Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
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Artist: Mike DoughtyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Music Label: Ato Records
Soundtracks:
- Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
- Unsingable Name
- Madeline and Nine
- Busting Up a Starbucks
- White Lexus
- American Car
- Tremendous Brunettes
- I Hear the Bells
- Sunken-Eyed Girl
- Grey Ghost
- His Truth Is Marching On
- Your Misfortune
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Hit: 5 Stars
I was a fan of Soul Coughing, but would have never called them one of my favorites, I guess more than anything I came to find it annoying after a while. I've liked M. Doughty's solo stuff, but this record really has sort of blown me away. It's not Soul Coughing, not at all, and I guess that makes sense. After a few dozen listens I've found this is a record you listen to all the way through, no need to fast forward -(though I could stand it on 'His Truth,' but that's way at the end of the record so no bother) this is simply a pretty great record filled with one excellent song after the other. It's a mature record, a fun record, a sad record, a record that pulses and breathes and reaches out to you and pulls you in. The more uptempo songs like 'Sunken Eyed Girl, Unsingable Name, and Looking at the World,' are a good time and stand repeated heated listenings and sing-alongs, but the record finds it's emotional center in the mid tempo songs like- 'Grey Ghost,' -which I think may be about Jeff Buckley, 'White Lexus,' 'Your Misfortune,' and 'I Hear the Bells,' and 'american car.' There's a sort of desperation and humanity here that driven through Doughty's gravelly vocals works so well. This is a record that sounds great, and I've found if you spend some time with it, it will touch you as well. Not touch like a priest would touch, but the good touch. what else could you ask for? Sort of surprised to find out he's a damn good singer songwriter, and though he might not be so obviously working to turn a clever phrase as often as he did with SC, it turns out he doesn't need to rely on that boho/white Gil Scott- trip thing, that there's a lot more to him besides clever word play. I imagine that if you stream some of the mid-tempo songs above you'll probably fall in love.
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Finally, the world is treated to Mike Doughty's first "full-band" album since Soul Coughing disbanded in 1998. Doughty has clearly morphed from hyperactive ironic hipster to a world-class songwriter with lyrics that are funny ("I want to run away and join the office") and self-deprecating but never emo ("All my life I've been slow and senseless/Not struck dumb I'm just dumb that's all"). If you're looking for faults you can always find them, and to be sure some of the playing is overly "pro" and not as funky as M.D. live. The perfect pedal steel touches throughout are actually icing on this cake, and the drummer dude from N.E.R.D.'s metronomic bashing's hardly a bummer. The songs on the album will be familiar to fans who've seen him live, and thanks to Haughty being recorded over a long stretch of time (the songs themselves honed that way too) it has a "greatest hits" feel to it: all killer, no filler. --Mike McGonigalAlternative Rock Music CDs
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