Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pin Points & Gin Joints
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Artist: Mighty Mighty BosstonesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-12-08
Music Label: Junketboy-Consignment
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Music Review: A suprisingly fresh and exciting album from the Bosstones
Rating: 4 Stars
After the success of 1997's "Let's Face It," the Bosstones seem to have lost something crucial, at least for a while. With the hard metal-ish edge gone following 1994's "Question the Answers" and RCA wanting some kind of successful commercial follow-up, 2000's "Pay Attention" was an album without a purpose and was more hit and miss than previous albums had been. 2002's "Jacknife to a Swan" revealed a band that was beginning to tire of themselves, the road, and the weight of their one-time commercial success, a high-energy band suddenly starting to feel the weight of all the "pin points" the title of this album refers to, and despite some high points, it might have been the band's worst disc.
Thus, when they went on hiatus, I think a lot of fans understood. I saw the band in 2001 or 2002, and when Dickey screamed, "We're not a f*in' jukebox" in response to a repeated demand to play "The Impression that I Get," I knew things were coming to an end. As a performer, he'd always drawn from the energy of the crowd, and that day he seemed honestly tired of sweaty teenagers screaming at/with him.
But then in 2007 they returned, at least for one more Throwdown, releasing "Medium Rare," a collection of unpublished music and a few new songs, and suddenly those new songs showed a lot of the old Bosstones, with songs like "Don't Worry Desmond Decker" revealing the smart playful songwriting of their best albums of the 1990s. For old-time fans like me, the unexpected freshness of the new songs was something amazing, something almost like the first time I heard the old fun tracks like "Where'd You Go?" Thus, I was excited when the first new songs ("Graffiti Worth Reading" and "Too Many Stars") were released as teasers for this album and they had something of that new/old energy in them as well.
Having picked up a copy of "Pin Points and Gin Joints" and given it a few listens, I'm pleased to say that old school fans of the Bosstones will find a lot here to like. Many of the songs will have fans singing along before they even complete their first listen-through. The choruses on songs like "You Left Right?" and "The Route that I Took" are almost "Impression"-catchy, and the performances are as good as they've ever been. Dickey's in fine shape, and although there aren't any frantic "Cowboy Coffee"s or even a "Doctor D" here, there are a lot of fine, mature Bosstones songs here, and even the low points, like the fairly listless and unfocused "Not to Me on that Night" and "Wasted Summers," don't demand that you skip through them, though they do represent the longest ignorable block of sound on the album. Thankfully, "Sister Mary" provides a different enough sound that it rescues the album in time for "It Will Be," maybe the best concert song on the album.
It is absolutely a studio album (there's no other way that "Death Valley Vipers" would ignore the act/react crowd interaction calls that could have been developed so well and would have been developed through touring and testing), though, and absolutely an album created by performers who have been making their livings in other ways since the hiatus, but for Bosstones fans, it's a better album than "Jacknife" and absolutely worth picking up.
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