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Biography
Unreferenced|date=June 2007The Young Fresh Fellows are an United States|American alternative rock group that was formed in 1981 in Seattle, Washington , by Scott McCaughey and Chuck Carroll; Tad Hutchison, Chuck Carroll's first cousin, joined for the recording of the group's debut album in 1983.Their first album was The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest (1984) after which Jim Sangster joined the group on bass and McCaughey switched from bass to guitar. Carroll left the group in 1988, and was replaced by Kurt Bloch from The Fastbacks .
The song "Amy Grant", a comical song about Contemporary Christian music and pop music artist AmyGrant , from the album The Men Who Loved Music , was a huge success on college radio and arguably their biggest hit.
The band are still together, although after 1996's A Tribute To Music they released no new material until Because We Hate You (2001), a split release with McCaughey's other band, the Minus 5 . McCaughey has given more attention to the Minus 5 since then, while Bloch and Sangster have formed the band Sgt. Major , and Hutchison is working more on visual art and design, as well as performing/recording as Chris & Tad with Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|The Presidents of the United States of America . However, the Fellows released I Think This Is in 2009 and embarked on a tour of Spain that October.
From 1994 to 2011, McCaughey was a sort of "fifth member" of R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M. , working with the band both onstage and in the studio.
The band was mentioned in the They Might Be Giants song " Flood (They Might Be Giants album)|Twisting ", and in "Big Salty Tears" by The Ziggens , which was later covered by Bradley Nowell of Sublime (band)|Sublime on the album Sublime Acoustic: Bradley Nowell & Friends .
The tribute album ''This One's for the Fellows (2004) features twenty covers of Young Fresh Fellows songs by artists including The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|The Presidents of the United States of America , Robyn Hitchcock , and The Makers (American band)|The Makers .
Discography
The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest (CD/LP) - PopLlama Records|PopLlama - 1984
The Men Who Loved Music (CD/LP) - Frontier Records - 1987
Totally Lost (CD/LP) - Frontier Records - 1988
Beans and Tolerance (LP) - Self-released - 1989
'' This One's For the Ladies (CD/LP) - Frontier Records - 1989
Electric Bird Digest (CD/LP) - Frontier Records - 1991
Somos Los Mejores (CD/LP) - Munster Records -1991
'' It's Low Beat Time (CD/LP) - Frontier/Munster - 1992
Gleich Jetzt (CD) - 1+2 Records - 1992
Take It Like A Matador (CD) - Record Runner - 1993
Temptation on a Saturday (CD/LP) - PopLlama/Munster - 1995
A Tribute To Music (CD/LP) - Rock & Roll Inc. - 1997
Because We Hate You (CD) - Mammoth Records - 2001 (double CD split with The Minus 5 )
I Think This Is (CD) - Yep Roc Records - 2009
'' I Don't Think This Is (LP/CD) - Munster Records / Rock& Roll Inc. - 2009 (three different tracks from the above, and different artwork)
Tribute album
'' This One's for the Fellows (CD) - BlueDisguise Records - 2004
External links
Toomanylinks|date=October 2011
http://www.universaltrendsetter.org Fan site
http://www.stevestav.com/Scott_McCaughey.html Scott McCaughey interview, 2006
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