“Rotterdam” by Wedding Present

David Gedge wrote both the words and the music for "Rotterdam", one of the songs on Seamonsters, the Wedding Present's third album, released in 1991. That was the record the English band made with Steve Albini, the American producer who had already recorded their Brassneck and 3 Songs EPs, and they knocked it out in ten days at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

Like those EPs, Seamonsters came out harsher and rougher-edged than the band's first two albums. The group had long been ribbed in the music press for their full-sentence song titles, so this time every title was a single word, "Rotterdam" included. Guitarist Peter Solowka was fired before the record even came out, with Paul Dorrington stepping in.

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