Another Fine Day | 
 enlarge | Artist: Golden Smog
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 20008
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 000602902
UPC: 602498890431
EAN: 0602498890431
ASIN: B000FKO3AI
Release Date: July 18, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | You Make It Easy | | • | Another Fine Day | | • | 5-22-02 | | • | Long Time Ago | | • | Corvette | | • | Beautiful Mind | | • | Listen Joe | | • | Cure For This | | • | Hurricane | | • | Strangers | | • | Frying Pan Eyes | | • | Gone | | • | Never Felt Before | | • | I Can | | • | Think About Yourself |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Jeff Tweedy might carry the name recognition, but the rest of his band-on-the-side carries the mail on the fourth release from this Midwest all-star group. Though the Wilco leader teams with the Jayhawks' Gary Louris on a pair of nimble pop songs--the elegantly strummed "Listen Joe" and Kinks cover "Strangers"--it's Louris who's clearly at the head of the class with self-assured vocals ("Another Fine Day," "Think About Yourself"), lush harmonies ("Long Time Ago") and those unmistakable guitar leads ("Frying Pan Eyes"). Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy's obligatory rocker "Hurricane" is a high point, as is the album's lead track "You Make It Easy," which has Kraig Johnson warbling over a thumping piano lead and chunky fuzz guitar. But most welcome among the 15 songs are two contributions from Louris's fellow Jayhawk Marc Perlman: the refreshing "Corvette" and "Cure for This," a '60s-speckled pop song sung by Muni Loco, the wife of producer Paco Loco and the first female to grace a recording by Golden Smog. --Scott Holter
Album Description
It might sound like hype, but as hype nips at your ears every day from every corner, who gives a damn? You're smart. Your BS detector is strong; take this missive with a grain of salt, but don't talk yourself out of opening your ears to this mix-by-one-band-how-can-this-be-one-band? that fell from the skies of Puerto Santa Maria, Spain and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Start with Gary Louris and Kraig Jarret Johnson's "You Make It Easy." A breezy love song about breezy commitment. Listen. To that solo. To those harmonies. Dare yourself not to sing along. Try to play "name the influences" and you will have fun but you will fail. Then check out "Hurricane," and hear Dan Murphy, singing his guts out and having, like the title track he co-penned says, "another fine day." Dig Louris and Jeff Tweedy's "Listen Joe," and how they sing to themselves and a long-gone friend, "surprise, surprise, everyone dies." Listen. To what every new breed that comes along calls "old school," to sounds baked into these guys since the days of vinyl. Feel the embers of all the mystics, all the Gram Parsons and Eagles and Zeppelin and Buzzcocks and Flaming Lips and Gorillaz (Kraig's fave of the moment) records and all the rest that they've ingested. Truly, these cats have forgotten more records than the rest of us have sold to the used record store. "Don't it blow your mind like the first time? The dream is never over," they ask, on "Corvette," with the exuberance of high-schoolers playing together in the garage for the first of many times. Listen. To "Corvette". Then listen to Louris's "Gone". They have been through death and love and war and all the other vagaries of middle age in these new Middle Ages, and this is the sound of them coming out the other side - or at least trying to come out the other side - with friendship and rock `n' roll as their guides.
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| Customer Reviews:
 This One Stinks April 25, 2008
K. Ward (Spring Tx)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved the first few real Golden Smog albums and they lead me to discover The Jayhawks and Wilco. I am very happy with all the albums by these two groups. Another Fine Day is just a big dump, barely one and a half decent songs and the rest of the CD is flushable. I'm gonna go auction it off for $2 if i can get that much. Lotsa talent here so I dont know what happened but Do Not Buy this album.
This one goes to the used CD store... October 14, 2006
K. Holland (CA United States)
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I had such high hopes for this one! However, after about a dozen tries, I cannot stand this music. It is uninteresting and possibly contains the worst songwriting and lyrics I have heard in years. Or maybe it's the schmultzy music that is so unbelievably weak. Whatever it is, it has no magic, no risk, no intelligence.
 Somewhat disappointed September 14, 2006
Gary Hosmer (Marietta, GA USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Maybe a few more listens will help, but this album reminds me in a lot of ways of Bubble Gum music from the late 60's. Way too cute. After eight years I expected a lot more.
 Subjectively speaking, a great disk. Period. September 11, 2006
M. Sedgwick (Biloxi, MS United States)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Okay, these user reviews are plagued by a high degree of subjectivity, though what is objective about music? Plainly speaking, after listening to AFD for four weeks now, I believe this disc is quite exceptional both in its variety, the quality of songwriting, and overall production. This was my first exposure to Golden Smog, but since I have explored (that is, purchased) "Weird Tales." I just don't have the same feeling toward that disc as I do for AFD. For the record, I am not overly enamored with Wilco's recorded output, and had no previous exposure to the Jayhawks. Another Fine Day, then, needs no antecedents to make a salient musical impression. I am not given to hyperbole, but can best sum up my feeling about AFD this way: I have already downloaded it in its entirety from ITMS, but am now ordering two physical discs from Amazon--one for my 24-year old son, and one just for posterity.
OUTSTANDING on a number of levels... September 4, 2006
freereign (Ocean of Corn, MN)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
First thing I absolutely ADORE about this CD is that it sounds like a mix-tape. The songs are almost all collaborations, but bear the markings of the person who brought the demo to the sessions or such thing. Gary Louris is in fine voice as ever, and to his credit, really doesn't bring songs that evoke a Jayhawks-styled sound. Craig Johnson really has the hooks and arrangements going, with a POP-tastic track "5-22-02" really standing out (with its Suburbs-like horn vamping). Just try getting that one out of your head...
Tweedy actually plays a more minor role in this set, but the songs here are all so strong it suggests they really had a lot of material to choose from. If you listen to this without distraction, you'll catch a lot of the nuances and be hooked right away. If you listen once and think little of it, just spin it again the next day or so and after a few listens you'll find it very delightful. Timing-wise it was perfect: Released in the early days of summer, as it has a bright, cheerful, summery feel to it. Watch for an EP of some of the other "out takes" in coming months, and if you have a chance, catch their tour in September '06--I saw the Minneapolis show and was blown away at their set...
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