Old 97's - Satellite Rides
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Artist: Old 97'sEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- King of All the World
- Rollerskate Skinny
- Buick City Complex
- Bird in a Cage
- Up the Devil's Pay
- What I Wouldn't Do
- Question
- Am I Too Late
- Weightless
- Can't Get a Line
- Designs on You
- Book of Poems
- Nervous Guy
Free Music Notes for Satellite Rides
Free Music Review: Even Heavy Things are Weightless
Hit: 5 Stars
"Do you want to mess around? / Do you want to spend the night? / 'Cept what I'm going to do / With a pair of idle hands/ They're tearing the Buick City Complex down / I think we're the only people left in town."
Ever so often an album comes along that's transcendent, weightless among the others, floating in orbit, high. That's where The Old 97's "Satellite Rides" fall, an elevated pop-rock slightly twang gem that these hometown boys from Dallas, Texas, have off and elevated their art and perfected their craft. It seems lyrics and catchy sing-a-long choruses just pour from their front man Rhett Miller and they do all over this "must be in your collection" work "Satellite Rides."
Speaking of Rhett Miller, he seems to be the forlorn lover, that falls in love easily and once there falls hard and fast crashing on the barrel head spent on the other end. He breaks his heart it seems about 13 times on each Old 97 album...once for each song. And it's good for us, the fans, because lyrically there's nothing to populate a song like heartbreak. Just listen to these lyrics, "Standing on the corner of 6th and how to forget / trying to do right by you all night Annette / You can go ahead and get married / And that'll be our secret thing / I won't tell a soul except the people in the night club where I sing / I don't want to get you all worked up / except secretly I do / I'd be lying if I said I didn't have designs on you," from "Designs on You." This song along with "King of All The World," "Rollerskate Skinny," and "Bird in A Cage" are all 97's concert standards and mind-numbingly infectious.
The Old 97's career is now a paced one in it for the long haul it seems. When Satellite Rides came out in 2001 by Elektra Records it seemed a meteoric rise from alt-country punk-a-billy rave up band to hit-friendly radio top 40 (but still rocking) gems. Well the burning up the radio waves and being ubiquitous on the pop charts never really panned out leaving us fans kind of scratching our heads. This ultimately is a good thing so we can still go to an Old 97's concert with 3,000 other fans and have the time of our lives paying $18 bones dancing in the Melt Show 6th row. Good for us but criminally insane for the band. Success can change one and thank God the 97's haven't strayed too far from their influences and roots (Johnny Cash, The Pixies, Bowie, The Beatles, and last but not least...Merle Haggard).
God bless the Old 97's making their hometown Texas folks proud. Sure you may poo poo Miller and his lyrics as back of a cocktail napkin drunken horny college boy whip-smart (those usually don't go together) but if you listen closely you too will have your favorite quips and lines, and find yourself at their concert stomping your boots, dancing like there is no tomorrow, and loving life if only for a couple hours. And if you are older and married (like Miller, Hammond, Peeples, and blazing talented guitarist Ken Bethea) stay away from "all night Annette" and live vicariously through the great music and lyrics of the 97's.
You aren't gonna wanna miss a second of "Satellite Rides." Once you stick it in your shopping cart here at Amazon and have it spinning in your CD player, your head will be spinning and the choruses will be burned in your brain for years to come. Enjoy the ride...mmw
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