Weird Tales

Golden Smog - Weird Tales

Weird Tales
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Artist: Golden Smog
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-10-13
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
  1. To Call My Own
  2. Looking Forward To Seeing You
  3. Until You Came Along
  4. Lost Love
  5. If I Only Had A Car
  6. Jane
  7. Keys
  8. I Can't Keep From Talking
  9. Reflections On Me
  10. Making Waves
  11. White Shell Road
  12. Please Tell My Brother
  13. Fear of Falling
  14. All The Same To Me
  15. Jennifer Save Me

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Music Review: A little-known gem
Rating: 5 Stars

Like one of the other reviewers here, I bought this CD on a whim back in 2001, attracted to it because of its interesting cover. I gave it a listen and liked it quite a bit, but was not entirely sure about it. I kept listening to it--and it improved on each listen. With Gary Louris, Jeff Tweedy, and others, Golden Smog combined several considerable talents who proved, in some respects, to be superior to either the Jayhawks or Wilco. On this CD (which is some respects different from the other Golden Smog CDs), the influence of the Byrds, the Beatles, and Dylan can be heard--but there are some heavier rocking songs, including the powerful "White Shell Road" with its intense guitar work (and strange, brilliant lyrics).

I don't want to shortchange any of the songs on this great CD, but I think that three in particular deserve mention. In the order of their appearance, the first is "Until You Came Along," which was long my favorite on the CD. This is an anthemic song about love found at long last, and it calls out to be played loud loud LOUD. The second (in order of appearance) is "Fear of Falling," which features extraordinarily fine lyrics. It opens with the lovely, plaintive lines "I am not a shadow; I am flesh and blood. / Meet me in the middle if you think you could, / If you think you could." This is a song of great tenderness. Finally, "Jennifer Save Me" joins sad, gentle lyrics and a lovely melody to interesting sonic textures.

But I can't really shortchange the other songs on this CD. I've been listening to it as I write this review, and I wonder how I can avoid writing about the great guitar in "If I Only Had a Car" or the anguish of "Making Waves" or the sad vision of a relationship falling apart in "Reflections on Me." These are all great songs.

Here's a testament to how fine this CD is: I'm 47, typically a fan of the blues (Hound Dog Taylor, Elmore James, J. B. Hutto, Lil' Ed Williams, and the like). I love this CD. So does my 20-year-old daughter, who's a fan of Nirvana, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, and the like. If we both like the CD, it has to be doing something right!
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Description of Weird Tales

15 tracks. With Jeff Tweedy. Green-tint jewel box is scuffed.
Featuring members of the Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Run Westy Run, and Wilco, Golden Smog has in the past felt like a typical side gig: for die-hard fans only. Not anymore. Weird Tales is inspired top to bottom, whether on the four-song streak of ragged rock that fronts the disc or the singular moments that follow, like the strangely soul-funky "Keys," Jeff Tweedy's Woody Guthrie-ized "Please Tell My Brother," or Kraig Johnson's "Making Waves," a crushing story of suicide behind the bathroom door. Including new Smogger Jody Stephens (ex-Big Star drummer), Weird Tales is an emotion-rich trip of Midwestern rock tones, loaded with both individual spirit and collective vision. If they keep this up, we might have to start calling them a real band. --Neal Weiss

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