Todd Snider - Peace Queer
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Artist: Todd SniderBrand: Todd
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Music Label: Mri Associated
Soundtracks:
- Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)
- The Ballad Of Cape Henry
- Fortunate Son
- Is This Thing Working?
- Stuck On The Corner (Prelude To A Hear Attack)
- Dividing The Estate (A Heart Attack)
- Ponce Of The Flaming Peace Queer
- Is This Thing On?
Free Music Notes for Peace Queer
Free Music Review: Ramshackle music with an angry, forlorn smile
Hit: 4 Stars
This album (more like an EP) finds Todd Snider in a more experimental mood than usual. It also finds him angry and discontent but laughing to keep from crying. Peace Queer starts out with a sparse, upbeat twang-hop tune, Mission Accomplished, that sets the tone for the rest of the music. With it's raggedy drum beat front and center, the song is obviously a reference to our past president and Snider's frustration with said president's glib denial of reality. My favorite line is typical of Snider's ability to transpose and invert cliches - "I don't know, but I've been told - might need a little fox in an atheist hole.." (A play on the "there are no atheists in foxholes" saying.)
He then moves into a more earnest tune, "Cape Henry," which is a soulful, bluesy tune that beautifully and cleverly chronicles the hypocrisy of war dating back to the founding of our country (Cape Henry was a battle site in the Revolutionary War.) From there, he covers CCR's anti-war classic "Fortunate Son" which is also given a straightforward treatment.
Next, Snider gets a bit gratuitous with a spoken work version of "Is This Thing Working" which receives musical accompaniment on the last track of the album. The song/poem is morality tale of sorts about a schoolyard bully and seemingly another allusion to Snider's disenfranchisement with American foreign policy. I actually enjoy the spoken word version and take pleasure in the rhythm and humor Snider employs in the delivery. It won't make the iPod cut, however, when importing the album. The musical version is a well-produced, rollicking tune that will be a favorite on the iPod, though.
His spoken word is followed by "Stuck on the Corner" which is a fast-tempo garage rock anthem that pokes fun at the empty consumerism of today's world.
"Dividing the Estate" might be my favorite track on the album. Once again, Snider uses metaphor to rail against the loss of the American dream, but in a deliciously ragged, bluesy sauce.
Lastly, Snider gets a touch self-involved for my tastes on "Ponce of the Flaming Peace Queer." The track starts out as pretty, melody-driven instrumental track but ends with Snider self-consciously acknowledging (in direct, spoken word) that he's become a more opinionated songwriter of late. I could have lived without this, but the cleverness and creativity of the album as a whole make this wholly forgivable.
With it's clever songs, experimental nature, and sometimes raucous nature, Peace Queer is definitely worth picking up. I've also found it's a good introduction to Snider for those less familiar.
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Hailed by the NY Times as 'the troubadour for our times, an inventive cross of Dylan and Kristofferson, with the right dash of Tom Petty thrown in,' Snider writes songs that get people talking. Peace Queer no doubt follows suit, as the 8-song effort comments on the world around Snider's East Nashville home. Political, social, economic, moral-take whatever themes you want from the lyrical storytelling, Snider prefers his intentions remain less clearly definedCountry Music CDs
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