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| September 2004. |
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Sept. 7th, 2004 - Yes,
yes, late to the game again ... been grooving to the max with the
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Until today, I had it filled with what might be called a
Juliana Hatfield mega-block - 51 songs, in all: the Blake Babies old and sorta-new
("Disappear" has re-emerged as a fave anthem of mine), the one-off Some
Girls, plus heaps of Juliana on her own.
is, hands down, my album of the year thus far. It has it
all: jangly guitars, irresistible melodies and lyrics that delve deeper
than your average pop song (see "Because We Love You"). At the
same time, I've fallen in love - again - with Juliana's sublime
, from 2000. An overlooked gem, it is a bit more
laid-back than
, but no less powerful. "Cry in the Dark" makes the heart ache ...
of course, to quote the bard-ess, "a heart that hurts is a heart that
works." Anyway - onward to September's Album of the Month - Steve Earle's hard-hitting , which I've been cranking up in the car. Folks who've visited the site through the years may recall that, once upon a time, we had a Steve Earle section - some of it is now available in The OGC Compendium (thanks to all who purchased it, by the way). The reason we took the section down had nothing to do with Earle's music, just time: there's not enough of it in the day to get everything I want to do done. I'm as much a fan as ever, in other words. is a hard-hitting, politically charged collection of songs that should sate anyone who leans left (as I do), the title tune and profane "F the CC" especially. And, too, the Emmylou Harris duet "Comin' Around" reverberates through soul. No, it's not his best work, but the highs here match the best he's done. And because I am a fairly political person, I will overlook the few flawed songs. On other matters - as I mentioned, I do lean left. Hence the newsfeed on the left. David Brock's website does an excellent job of collecting the misinformation (and outright lies) many political pundits and reporters pass on as truth. (So does his recent book, .) Sometimes, yes, it goes a tad overboard ... but what the hell?
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