Todd Snider - Peace Queer
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Free Music Notes for Peace Queer
Free Music Review: Snider does it again
Hit: 5 Stars
In his own clever way, Todd Snider never fails to surprise. Just when you think he might rest on his hind legs and write something innocuous, he fires back with his most confrontational and poignant record yet. He starts off with a Bo Diddley beat cradeling a metaphor between a maniacal president and someone who "Drove us off a cliff and called it 'flyin'." Snider softens the blow to CCR's "Fortunate Son" while adding to the depth of the lyrics with his hushed reading. He touches on the life awaiting soldiers who return from the war in "Cape Henry" and another character piece, "Is this thing workin?", draws a line between a high-school hallway bully and the chief executive officer through a Gil Scot Heron style recitation. The piece appears again in song form later as "Is This Thing On?". The perils of middle age parenthood inspire "Stuck on a Corner" with it's rompin' rock & roll beat that berates a daughter who "Can't Stand the sight of the car I bought her." Anyone who works in a cubicle and can never seem to satisfy everyone, this is your new anthem.
Just like George Carlin before him, Snider's funniest material is also the most truthful.
Free Music Review: Huck Finn's Continuing Journey Toward Becoming Mark Twain
Hit: 5 Stars
Once again dedicated to the proposition that the losers also have a history worth hearing, this baldly non-commercial (title, cover, distribution strategy, spoken word pieces, frequent and casual profanity, length), roughly carved yet tightly assembled little piece of heart, mind, humor and humanity qualifies for "Required Listening For Citizenship" status. The sincerity of the two vocalists on cut #3 is the clue that this is not just a toss-off, as some have suggested it is. But having said that, who could be the intended audience for such an intentionally anti-capitalist ramble-tamble folk-rock product (including spoken word pieces) as this? My theory has to do with the dissonance experienced by the "Beer Run" fan when trying to sing (speak?) along to "Is This Thing Working?/Is This Thing On?" in concert. Subversive every step of the way; thought, word and deed; past, present and future; which, friends and neighbors, he's not sure we're gonna have.Free Music Review: "Stuck on the Corner (Yeah Yeah), Of Insanity and Madness"
Hit: 5 Stars
PEACE QUEER is a small (8 tracks), quirky and quintessientially Todd Snider CD. You either like Snider's singing or you don't. I do, and he is in his usual fine form here.
The songs are about war and those who actually have to fight in them, Creedence's "Fortunate Son" among them; a song, "Is This Thing Working?", using bullies as a metaphor for big countries invading little ones (which may just strike a chord with some of you); and two songs, "Stuck on the Corner" and "Dividing the Estate" about the soullessness of working just to make money. I always like Snider's rock and roll cuts, and he has one here, "Stuck on the Corner", that is reminiscent of his "If Tommorow Never Comes" and Snider kicks a** on it with his usual intensity.
This CD really grew on me. Each time I listened to it I liked it a little better to the point that it has reached 5 star status.
Free Music Review: Awesome CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Awesome Todd Snider, I have been listening to Todd since about day one, and have seen him in concert a few times, i love his music, but on occasion have been disappointed a little in his published efforts, not this on though, I must have listened to it 10 times in a row before I moved on. It is great, it is also one of those albums that benifits from listening to the entire album, straight through, in the order it was intended. He does a couple of old standards, Cape henry, and some awesome covers, Fortunate son. The only disappointment I have is that it wasn't longer by about 10 songs, but that is usually how I feel about all of Todds albums, the guy is a modern day troubador!!!Free Music Review: Snider is great again!
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought the first TS cd based on a newspaper article about Talkin Seattle Grunge Rock Blues. I have bought all the cds since. A couple of them disappointed me. This one did not. I can not believe he is not famous. Todd keep telling us stories. I enjoy your perspective and sense of humor.