Slobberbone - Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today
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Artist: SlobberboneEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-07-25
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- Meltdown
- Placemat Blues
- Trust Jesus
- Gimme Back My Dog
- That Is All
- Josephine
- Lazy Guy
- Bright Eyes Darkened
- Lumberlung
- Magnetic Heaven
- Some New Town
- Pinball Song
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Free Music Review: A Brilliant Mix of Alt-Country, Punk, and Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
Slobberbone's 2000 release, "Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today" is a wonderful mix of alt-country, good old southern rock, a dash of punk, and a splash of traditional country twang that results in a solid and thoroughly enjoyable listen from start to finish.
This fantastic album kicks off with an alt-country feeling "Meltdown", with its textured and layered acoustic guitar, mandolin, and fiddle. "Placemat Blues" is a rollicking blue-collar punk rocker. "Gimme Back My Dog" is a simple, yet funny and enjoyable ode to that ex-girlfriend or ex-wife. The album's epic song, "Josephine" tells us the story of the social outcast from high-school who longs for that popular girl in high-school, but just ends up make a complete fool of himself. To lighten things up a bit, "Lazy Guy" follows, another toe tapping country-influenced ditty. My favorite tune on the album, "Lumberlung" is one of those great songs to play on a long drive on a quite back country rode; it is one of those visual songs that I can play a few times in row and never tire of if. The album closes on the upbeat bar room inspired sing and drink along, the aptly named "Pinball Song".
"Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today" should obviously appeal to fans of Drive By Truckers and Uncle Tupelo. I also believe listeners of The Pogues, Dinosaur Jr, The Clash, The Offspring, Nirvana, The White Stripes, and even alt-country musicians such as Charlie Robison and Jack Ingram would find the album enjoyable.
Of the twelve tracks on the album, only two qualify as average to above average "That Is All" and "Some New Town". Don't take this the wrong way; there isn't a truly bad or even mediocre song on the entire CD. Therefore, if I could give half stars, "Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today" would get 4.5. Since there are no half-star, Slobberbone gets the benefit of my doubt and receives a well deserved Amazon.com 5 stars.
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Perhaps the hardest-working band in the Lone Star State, this Denton, Texas, four-piece's annual 250-plus live show agenda has molded them tighter than a No. 6 train in Manhattan rush hour. On Slobberbone's third album, songwriter Brent Best still prays to a homespun punk-rock confessional with both ears equally entrenched in Texas twang, his most intimate stories parlayed into a country-tinged compound of blustery barn-burners and back-porch ballads. The band has matured, slamming the door on their ever-charming sloppiness while turning to pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, even horns. The 12-string and fiddle symmetry of "Meltdown" slams into "Placemat Blues," which borrows a riff from the Replacements' rocker, "I.O.U." (from Pleased to Meet Me, recorded at the same Ardent Studios in Memphis). But the rest of the way, Slobberbone keeps it more refined ("Josephine"), even elegant at times ("Magnetic Heaven"), without ever losing that Southern boy sense of humor ("Gimme Back My Dog," "Pinball Song"). --Scott HolterCountry Music CDs
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