Alerted from the Twitter-verse that the second Atlantic Eleventh Dream Day record, Lived To Tell, came out on this day thirty years ago. I’ve documented some of the experience of that year, 1991 in other forums, but it was a crazy time for us with much touring and promotion, culminating with the birth of Matthew in December. Lived to Tell was ultimately our pinnacle in terms of sales and fame, critical and otherwise. New York Times had it in their top ten that year. Our European tour with Yo La Tengo was the biggest we would ever have. It’s funny though, when I rank all of our records, I have it placed toward the bottom. Maybe I couldn’t get over the shitty mastering or the experience of the label fucking up after Bettina and Peter left for London Records. I’m proud of all that music though (such a strange array of songs!) and every moment of that year with Doug, Baird, Janet, and Wink. And seeing that Atlantic Records label still gives me chills.
