New Deal

New Deal Artist: The Waco Brothers
Label: Bloodshot Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 744302008523
EAN: 0744302008523
ASIN: B00006L3HJ


Release Date: 2002-10-22

New Deal


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Tracks:

  1. Poison
  2. No Heart
  3. In The Honky Tonk Shadows
  4. Johnson To Jones
  5. Blink Of An Eye
  6. New Moon
  7. Better Everyday
  8. Just No Way
  9. AFC Song
  10. New Deal Blues
  11. I'm A Ghost
  12. The Lie

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Amazon.com

Frankenstein's monster was made from spare parts and seemed harmless in the lab, but he caused serious havoc when brought to life. Similarly, the Waco Brothers--Jon Langford and his merry men, that is--comprise a loutish lot of middle-aged punks drunk on socialism and old country music. They make merely adequate albums. But they rarely fail to deliver thrillingly loud, happily sloppy concerts that charge from one anarchic anthem to the next, with barely a breath between. <I>New Deal</I> is the band's sixth disc and it ranks no better than average among them; nonetheless, at least two of its tunes--"Poison" and "AFC Song"--seem likely to become staples of those stomp-and-shout live shows. The former is a rollicking rant against narrow minds and conservative politics, the latter a hyperactive shuffle with the refrain "Alcohol, freedom, and a country song / I've been waiting way too long." If you'll drink to that, then turn up the stereo, kick up your heels, and stick your thumb in the eye of the nearest authority figure. <I>--Anders Smith Lindall</I>

Album Description

Over the course of the past eight years, the Wacos have produced a body of work that is consistently innovative and wildly entertaining, loud and literate, personal and political. Few bands can so fearlessly embrace such a broad range of influences, throw them into the Waco-izer, and emerge with fresh ways to gleefully and despondently tell it like it is---the warts, the injustice, and the crushed dreams--without batting an eye or spilling a drop

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I LOVE THESE GUYS! THEY ROCK!.......2003-04-15

I love the Waco Brothers. They are just some great, no frills rock and roll. I also love WACO WORLD and ELECTRIC WACO CHAIR. I know a lot of "purists" love the older discs. I dig those too but these newer cds have better songs and the better production does their music justice. Big thumbs up. I feel lucky to know their music. Am I gushing enough for you?

4 out of 5 stars One of their better albums.......2002-11-02

The Waco Brothers -- comprised of Mekons frontman Jon Langford and veterans of various Chicago industrial and rock bands -- almost singlehandedly brought cowpunk back to life in the mid-'90s. Their first album was a nice hot blast from the forges of twangcore, mixing feedback with leftie politics. The next couple of albums wore thin, though, and seem a bit obsessed with the idea and seemingly rowdy image of "insurgent country," at the expense of the music itself. This latest album is a welcome return to form... Although some cowpunk tedium persists, this disc also has several well-written, catchy tunes, including the languid, bluesy "New Moon," and "Just No Way," both of which betray a strong (and welcome!) Stones-y streak in the current Wacos lineup. I still can't make up my mind whether Jon Langford is a "distinctive" performer, or if he just plain bugs me, but I was swept along by a couple of his tunes, particularly "I'm A Ghost," which has a nice chorus, amid the deceptively Country Top 40-ish fiddles and pedal steel. A lot of their lyrics and musical motifs are still simply too blunt, and I prefer their slower tunes, but this is a pretty solid album. Less hurried, aggro and simplistic than other WacoBro efforts. Definitely worth checking out!

5 out of 5 stars

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