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1996 studio album by Lotion
Nobody's Cool
The words "LOTION" in purple and "NOBODY'S COOL" in a white outline are superimposed over a blurred photograph of a crowd surrounding a tree.
Studio album by Lotion
ReleasedMarch 1996
RecordedBig House, New York City, New York, United States
GenreAlternative rock
Length47:34
LanguageEnglish
LabelspinART
ProducerJim Rondinelli
Lotion chronology
full Isaac
(1994) 		Nobody's Cool
(1996) 		✆
(1998)
Singles from Nobody's Cool
  1. "Blind for Now"
    Released: 1995
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Nobody's Cool is the second studio album by Lotion, released in March 1996.

Thomas Pynchon writing the album's liner notes drew attention; at the time, after "the press registered a fair amount of amazement" at this development, the New York magazine quoted Rob Youngberg as having said "We wanted him to do , so we kept hinting... Then he offered", and reported that "the story, told in The New Yorker and other places, is that Pynchon followed the band to a gig in Cincinnati, where he revealed himself backstage. And they all became friends." The same article however continued: "Some people wonder whether any of it is true, or just Pynchon pulling everybody's leg again, with the boys in the band in cahoots. 'As I understand it, the real story is that the father of one of the band members is Thomas Pynchon's personal banker', says a music reporter. 'But I can't prove it.'" In 2009, The New Yorker- giving details of the original story including that Pynchon "had approached after a concert at a Cincinnati laundromat-cum-rock club; that he didn’t reveal his identity until months later, when he spotted a copy of his short-story collection lying around backstage"- stated this "hoax" story to be "mostly untrue", with the band at that time stating that "they had fed reporters at various outlets an account designed to be 'as Pynchonesque as possible'" and that Rob Youngberg's mother was Pynchon's accountant; having given him an advance copy of the band's album, "he liked it well enough; at any rate, he agreed to write the liner notes".

Track listing

All songs composed by Lotion

  1. "Dear Sir" – 2:37
  2. "The New Timmy" – 2:19
  3. "The Sad Part" – 3:21
  4. "Rock Chick" – 3:44
  5. "Blind for Now" – 3:11
  6. "The Enormous Room" – 3:42
  7. "Sandra" – 3:43
  8. "Juggernaut" – 2:58
  9. "Namedropper" – 5:32
  10. "Dalmacia 007" – 3:41
  11. "Precious Tiny" – 9:57
  12. "Switch" – 2:49

Personnel

Lotion
Additional personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Pynchon, Thomas (June 1996). "Lunch with Lotion". Esquire. 125 (6): 84–88, 90. Archived from the original on August 15, 2019.
  3. LLC, New York Media (1996-11-11). New York Magazine. New York Media, LLC.
  4. "The Pynchon Hoax". The New Yorker. 10 August 2009.
  5. Liner notes
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