Vinyl includes MP3 coupon. "Shine a Light" was The Constantines' second full-length and their first for Sub Pop. This 11th-anniversary vinyl reissue includes a bonus 7" featuring tracks from the Nighttime and Young Lions CD singles.

 

The first pressing of the The Constantines' self-titled (and Juno Award-nominated) debut (released on Three Gut Records in 2001, and re-released outside of Canada on Sub Pop in 2004) was fittingly packaged so that, upon opening the red cardstock booklet, you'd find a single strike-anywhere match. In an effort to not ruin the beauty and poignancy of a thing through over-explanation, suffice it to say that if your relationship with rock and roll is not fundamentally a quest for fire (elemental, transformative, consuming), you've missed the point. This from Magnet magazine: "They're young offenders with sharpened teeth who make grinding, literate punk with the elasti-to-explosive guitars heard on Fugazi's "Smallpox Champion," the stark lyrical economy of a Vonnegut-penned newspaper obituary." And: "The Constantines are old souls in young bodies-guys in their early 20s who sound like Joe Strummer backed by Fugazi - making music that wakes the sleeping and the dead." 

 

TRACKLISTING:  01. NATIONAL HUM 02. SHINE A LIGHT 03. NIGHTTIME / ANYTIME (IT'S ALRIGHT) 04. INSECTIVORA 05. YOUNG LIONS 06. GOODBYE BABY & AMEN 07. ON TO YOU 08. POISON 09. SCOUNDREL BABES 10. TIGER & CRANE 11. TANK COMMANDER (HUNG UP IN A WAREHOUSE TOWN) 12. SUB-DOMESTIC DISC #2: 01. THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME AN ANGEL (TALKING HEADS COVER) 02. RAW YOUTH (ROYAL CITY) 03. HOTLINE OPERATOR