Deep Album Cuts Vol. 311: 311
Recently, as I was finishing up the 310th post in this series, I realized that the 311th installment was coming up and I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to feature 311. If I'd thought further ahead I would've tried to post it on March 11th ('311 Day'), but oh well.
2. Hydroponic
3. Applied Science
4. Taiyed
5. Hive
6. Misdirected Hostility
7. Random
8. DLMD
9. What Was I Thinking
10. Stealing Happy Hours / Enter Space
11. Freeze Time
12. Eons
13. Stick Tight
14. Champagne
15. Reconsider Everything
16. Crack The Code
17. There's Always An Excuse
18. Solar Flare
19. Jackpot
20. Wild Nights
21. Friday Afternoon
22. Too Late
23. What The?!
Tracks 1 and 2 from Music (1993)
Tracks 1 and 2 from Music (1993)
Tracks 3 and 4 from Grassroots (1994)
Tracks 5, 6, 7 and 8 from 311 (1995)
Tracks 9 and 10 from Transistor (1997)
Tracks 11 and 12 from Soundsystem (1999)
Tracks 13 and 14 from From Chaos (2001)
Tracks 15 and 16 from Evolver (2003)
Tracks 17 and 18 from Don't Tread On Me (2005)
Track 19 from Uplifter (2009)
Track 20 from Universal Pulse (2011)
Track 21 from Stereolithic (2014)
Track 22 from Mosaic (2017)
Track 23 from Voyager (2019)
In the early '90s, most of the bands fusing rock and rap were from L.A. (RHCP, RATM) or NY (Beastie Boys), but 311 came straight outta Omaha, Nebraska. An early form of the band gigged around as Fish Hippos, with and without Nick Hexum, and he rejoined under the condition that they change their name. Hexum's first gig back with the band was, incredibly, opening for Fugazi in Omaha just after the release of Repeater, and they announced from the stage that their new name was 311.
The first time I heard 311 on the radio was "Don't Stay Home," which I hilariously thought was a new They Might Be Giants single (I still maintain that Nick Hexum's voice is occasionally a dead ringer for John Linnell's voice). My brother had a cassette of 311 and I was a little surprised at how heavy some of the band's other songs were, and we saw them at the H.O.R.D.E. festival in '97, they put on a pretty good show, Chad Sexton is a pretty talented drummer.
I didn't even realize for a while that 311 was the band's third major label album and that their debut had spun off a minor radio hit, "Do You Right." Those first two albums eventually went gold and remained a pretty major part of the band's live repertoire. 311 has never broken up or gone on any major hiatus and has played an incredible number of shows, so I mostly picked songs for this playlist based on what they've played live the most.
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