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Blood on the Slacks | 
 enlarge | Artist: Golden Smog
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
List Price: $10.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 91098
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000806302
UPC: 602517140363
EAN: 0602517140363
ASIN: B000O5BP78
Release Date: April 24, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Can't Even Tie Your Own Shoes - Golden Smog, Johnson | | • | Starman - Golden Smog, Bowie, D. | | • | Look at You Now - Golden Smog, Louris | | • | Scotch on Ice - Golden Smog, Murphy | | • | Magician - Golden Smog, Johnson | | • | Without a Struggle - Golden Smog, Louris | | • | Tarpit - Golden Smog, Mascis, J. | | • | Insecure - Golden Smog, Murphy |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
With two releases in less than a year, should Golden Smog still be considered a side project? On this follow-up to Another Fine Day, the Minneapolis offshoot of the Jayhawks (Gary Louris, Marc Perlman), Soul Asylum (Dan Murphy), and Run Westy Run (Kraig Johnson) indulge in pop Anglophilia and '70s nostalgia, Mellotron, and synthesizer, as the mini-album includes covers of David Bowie's "Starman" and Dinosaur Jr.'s "Tarpit," along with originals that have the freewheeling spirit of a busman's holiday. Cuts that might not fit with their former/regular bands include "Scotch on Ice," a yearning ballad about an inhumanly compliant sex partner (device?), and "Magician," a cheesy instrumental. Yet the folkish, harmonica-laced "Without a Struggle" would have sounded just fine on a Jayhawks album, and the buoyant propulsion and lush harmonies of "Can't Even Tie Your Own Shoes" shows the band playing for keeps. (Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, an occasional Smogger, was sidelined for these sessions.) --Don McLeese
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| Customer Reviews:
 Big fun! September 9, 2007
Daniel Gunter (Seattle, WA United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a bit surprised by some of the reviews for this CD. Golden Smog began as a fun side project, and this CD is great fun. Is it a great CD? Well, no: it's not up to the quality of "Weird Tales"--but very few CDs are that strong. But the musicianship is great, the originals are strong, and the covers are interesting choices and intelligently performed. I may prefer the Golden Smog "Starman" to the original.
This CD deserves a five-star rating for "Scotch on Ice," which is a touching, melancholic ballad about the narrator's relationship with a blow-up party doll. The brief instrumental "Magician" shows that the spirit of the great Les Baxter is alive and well--and it is a very good thing to keep alive the soul of exotica.
Is the CD brief? Well, yes. But that fact does not detract from the quality of the CD itself. My guess is that the musicians either had some leftover material from "Another Fine Day" or had some leftover energy from that project. In some ways, I find this CD more enjoyable than "Another Fine Day."
If I were comparing this CD to the standard of "Weird Tales," I'd give it about a six or seven. But "Weird Tales" ranks a 10 out of 5. And measuring this CD to most of what's available these days, I think that this one is sheer, intelligent fun.
 What did you expect? August 3, 2007
The Kid (NJ, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just a quick response to those trashing this disc as "disappointing" and/or "bad sound quality and content". Are we listening to the same disc? I find it thoroughly enjoyable, perhaps with the exception of the last song "Insecure" which sounds to me like a bad (i.e.: any) Violent Femmes song. But these guys obviously don't take themselves seriously and neither do I. In fact, part of what draws me to the Smog is their ability to mix so many different genres in the same song set and pull it off so effectively. With "Insecure", they were just going for a genre that I'm not into- that's all. But in my opinion, the rest of the disc is solid- right up there with Down by the Old Mainstream and Wierd Tales, more cohesive than Another Fine Day and 1000% better than On Golden Smog (also made without Tweedy, I believe). I guess I just have a hard time understanding how a "fan" of this band could write a bad review of this disc. What exactly did you expect? Maybe you were thinking of Golden Earring?? I know my expectations as a mostly Wilco/Tweedy fan were completely exceeded. I recommend that others disregard the bad reviews, shell out the full price for the half-disc and make your own judgement. I think you'll be happy you didn't pass this one up because of some disgruntled "disappointed fans". The only reason I can't give it 5 stars (aside from the inclusion of "Insecure") is the album length (or lack thereof).
 No Real Effort ,Just Money Grubbing July 29, 2007
Artset Outset (Central Florida)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I haven't been this annoyed since I drove 2-1/2 hours to see the Jayhawks and they played for just 35 minutes. Gary Louris is all over the place collaborating with Rhett Miller, Dixie Chicks, Mark Olsen, Lucinda, etc, and working on a solo album. That might explain why there is so little effort on this release. So why do it except to extract a little more money from their gullible audience?
I love their music, but these guys have little regard for their fans. This CD is just a couple of songs that did not fit on their previous CD and a little filler trash. Pick up the few songs that are decent on one of the download sites.
A glimmer of musical hope in a world of boy band crap July 20, 2007
Christopher A. Douglas (Cincinnati)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
First of all, if you ding Golden Smog for having done a couple of covers on it, then you clearly don't understand them, their reason for getting together in the first place, and music in general. You obviously have no grasp of their history as a band. Thier first album was done ENTIRELY of covers. This group is a side project for all involved, and when you sign on for the experience, and pays your monies, you takes what you gets. This album is fun, and damn good, and the ONLY reason it doesn't get 5 stars from me, unlike Another Fine Day, is that it is that I wish it were longer. Thank god (tm) they continue to make music in an era when no talent clowns like Justin Timberlake are allowed to assault us with their particular brand of dreck, MTV kids with gnat-like attention spans want all their music on their cell phones and you can't make a dime selling CD's. 'Nuff said.
Not So Golden Smog July 17, 2007
Dana L. Sturgill (DUNLAP, IOWA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
WOW, too bad, I've liked all their other stuff. But, what was going on here. Sound is bad and compositions just don't live up to what I've grown to expect. Sorry, skip this!
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