Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
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Artist: Mike DoughtyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-05-03
Music Label: Ato Records
Soundtracks:
- Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well
- Unsingable Name
- Madeline And Nine
- Busting Up A Starbucks
- White Lexus
- American Car
- Tremendous Brunettes
- I Hear The Bells
- Sunken-Eyed Girl
- Grey Ghost
- His Truth Is Marching On
- Your Misfortune
Music reviews of Haughty Melodic
Music Review: Small Rock, All Grown Up
Rating: 4 Stars
Mike Doughty has indeed made a wonderful album. It is full of catchy melodies, quirky lyrics, and very suitable production with a full band. Doughty's songwriting style is unique, as is his straightforward, moody and murky voice. In the right circumstances, his voice is so perfectly fitting for the music he writes. He also has an ability to write somewhat simple melodies which snag in your brain, to a point where you may find yourself singing them offhandedly. "Unsingable Name" is perhaps the most infections of the set, very melodic, and very beautiful. Easily caught. "American Car" really gets in there too.
"From the Bottom of a Well" has come a long way from the musically intriguing but monotone demo of 2002. Other songs which appeared on the limited "Smofe & Smang" CD are brought to life here, too. "Madeline and Nine," "Grey Ghost," and "Sunkeneyed Girl," all wonderful when they first were played acoustic, have opened into something further and different within a band setting. I am still hard pressed to choose which versions of these songs I prefer.
One song that sticks out from the bunch artistically is "His Truth is Marching On." It is the one song of subtlety- not particularly enticing upon the first listen, but after awhile it really gets you. We have seen this special sort of songwriting before, with "Down on the River by the Sugar Plant" from his last release, Rockity Roll. Doughty has an ability to transcend the sort of fun-laced music he seems most prone to writing. When he does, the result is a song or two which seem to speak further and more capably than the rest. We hear it also in "White Lexus," too.
The only reason this CD does not get a fifth star is because of two songs which are skipped every time: "Tremendous Brunettes" and "I Hear the Bells." For some reason, I have never taken a liking to them. "Tremendous Brunettes" is melodically and musically bland in contrast to the other songs on the CD. "I Hear the Bells" is reminiscent of christmas-type songwriting, and is not particularly appealing to the ears. They seem like fragment song ideas fleshed out too far, or taken somewhere they ought not to be. We have seen this from Doughty before too, with the sad sacrifice of the wonderful "Lisa Ling and Lucy Liu" into the mediocre "27 Jennifers."
Key Tracks:
"From the Bottom of a Well," "Unsingable Name," "White Lexus," "His Truth is Marching On"
Description of Haughty Melodic
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Finally, the world is treated to Mike Doughty's first "full-band" album since Soul Coughing disbanded in 1998. Doughty has clearly morphed from hyperactive ironic hipster to a world-class songwriter with lyrics that are funny ("I want to run away and join the office") and self-deprecating but never emo ("All my life I've been slow and senseless/Not struck dumb I'm just dumb that's all"). If you're looking for faults you can always find them, and to be sure some of the playing is overly "pro" and not as funky as M.D. live. The perfect pedal steel touches throughout are actually icing on this cake, and the drummer dude from N.E.R.D.'s metronomic bashing's hardly a bummer. The songs on the album will be familiar to fans who've seen him live, and thanks to Haughty being recorded over a long stretch of time (the songs themselves honed that way too) it has a "greatest hits" feel to it: all killer, no filler. --Mike McGonigal
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