London-Sire Records
31143
King James Version
Released
Track listing
- Show Me the Hero
- Humility on Parade
- Why I’m Lonely
- Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo
- You Miss the Point Completely, I Get the Point Exactly
- Authenticity
- (Theme from) Carjack Fever
- Pike St./Park Slope
- (This is) the Thrilling Conversation You’ve Been Waiting For
- Loyalty Bldg.
- Underground
- The Same as Being in Love
Credits
- Aaron Huffman: bass, guitar, pipe organ, vibraphone
- Jeff J. Lin: guitar, piano, organ, theremin, xylophone, silver box o' death
- Sean Nelson: lead and backing vocals, keyboards, melodian, tambourine, triangle
- Evan Sult: drums
- Produced by John Goodmanson and Harvey Danger
- Engineered and mixed by John Goodmanson
- All songs written by Harvey Danger, except “Underground” written by Christopher Possanza
- String arrangements by Jeff
- Art direction, design and photography by Tae Won Yu
- Basic tracks recorded in March 1999 at Bearsville Sound Studios (Woodstock, NY)
- Overdubs recorded in April 1999 at Bearsville, John & Stu's Place (Seattle, WA), and Bear Creek Studios (Woodinville, WA)
- Tracks 1, 2, 10 recorded at John & Stu's Place in October 1999
- Tracks 3, 5, 7, 12 mixed at The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA) on May 17, 1999
- Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8–11 mixed at The Warehouse Studio (Vancouver, BC) in June 2000
- Drum Tech at Bearsville: Carl Plaster
- Guitar Tech at Bearsville: Fisher
- Second Engineers: Aaron Franz and Damien Shannon (Bearsville), Ryan Hadlock (Bear Creek), Okhee Kim (Village Recorder), and Zach Blackstone (The Warehouse)
- Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
Quotes
AMH: I seem to recall that we went into the recording of KJV (after completing a handful of demos at John & Stu’s) optimistic and excited, if a bit weary from a year of touring, and all that came with it. This was what we’d been waiting for, after all; one of the main reasons we wanted to be on a major label in the first place. We wanted to make a real album. A big album, in a big studio. An album that sounded the way we sounded in our heads. An album that was paid for by somebody else.
And we did it. Sort of.10A
ECS: Nothing could have been more different from our first record. I think that undigestible fact nearly killed us. How do you stay authentic within an inherently inauthentic reality? Our first album was based on a relationship we had to each other, to our instruments, and to our community that was no longer true; if we weren’t going to fake it, what the hell were we going to do?
The answer is King James Version, which sounds surprisingly awesome to me now. Once again, John Goodmanson was our center; helping us through the doubt and—let me be frank—terror. We practiced at his studio and got mixdowns of our work at the end of the day; there’s really nothing more decadent than that. John was made of equal parts smoke, diet Coke, and the sweetest laughter you ever heard from a guy in a ponytail. Having recorded another few albums since then, I feel now that KJV is really about John taking care of us. Because of John, we were able to create imaginary new selves who could write new songs for a new album.10A
SCN: King James Version… was an album that I personally and we collectively invested in completely. We really put all we had into it, and more, and just never lost faith that it was going to advance us artistically and somehow vindicate the compromised success of the first album. And then it was like it never happened.
Notes
- This album is dedicated to John Goodmanson.
- Released on vinyl in 2025 by Barsuk and Latent Print Records.