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Buffalo Tom is an Alternative-Rock band who built up a following with fuzz-laden guitars, effervescent melodies and muscle-building tours; the trio of Bill Janovitz on vocals+guitar, Chris Colbourn on bass and Tom Maginnis on drums, formed in Boston, Massachusetts USA, in the mid-'80s and gelled into a solid unit that has remained unbroken.

Their eponymous first album was released on SST in 1989 and relied on raw, fresh power chords, exemplified in the searing opener "Sunflower Suit".
Buffalo Tom's second LP, "Birdbrain", released on Beggars Banquet in November of 1990, showed the band and Janovitz in particular, getting to grips with the personal angst and alienation that was to recur throughout their later material; the album received some national airplay with the title-track.
"Let Me Come Over", followed in spring 1992, the first single, "Taillights Fade" a power ballad that opens gently and reaches a soul-wrenching crescendo, became a standard request on alt-Rock stations and "Mineral" had a wistful folkier strand woven round a delicious melody, however, the album didn't sell as well as it deserved.
In November of the following year Buffalo Tom delivered their first Billboard charting album, "Big Red Letter Day", which notched the Modern Rock top 10 hit "Soda Jerk".
Their next album, "Sleepy Eyed", was released at around the time of the band's excellent set at the Reading Festival in 1995 and was perhaps their finest effort to date; recorded at Dreamland, a converted church in Woodstock, it reached #160 on The Billboard 200 and peaked at #4 on the Top Heatseekers Albums list producing the fresh grungy single "Tangerine".
Their sixth album, "Smitten", was released in September 1998 to little fanfare.

Buffalo Tom broke a nine-year hiatus from the studio with "Three Easy Pieces", a 13-song set which was issued through New West Records in July 2007; the album included the single "You'll Never Catch Him".

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Buffalo Tom

(1989)

1. Sunflower Suit
2. The Plank
3. Impossible
4. 500,000 Warnings
5. The Bus
6. Racine
7. In The Attic
8. Flushing Stars
9. Walk Away
10. Reason Why
11. Blue
12. Deep In The Ground

 

Birdbrain

(1990)

1. Birdbrain
2. Skeleton Key
3. Caress
4. Guy Who Is Me
5. Enemy
6. Crawl
7. Fortune Teller
8. Baby
9. Directive
10. Bleeding Heart
11. Heaven [live acoustic]
12. Reason Why [live acoustic]

 

Let Me Come Over

(1992)

1. Staples
2. Taillights Fade
3. Mountains Of Your Head
4. Mineral
5. Darl
6. Larry
7. Velvet Roof
8. I'm Not There
9. Stymied
10. Porchlight
11. Frozen Lake
12. Saving Grace
13. Crutch

 

Big Red Letter Day

(1993)

1. Sodajerk
2. I'm Allowed
3. Tree House
4. Would Not Be Denied
5. Latest Monkey
6. My Responsibility
7. Dry Land
8. Torch Singer
9. Late At Night
10. Suppose
11. Anything That Way

 

Sleepy Eyed

(1995)

1. Tangerine
2. Summer
3. Kitchen Door
4. Rules
5. It's You
6. When You Discover
7. Sunday Night
8. Your Stripes
9. Sparklers
10. Clobbered
11. Sundress
12. Twenty-Points
13. Souvenir
14. Crueler

 

Smitten

(1998)

1. Rachael
2. Postcard
3. Knot In It
4. The Bible
5. Scottish Windows
6. White Paint Morning
7. Wiser
8. See To Me
9. Register Side
10. Do You In
11. Under Milkwood
12. Walking Wounded

 

Three Easy Pieces

(2007)

1. Bad Phone Call
2. Three Easy Pieces
3. You'll Never Catch Him
4. Bottom Of The Rain
5. Lost Downtown
6. Renovating
7. Good Girl
8. Pendleton
9. Gravity
10. Hearts Of Palm
11. September Shirt
12. CC And Callas
13. Thrown

 

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