Login
Login

2×4 (Guadalcanal Diary album)

{{More citations needed|date=January 2022}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

{{Infobox album

| name = 2×4

| type = studio

| artist = Guadalcanal Diary

| cover = Guadalcanal Diary 2X4.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1987}}

| recorded = 1985–87

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Alternative

| length = 43:16

| label = Elektra Records{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=512}}

| producer = Don Dixon{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Record Producers |date=1999 |publisher=Billboard Books |page=188}}

| prev_title = Jamboree

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = Flip-Flop

| next_year = 1989

}}

{{album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/2x4-mw0000193120|title=2X4 – Guadalcanal Diary | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|publisher=AllMusic}}

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=29}}

| rev3 = New Musical Express

| rev3score = 3/10{{cite magazine|title=Guadalcanal Diary: 2×4 |last=Stevenson |first=Campbell |date=28 November 1987 |magazine=New Musical Express|page=35}}

}}

2×4 is the third album by Guadalcanal Diary.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSEbtY6IkTgC&pg=PA30|title=Spins|work=SPIN|date=17 March 1988|via=Google Books}} It was released in 1987.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/guadalcanal-diary-mn0000648097/biography|title=Guadalcanal Diary Biography, Songs, & Albums|publisher=AllMusic}}

The album peaked at No. 183 on the Billboard 200.{{cite book |last1=Whitburn |first1=Joel |title=Top Pop Albums |date=2010 |publisher=Record Research Inc. |page=329 |edition=7th}}

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "smashing," writing that the band members "dip into their shadowy art-rock pasts ... to finally create music as distinctive as the lyrics."{{cite web |title=Guadalcanal Diary |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/guadalcanal-diary/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=17 January 2022}}

AllMusic wrote that 2×4 "sounds like the group's strongest and most confident album." Paste included the album at No. 64 on its list of "The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s".{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/1980s/best-albums-of-the-1980s/|title=The 80 Best Albums of the 1980s|date=12 January 2020|work=Paste}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/article/jeff-walls-guitarist-for-guadalcanal-diary-hillbil/|title=Jeff Walls, Guitarist for Guadalcanal Diary, Has Died|date=30 May 2019|work=Paste}}

Track listing

  1. "Litany (Life Goes On)" (Attaway) – 3:41
  2. "Under the Yoke" (Walls) – 4:28
  3. "Get over It" (Attaway/Crowe) – 3:00
  4. "Little Birds" (Attaway) – 3:57
  5. "Things Fall Apart" (Attaway/Poe/Walls) – 2:44
  6. "Let the Big Wheel Roll" (Walls) – 2:40
  7. "And Your Bird Can Sing" (Lennon–McCartney) – 2:07
  8. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" (Walls) – 3:13
  9. "Newborn" (Attaway) – 4:41
  10. "Winds of Change" (Walls) – 2:55
  11. "Say Please" (Attaway) – 2:10
  12. "3 AM" (Attaway/Walls) – 4:12
  13. "Lips of Steel" (Attaway/Walls) – 3:28

Bonus tracks

  1. "Home [Joe Blaney Mix]" – 2:42
  2. "Shango" – 4:29
  3. "It's Time" – 2:30
  4. "Carrying the Torch (demo version)" – 2:56
  5. "Just an Excuse (demo version)" – 3:03
  6. "Lips of Steel (demo version)" – 3:36
  7. "Under the Yoke (demo version)" – 3:04
  8. "Winds of Change (demo version)" – 3:21
  9. "Get Over It (demo version)" – 2:18
  10. "3 A.M. (demo version)" – 3:53
  11. "Tutti-Frutti (demo version)" – 1:52

Personnel

Charts

class="wikitable"

!Chart (1988)

!Peak
position

US Billboard 200

|align="center"|183

References

{{reflist}}

{{Guadalcanal Diary}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:2x4 (Guadalcanal Diary album)}}

Category:Guadalcanal Diary (band) albums

Category:1987 albums

Category:Albums produced by Don Dixon (musician)

Category:Elektra Records albums