This World Is Not My Home

This World Is Not My Home Artist: Lone Justice
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 720642530429
EAN: 0720642530429
ASIN: B00000HY31


Release Date: 1999-01-12

This World Is Not My Home


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Tracks:

  1. Drugstore Cowboy
  2. Rattlesnake Mama
  3. This World Is Not My Home
  4. Working Man Blues
  5. Cottonbelt
  6. Go Away Little Boy
  7. The Train
  8. East Of Eden
  9. Ways To Be Wicked
  10. Don't Toss Us Away
  11. You Are The Light
  12. Sweet Jane (Live)
  13. I Found Love
  14. Shelter
  15. Dixie Storms
  16. Sweet, Sweet Baby (Live)
  17. Wheels (Live)

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This World Is Not My Home weds seven songs from Lone Justice's two albums (issued in 1985 and 1986) with 10 previously unreleased tracks. Of these 10, eight predate the 1985 breakup in which guitarist Ryan Hedgecock, bassist Marvin Etzioni, and drummer Don Heffington split from lead vocalist Maria McKee. That's a good thing, because the initial lineup easily outshone the too-smooth studio pros who replaced them. Souped-up covers of the traditional "Rattlesnake Mama" and Merle Haggard's "Working Man Blues," both recorded in 1983, lay bare the band's roots in the then-raging Los Angeles punkabilly scene. Etzioni's energetic riffs ricochet off the bedrock rhythm section and McKee's tremulous trill cuts with a gritty edge. But the last third of the disc, including three songs from the lackluster second album and a gimmicky cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" (with guest vocalist Bono) is noticeably weaker. --Anders Smith-Lindall

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Overview.......2006-02-24

Here, Maria's sweat flows from this combined best-of/rarities collection as if from her brow, and her heart ... hell, her heart beats like a rhythm section all its own. Check out the live version of "Sweet, Sweet Baby" for one example. For another, skip back to the early demos which lead off the disc ... or the re-mastered version of "Shelter" that seduces you into its groove. Other gems include the Bob Dylan-penned "Go Away Little Boy" (featuring Dylan and Ron Wood on guitars) and an in-concert duet of the Velvet Underground's "Sweet Jane" with U2's Bono. As good and strong as those songs are, it's the band's previously unreleased demos that prove most earth-shattering. The Maria-penned "Drugstore Cowboy," for example, is a shotgun blast of authentic cowpunk-and far, far more. An infectious psychodrama framed in a country twang, it hints at everything to come, both for Lone Justice and Maria on her own.

4 out of 5 stars Maria & Ryans Bad Karma catches up with them here.......2004-11-05

When I heard this band in the early 1980s The were HOT. The Original Rhythm section of David Harrington & Donny Willens was like a runaway locomotive. The original Lone Justice was akin to Sister Rosetta Tharp meets Creedence Clear Water & The Stones. Due to an inexperienced manager's poor advice, Ryan & Maria signed with David Geffen. U-2s Producer Jimmy Iovine who was already bought and paid for, was plamed off on Lone Justice. the rhythm section was sacked and the resulting albums were a poor excuse for what the band had previously strived so hard to sound like. The self titled first album "Lone Justice" was a milk-sop album of middle-of-the-road, wimp-rock! The only saving grace of any of the Lone Justice recordings ever released is this album "This World Is Not My Home" and it's previously unreleased cuts that feature the band in the early original form of their 1980s "Heydays." As of late, Maria Mckee can hardly carry a tune in a bucket, and it's hard to determine which is worse Ryan Hedgecock's voice or guitar playing.Neither of which were ever very good to begin with!

2 out of 5 stars If you live and die by Lone Justice............2004-10-05

....then it's possible that this collection will appeal to you. For anyone else I'd strongly recommend just picking up the band's two albums, Lone Justice and Shelter. I guess the rarities will appeal to some, but in all honesty they're just not that good. Ever since the Super Bowl debacle, Bono's appearance on an album gives a project a sense of whorishness, like a record company cash grab, which is pretty much the stench that pervades much of this album. Maria McKee has a great voice, and Lone Justice was her best platform to date to showcase that voice, but not like this.

2 out of 5 stars The Album Should Not Be In Your Home.......2003-04-16

The castoff collection sounds just like a collection of b-Sides, which is, I suppose, what it is. The album is simply not as good as LJ's albums. Maria McKee's cowgirl posturing is off putting, and her screeching will make you beg for mercy. McKee is a great singer, but you'd never know it from this album. Everything here is a bit off kilter, if you doubt, compare her version of "Way's To Be Wicked' with Tom Petty's vastly superior original. Stick with LJ's actual albums, or better yet, McKee's solo work.

3 out of 5 stars Overlong Anthology.......2003-04-08

While it often seems today as if No Depression icons Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy invented the idea of melding punk rock and country music in the early 1990s with their band Uncle Tupelo, the idea had actually been around long before that. In the 1980s, Lone Justice were perhaps the most visible practishioners of the form, managing to rise to the cusp of a breakthrough to stardom but not quite succeeding. So along comes "The World is Not My Home," to summarize the career of a band that recorded a mere two studio albums and exactly half that many hit singles.

The hit "Shelter," is here, of course. But what is particularly notable about this summation of the band's career is how few memorable songs they recorded overall. After "Shelter," the number two in this collection would probably be the rousing "I Found Love." Lead singer Maria McKee has an excellent voice, but without much in the way of strong hooks or catchy choruses, she mostly labors in vain. Even the live cover of "Sweet Jane," a duet with Bono no less, is much inferior to The Cowboy Junkies' memorably haunting version of the song that appeared a few years later.

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