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1001 Other Albums<p><strong>Died Pretty – Free Dirt (1986,&nbsp;Australia)</strong></p><p>As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 203 on <a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The List</a>, submitted by joostverweij.</p><p>Feeling pretty basic (/low on spoons), so here’s some bare bones facts about this one:</p><p>The band was originally named “Final Solution” after the <a href="https://pereubumusic.bandcamp.com/album/final-solution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1976 single by Pere Ubu</a>, which was itself named after the Sherlock Holmes’ book <em>The Final Problem</em>.</p><p><em>Free Dirt</em> is Died Pretty’s debut album. It has a great cover. It’s 40 minutes and 10 tracks long. It’s lovely. It’s only been reissued on vinyl once, in 2022.</p><p>The band would go on to release 7 more studio albums, the last in 2000. Their 4th, <em><a href="https://diedpretty.bandcamp.com/album/doughboy-hollow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doughboy Hollow</a></em> (1991), is considered by some to be their best.</p><p>They have a (now possibly defunct) <a href="http://yesterdaysletters.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog</a> run by guitarist/backing vocalist Brett Myers with some cool archive videos and whatnot.</p><p>Ron S. Peno, the lead singer, left us, in 2023 (RIP).</p><p>Hope you’re hanging in there, all.</p><ul><li><a href="https://diedpretty.bandcamp.com/album/free-dirt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bandcamp: Died Pretty – <em>Free Dirt</em></a> </li><li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/72141-Died-Pretty-Free-Dirt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Discogs: Died Pretty – <em>Free Dirt</em></a></li></ul><ol><li>The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”, “Darling, if you want me to”, and “You, I would die 4 U”, following a survey that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz”. The third option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking the third album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “die”. ↩︎</li></ol><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1001otheralbums/" target="_blank">#1001OtherAlbums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1980s/" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/alt-rock/" target="_blank">#altRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/aus-music/" target="_blank">#AusMusic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/aussie-rock/" target="_blank">#AussieRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/australia/" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/died-pretty/" target="_blank">#DiedPretty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/garage-rock/" target="_blank">#garageRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/indie-rock/" target="_blank">#indieRock</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/listen-to-this/" target="_blank">#ListenToThis</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music/" target="_blank">#music</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/music-discovery/" target="_blank">#musicDiscovery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/musodon-2/" target="_blank">#Musodon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/rock/" target="_blank">#rock</a></p>
Alan Crawford<p>More wonderful memories for today. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DiedPretty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiedPretty</span></a> <br><a href="https://youtu.be/07oZHDgPiqo?si=tDqiEo6Wc2TxVWke" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/07oZHDgPiqo?si=tDqiEo</span><span class="invisible">6Wc2TxVWke</span></a></p>