Pressed on heavyweight, 180 gram black vinyl. The Big Come Up is the debut album by the American rock duo The Black Keys, released in 2002 on Alive Records. It was produced by drummer Patrick Carney. As of 2012, the album had sold 139,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan. In 2005, music critic Chuck Klosterman singled out The Big Come Up as one of 21 "high-quality albums" from the previous three years. The song "I'll Be Your Man" was used as the theme song for the HBO series Hung. "I'll Be Your Man" also appeared on the FX series Rescue Me. Alive Records re-presses this album regularly, often several times a year on different coloured vinyl or with altered sleeve artwork. These are usually marketed as limited editions. As of January 2012, Alive Records had released The Big Come Up on vinyl on at least 14 separate occasions.
On paper, two Ohio white guys forming a drum-and-guitar blues duo seemed like the last thing the world needed in 2002. Fortunately, the guys revisiting the tried and true were guitarist-vocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney a.k.a. the Black Keys. With the former's blown-cone distortion and slinky riffs, and the latter's positively Bonham-esque way of inhabiting each change with a loose power, they smacked judgment out of one's brain before anyone could call it cliche. Taking cues from Fat Possum-centric blues legends like Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside (both covered here on the first two tracks) and garage fetishists like Billy Childish and Jack White alike, the Akron duo arrived with swagger on these 13 tracks. Tackling covers traditional (like Sleepy John Estes's "Leavin' Trunk") and non (the Beatles's "She Said, She Said") and their own workouts (the aptly titled "Heavy Soul"), THE BIG COME UP wins on the strength of Auerbach's ravagedly expressive vocals--which match the egdes in his guitar tone crag for crag.
The Black Keys: Dan Auerbach (vocals, guitar); Gabe Fulvimar (Moog synthesizer, keyboards); Patrick Carney (drums).
Recorded Synth Etiquette Analog Sound, Akron, Ohio between January and February 2002.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
- Released: 01/29/2008
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Tracklist
| A1 | Busted | 2:34 | |
| A2 | Do The Rump | 2:37 | |
| A3 | I'll Be Your Man | 2:20 | |
| A4 | Countdown | 2:38 | |
| A5 |
The Breaks
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3:01 | |
| A6 | Run Me Down | 2:27 | |
| A7 |
She Said, She Said [Alternate Version]
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2:55 | |
| B8 |
Heavy Soul [Alternate Version]
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2:38 | |
| B9 | Yearnin' [Alternate Version] | 2:27 | |
| B10 | No Fun [Vinyl Only] | 2:33 | |
| B11 | Them Eyes | 2:22 | |
| B12 | Leavin' Trunk | 2:57 | |
| B13 | Brooklyn Bound | 3:09 | |
| B14 | 240 Years Before Your Time | 2:27 |
