BoDeans /roots rock/

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Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (vinyl rip)
total time: 40:56
year: 1986
genre: Roots Rock
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Review by William Ruhlmann
When the BoDeans appeared in 1986 with their first album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, they immediately were filed under "roots rock" (a popular term of the day) because of the Western twang in their guitars, their bouncy beat, and their simple, neo-rockabilly approach to songwriting, not to mention the production of T-Bone Burnett. They led off the album with "She's a Runaway," a song of spousal abuse and revenge that indicated a higher social consciousness than much of the rest of the album, which was typified by "Misery," in which the singer laments that his girlfriend sleeps around. At their best, on "She's a Runaway," "Fadeaway," and "Angels," the BoDeans came up with infectious riffs and made maximum use of the sweet-and-sour vocal interaction between the conventional voice of Kurt Neumann and Sammy Llanas' distinctive nasal whine. Much of the album was slight, but there was enough of an individual sound to the better material to think of the BoDeans as a band of considerable promise.

Tracks:
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01. 3:33 She's a Runaway
02. 4:20 Fadeaway
03. 3:55 Still the Night
04. 4:51 Rickshaw Riding
05. 3:29 Angels
06. 4:36 Misery
07. 3:37 The Strangest Kind
08. 4:00 Say You Will
09. 2:15 Ultimately Fine
10. 3:21 That's All
11. 3:00 Lookin' for Me Somewhere
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128 - FhG - 39 метров

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Outside Looking In (vinyl rip)
total time: 35:00
year: 1987
genre: Roots Rock
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Review by William Ruhlmann
Having established themselves as contenders with their debut album, the BoDeans looked to move on to the next level in commercial and artistic terms on their second release, bringing in producer Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and expanding beyond their roots rock style, to the extent of occasionally singing in falsetto, adding female backup vocals, and recording near-soul pop numbers like "Runaway Love." But the songwriting wasn't as impressive, and the de-emphasis on such signature sounds as Sammy Llanas' nasal voice inclined the album toward anonymity. (Sequencing didn't help either: Why bury the album's best song, the Byrds-like "What It Feels Like," as the eighth track? In fact, the album improved generally in its second half, when it sounded more like the first record.) Although they broke into the Top 100 best-sellers, they failed to break a chart or radio single, which clouded their future.

Tracks:
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01. 3:30 Dreams
02. 3:17 Pick Up The Pieces
03. 3:51 Take It Tomorrow
04. 4:11 Say About Love
05. 3:44 Don't Be Lonely
06. 3:04 Only Love
07. 2:26 What It Feels Like
08. 3:48 The Ballad Of Jenny Rae
09. 3:50 Forever Young (The Wild Ones)
10. 3:19 Someday
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128 - FhG - 33 метра

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