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Nearly two decades after its release, Seattle indie rock band Harvey Danger’s cherished debut full-length album, Where have all the merrymakers gone?, will be released on vinyl LP for the first time ever on July 29th via No Sleep Records.

The Vinyl packaging for Where have all the merrymakers gone? will feature new artwork, designed by band members Aaron Huffman, Evan Sult and Sean Nelson, that features the same house where the band lived together during their early years - as depicted in the original cover art - now updated to reflect the passage of time.

Originally released in 1997, Where have all the merrymakers gone? catapulted the young band to stardom with the massive radio and video success of their anthemic hit song “Flagpole Sitta.” The album has since sold over half a million copies with the single still receiving regular airplay on radio stations across the country.

For many critics, Harvey Danger’s history begins and ends with “Flagpole Sitta.” However, a revisitation of Where have all the merrymakers gone? reveals an album that transcends it’s most famous song with music that is smart, sardonic and dynamic and a band that was far more than simply a “one hit wonder.” 

Harvey Danger emerged from the garages and basements of mid-'90s Seattle playing music that walked a line between indie-rock and pop-punk, with an uncommon emphasis on the clever, heartfelt lyrics. They never sought worldwide notoriety, but managed the best they could when it was thrust upon them. Simply put it was four kids, Aaron Huffman (bass), Jeff Lin (guitar), Evan Sult (drums) and Sean Nelson (vocals), who created a song and an album that made a mark on rock music and whose pleasures have only deepened with time.

In preparation for the upcoming release, singer Sean Nelson wrote a foreword for the vinyl release, looking back on the album and its unexpected success.

“Under the long shadow of 17 years’ worth of memory, I must say that listening back to the 10 songs that changed everything for us is a bracing sensation. To hear the person you were when you weren’t yet who you are now is to understand how little you understood, and to recognize how little you even could have understood. This is doubly bracing when you consider that the person you were then had everything riding on the depth of his understanding. It’s tempting to be hard on your past self, the one who made all those idiotic mistakes, who scorched so many friendships, who insisted he knew exactly what we was doing while steering car after car into ditch after ditch. And yet, temptations aside, it feels a lot better, and in a much bigger way, to hoist hindsight’s binoculars to your deteriorating eyes and spy something you love.” (full essay from Nelson can be found in the liner notes of the vinyl LP)

Flagpole Sitta

Lyrics: 

All I ever wanted just a dream away
Holding on to moments won't let them sway
Every little whisper in the night we stay
All I ever wanted 
To hold your hand tight
Feel the world stop spinning 
In your arms tonight

Every single moment feels so brand new
Lost in your gaze at your place
You and me together making life so sweet
Holding you close feeling so true
All I ever wanted is to be with you

All I ever wanted
To be with you
Just us two
All I ever wanted
Dreams come true
Endless love
Just me and you

Morning light we rise up hand in hand
Through the highs and lows we understand
Love's a journey written in untouched sand
Silent nights you calm my worried mind
In your eyes the peace I finally find

Dreams we weave our hearts they sing
Through every challenge love’s the thing
Faith in us forever we'll bring
Feel the world stop spinning
Together always we'll wear love's ring

All I ever wanted
To be with you
Just us two
All I ever wanted
Dreams come true
Endless love
Just me and you

All I ever wanted
To be with you
Just us two
All I ever wanted
Dreams come true
Endless love
Just me and you

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