Goo Goo Dolls – 2002 – Gutterflower
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Goo Goo Dolls
Title: Gutterflower
Label: Warner Bros
Released: Apr 9, 2002
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Big Machine
#Think About Me
#Here Is Gone
#You Never Know
#What A Scene
#Up, Up, Up
#It’s Over
#Sympathy
#What Do You Need’
#Smash
#Tucked Away
#Truth Is A Whisper
Review:
Stolen from Amazon.com:
On the surface, the Goo Goo Dolls’ Gutterflower is a seamless continuation of 1998’s Dizzy Up the Girl, with sinewy guitars; muscular, anthemic choruses; and Johnny Rzeznik’s perfectly articulated rasping vocals. But on closer listening, the Goos’ eighth album is made of much sterner stuff. Those quixotic, yearning lyrics of yore have taken on a darker cast, no doubt due to Rzeznik’s divorce. As a result, Gutterflower almost has the feel of a concept album about love gone wrong, with Rzeznik providing anxious commentary rife with images of dislocation and agitation. The listener is given barometric readings of the singer’s bruised psyche as he attempts to put himself back together again. Luckily, Rzeznik is a clever and facile lyricist with a knack for elevating garden-variety neurosis into a rather compelling soap opera, sketching edgy characters that would feel right at home in David Lynch’s world. “Swallow all your bitter pills, that’s what makes you beautiful,” he advises in “Big Machine,” while in “Sympathy” Rzeznik appears to be apologizing to his former wife for his past transgressions, only to lash out with an elegant deftness, chastising her for “all these thoughts you stole from me.” While he may have a face like an angel, Rzeznik unleashes a cunning and a fascinating brutish force not seen before, making this a much more interesting album than previous offerings. –Jaan Uhelszk
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Finger Eleven – 2010 – Life Turns Electric
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Finger Eleven
Title: Life Turns Electric
Label: Wind-Up
Released: Oct 5, 2010
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Any Moment Now
#Pieces Fit
#Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me
#Living In A Dream
#Good Intentions
#Stone Soul
#Ordinary Life
#Don’t Look Down
#Famous Last Words
#Love’s What You Left Me With
Review:
2010 album from the Alt-Rock outfit. Following the success of consecutive Gold-certified releases (the self titled Finger Eleven and Them vs. You vs. Me) Finger Eleven returns with Life Turns Electric, featuring the hit single ‘Living In A Dream’.
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Mike Doughty – 2008 – Golden Delicious
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Mike Doughty
Title: Golden Delicious
Label: ATO
Released: Feb 19, 2008
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Fort Hood
#I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing
#Put It Down
#More Bacon than the Pan Can Handle
#27 Jennifers
#I Wrote a Song About Your Car
#I Got the Drop on You
#Wednesday (No Se Apoye)
#Like a Luminous Girl
#Nectarine (part one)
#Navigating by the Stars at Night
Review:
Stolen from Amazon:
Former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty is a true multi-media artist: musician, songwriter, poet, playwright, photographer, and an avid, eloquent blogger. On this 2008 album, Doughty and Grammy-winning producer Dan Wilson worked with Doughty’s touring band to craft a driven, organic sound around Mike’s savvy, agile lyrical escapades. Lead track ‘Fort Hood’ is named for the U.S. army base that has suffered the greatest number of casualties in the Iraq War; the anthem was inspired by a visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In less somber moments, ‘Put It Down’ is a hip-shaking Pop gem, and the fan favorite ’27 Jennifers’ was recorded with a live band for the first time. Golden Delicious is the follow-up to Doughty’s album Haughty Melodic (2005).
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Mike Doughty – 2011 – Yes & Also Yes
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Mike Doughty
Title: Yes & Also Yes
Label: Snack Bar
Released: Aug 29, 2011
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Na Na Nothing
#Into the Un
#Day by Day By
#Holiday (What Do You Want’)
#Russell
#Strike the Motion
#Have at It
#Makelloser Mann
#The Huffer and the Cutter
#Rational Man
#Telegenic Exes #1 (Hapless Dancers)
#Weird Summer
#Vegetable
#Telegenic Exes #2 (Astoria)
Review:
Things Mike Doughty Would Like You To Know About His New Album Yes and Also Yes:
1. The title, Yes and Also Yes was the headline of my profile on an online dating site. I improvised it, because they wouldn’t let me post until I wrote a headline. I was wretchedly unsuccessful at online dating.
2. The single, ‘Na Na Nothing,’ was partially stolen from a song written by Nikki Sixx, Dan Wilson (wrote ‘Closing Time’), and Matt Gerrard (wrote a bunch of tunes in ‘High School Musical’) (I got their permission to steal it)
3. ‘Holiday,’ a Christmas song, is a duet with Rosanne Cash. I did a show with her, and she said, onstage, ‘I feel nervous playing my new songs, because Mike Doughty is here, and he’s such a great songwriter.’ That blew my mind.
4. The song ‘Into the Un’ was written for, and rejected by the Twilight soundtrack. (It’s about goth kids on LSD in a train station)
5. I recorded it in a studio in Koreatown, Manhattan, from July ’10 to April ’11. Produced by Pat Dillett. Notable musicians included my trusty
factotum Andrew ‘Scrap’ Livingston on bass, and the pianist Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, who basically plays with everybody who’s groovy (Justin Bond, Antony and the Johnsons, Glen Hansard, The National, David Byrne, Yoko Ono). I’m releasing it on my own label, Snack Bar, through Megaforce. I split with Dave Matthews’ label ATO so I could run my own shop and have more control, business-wise.
6. I wrote most of the songs at the legendary artists’ colony Yaddo, where Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, and a lot of other all-time giants worked. It was founded by a railroad tycoon’s wife, in her mansion, built in the 1890s. They put up artists for a month or two, feed them in an opulent dining room, and give them space and time to work.
7. I used a capsule of the antidepressant duloxetine as a percussion instrument on some tracks. I held the tiny pill between my thumb and
forefinger, put it close to the mic and shook it so it made a shcka-shcka-shcka! sound.
8. I wrote a book about my ugly, drug-doing years called The Book of Drugs. It’s coming out in 2012 on Da Capo/Perseus.
9. The song ‘Makelloser Mann’ is in German.
10. I play a Chinese lute (called a zhong ruan) on the song ‘Telegenic Exes, #1’
11. In the liner notes, I say I exclusively wear Paul Smith suits and Sol Moscot eyeglasses, and eat only gummi bears made by Haribo. I did this because I hope they’ll send me free stuff.
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Alex Clare – 2012 – Lateness of the Hour
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Alex Clare
Title: Lateness of the Hour
Label: Universal Republic
Released: May 8, 2012
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Up All Night
#Treading Water
#Relax My Beloved
#Too Close
#Humming Bird
#Hands Are Clever
#Tight Rope
#Whispering
#I Love You
#Sanctuary
#I Won’t Let You Down
Review:
Like everyone else, heard “Too Close” on the car commercial and decided to check the rest of it out.
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Buckcherry – 2001 – Time Bomb
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Buckcherry
Title: Time Bomb
Label: Dreamworks
Released: Mar 27, 2001
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Frontside
#Ridin’
#Time Bomb
#Porno Star
#Place In The Sun
#Helpless
#Underneath
#Slit My Wrists
#Whiskey In The Morning
#Without You
#Slammin’
#Fall
#Open My Eyes (Bonus Track)
Review:
Stolen from Amazon.com:
If you liked this bunch’s self-titled debut, you will certainly dig the dozen raunchy tunes that populate Time Bomb. Wiry, wild Joshua Todd–a classic blues-belting, tattoo-bearing frontman–possesses a gift for irony that, while not easily gleaned, does exist. Behind him, guitars grind away, while big production by John Travis (Monster Magnet, Sugar Ray) helps create a believable street-grit feel that recalls early Guns N’ Roses. The Sex Pistols-like “Place in the Sun” is a winner, as is the full-tilt “Frontside” and the suitably nasty “Porno Star.” There are even a couple decent ballads! At its hard core, Time Bomb is that rare breed–an in-your-face, aggressive rock album that shows off a wonderful (and too rare) punk rock sensibility. –Katherine Turman
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Mike Doughty – 2013 – Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless…
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Mike Doughty
Title: Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless…
Label: Snack Bar / MegaForce
Released: Sep 17, 2013
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Sleepless
#How Many Cans’
#True Dreams of Wichita
#Super Bon Bon
#The Bitterness
#The Idiot Kings
#Monster Man
#Maybe I’ll Come Down
#Unmarked Helicopters
#So Far I Have Not Found the Science
#I Miss the Girl
#Circles
#St. Louise Is Listening
Review:
After swearing he’d never perform Soul Coughing tunes again, Mike decided to re-visit the songs after writing his ‘Book of Drugs’ memoir. His vision was to re-create the songs the way he ‘originally intended them to be’ before they got put through the Soul Coughing wringer. Essentially, this is a bunch of the Soul Coughing songs everyone knows and loves sounding more like everything Mike has put out since. And it sounds good.
The complete title is: ‘Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless How Many Cans’ True Dreams of Wichita Monster Man Mr. Bitterness Maybe I’ll Come Down St. Louise Is Listening I Miss the Girl Unmarked Helicopters The Idiot Kings So Far I Have Not Found the Science.’
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Nine Inch Nails – 2013 – Hesitation Marks
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Title: Hesitation Marks
Label: Columbia
Released: Sep 3, 2013
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Deluxe Edition
Autographed
Tracklist:
#The Eater of Dreams
#Copy of a
#Came Back Haunted
#Find My Way
#All Time Low [Explicit]
#Disappointed
#Everything
#Satellite
#Various Methods of Escape
#Running
#I Would For You
#In Two
#While I’m Still Here
#Black Noise
#Find My Way (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix)
#All Time Low (Todd Rundgren Remix) [Explicit]
#While I’m Still Here (Breyer P-Orridge ‘Howler’ Remix)
Review:
Trent is back with another album that sounds a lot like The Slip and/or the How To Destroy Angels stuff.
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Matthew Good – 2011 – Lights Of Endangered Species
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Matthew Good
Title: Lights Of Endangered Species
Label: Cobraside
Released: May 3, 2011
Packaging: Digipack
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Extraordinary Fades
#How It Goes
#Shallow’s Low
#What If I Can’t See the Stars Mildred’
#Zero Orchestra
#Non Populus
#In a Place of Lesser Men
#Set Me On Fire
#Lights of Endangered Species
Review:
Keeping with my tradition of getting the latest release right before the new one comes out. Another super solid Matt Good collection, picking up where Vancouver left off.
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Five Finger Death Punch – 2013 – The Wrong Side of Heaven & the Righteous Side Of Hell, Vol. 1
By Eric | December 23, 2013 1:00 am
Artist: Five Finger Death Punch
Title: The Wrong Side of Heaven & the Righteous Side Of Hell, Vol. 1
Label: Prospect Park
Released: Jul 30, 2013
Packaging: Jewel Case
Pack-in DVD
Release Type: Standard
Autographed
Tracklist:
#Lift Me Up [feat. Rob Halford] [Explicit]
#Watch You Bleed [Explicit]
#You [Explicit]
#Wrong Side Of Heaven [Explicit]
#Burn MF [Explicit]
#I.M.Sin [Explicit]
#Anywhere But Here [feat. Maria Brink] [Explicit]
#Dot Your Eyes [Explicit]
#M.I.N.E (End This Way) [Explicit]
#Mama Said Knock You Out [feat. Tech N9ne] [Explicit]
#Diary Of A Deadman [Explicit]
#I.M.Sin [feat. Max Cavalera] [Explicit]
#Anywhere But Here [Explicit]
#Dot Your Eyes [feat. Jamey Jasta] [Explicit]
Review:
Another typical FFDP album. Lots of people hate them, lots of people love them, and this won’t change your mind either way. The cover of “Mama Said Knock You Out” is a pretty fun little jam though!
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