute B-side “Sinner’s Serenade,” also included here. Rounding it out are four songs from Cursive’s split EP with Eastern Youth, 8 Teeth to Eat You—check out the ferocious playing by cellist Gretta Cohn on “Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly, Feb 24, 1997”—and two songs from the single for “The Recluse.”
- Kyle Ryan, The A.V. Club
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
The Ugly Organ (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered]
Cursive Lyrics
A Gentleman Caller Your gentleman caller Well, he's been calling on another He …
Adapt I want the rich boy I want the rich boy But the…
Am I Not Yours? who's your school friend? he left you some messages he'd l…
Art Is Hard Cut it out - your self-inflicted pain Is getting too routine…
Bloody Murderer There's a ghost in my bed She cries in her sleep She…
Butcher the Song There's a time And a place, This is neither the time…
Driftwood: A Fairy Tale He swam steadily for most of the day. Suddenly he…
Escape Artist Midnight is rising your eyes adjusting on a sullen, distant…
Excerpts from Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly, Feb 24, 1997 Why I should leave: no-why I'm leaving you for him.well,…
Harold Weathervein Harold walks down Any street of this town Both crier and…
Herald! Frankenstein Now I can't stop the monster I've created…
May Flowers I colored this picture for you. A little girl crying…
Nonsense Do do do do do do do doo, ba da…
Once Once a liar, always a liar. Once a cheater, always a…
Sierra In the desert, Where the cities are made of gold, There's a…
Sinner's Serenade Oh God, no, Please don't tell her What I've done; I can…
Some Red-Handed Sleight of Hand And now we proudly present Songs perverse and songs of lamen…
Staying Alive I've decided tonight I'm staying alive Just kicking and scre…
The Recluse I wake alone, in a woman's room I hardly know. I…
The Ugly Organist And now we proudly present Songs perverse and songs of lamen…