Blood on the Slacks

Golden Smog - Blood on the Slacks

Blood on the Slacks
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Artist: Golden Smog
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
  1. Can't Even Tie Your Own Shoes
  2. Starman
  3. Look at You Now
  4. Scotch on Ice
  5. Magician
  6. Without a Struggle
  7. Tarpit
  8. Insecure

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Free Music Review: Big fun!
Hit: 5 Stars

I'm a bit surprised by some of the reviews for this CD. Golden Smog began as a fun side project, and this CD is great fun. Is it a great CD? Well, no: it's not up to the quality of "Weird Tales"--but very few CDs are that strong. But the musicianship is great, the originals are strong, and the covers are interesting choices and intelligently performed. I may prefer the Golden Smog "Starman" to the original.

This CD deserves a five-star rating for "Scotch on Ice," which is a touching, melancholic ballad about the narrator's relationship with a blow-up party doll. The brief instrumental "Magician" shows that the spirit of the great Les Baxter is alive and well--and it is a very good thing to keep alive the soul of exotica.

Is the CD brief? Well, yes. But that fact does not detract from the quality of the CD itself. My guess is that the musicians either had some leftover material from "Another Fine Day" or had some leftover energy from that project. In some ways, I find this CD more enjoyable than "Another Fine Day."

If I were comparing this CD to the standard of "Weird Tales," I'd give it about a six or seven. But "Weird Tales" ranks a 10 out of 5. And measuring this CD to most of what's available these days, I think that this one is sheer, intelligent fun.

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With two releases in less than a year, should Golden Smog still be considered a side project? On this follow-up to Another Fine Day, the Minneapolis offshoot of the Jayhawks (Gary Louris, Marc Perlman), Soul Asylum (Dan Murphy), and Run Westy Run (Kraig Johnson) indulge in pop Anglophilia and '70s nostalgia, Mellotron, and synthesizer, as the mini-album includes covers of David Bowie's "Starman" and Dinosaur Jr.'s "Tarpit," along with originals that have the freewheeling spirit of a busman's holiday. Cuts that might not fit with their former/regular bands include "Scotch on Ice," a yearning ballad about an inhumanly compliant sex partner (device?), and "Magician," a cheesy instrumental. Yet the folkish, harmonica-laced "Without a Struggle" would have sounded just fine on a Jayhawks album, and the buoyant propulsion and lush harmonies of "Can't Even Tie Your Own Shoes" shows the band playing for keeps. (Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, an occasional Smogger, was sidelined for these sessions.) --Don McLeese

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