Your Favorite Music

Your Favorite Music Artist: Clem Snide
Label: Spin Art
Category: Music


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


UPC: 750078009121
EAN: 0750078009121
ASIN: B00005AG3F


Release Date: 2001-03-20

Your Favorite Music


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Tracks:

  1. The Dairy Queen
  2. Exercise
  3. Your Favorite Music
  4. African Friend
  5. Bread
  6. I Love The Unknown
  7. 1989
  8. Loneliness Finds Her Own Way
  9. Sweet Mother Russia
  10. Messiah Complex Blues
  11. Donna
  12. The Water Song

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Album Description

Second full-length CD reissued with the bonus track 'The Water Song' exclusive to this re-release. 'Sad, countryish ball ads...somewhere in between Wilco, the folky side of Pavement and Neil Young...their second album brims with mournful guitars, excellent lyrics and the greatest song ever written about a Dairy Queen'. 12 Tracks. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Slow Motion Heartbreak.......2005-02-26

This album is so pervasively laced with sorrow that even its most upbeat songs are tearjerkers. But the trick here is the saddest moments feel like the most uplifitng as we see into a heart thar seems the most familiar. While this joy breaks the spell on the subsequent album, the pleasing but less resonant "The Ghost of Fashion", "Your Favorite Music" never dispells the sensation that the sparse, but never spare, music and clever lyrics delivered in a broke, but nerver broken, voice deliver. Something for the musicians and the lyrically obssessed equally. With songs like "Loneliness Finds" and "Sweet Mother Russia", when the coffee house accoustic groups find these songs, this album will live a long time. It is a wonderful album extolling the idea of good music supporting sublime lyrics. While we are giving thumbs up to songs, let's give two more for the funny but grim "1989" and the rousing folk of "Failed Messiah Blues". This album is so good, I have hesitated to check the recent stuff because I don't want this dream to end. Moat certainly recommended for those seeking classical folk rock kicks with just a touch of punk.

5 out of 5 stars Shambling and Spectacular.......2005-01-13

Clem Snide's second album is not one of many moods, but the mood it sustains--through lyrics that toe the line between clever and smart, half-sung and half-whispered over shuffling folk arrangements--is good enough to last. Resigned, wry, always about to wind down into nothingness, the best tracks on the album transcend the unabashed jokiness of what's being sung through their sheer charm. A little play on words--"we're going to party / like it's 1989" becomes undercut by refrains that poke fun at its hollowness. On the title track, he sings "your favorite music / well it just makes you sad," as fiddles drone and the rhythm track shambles along. And that's true, but we like it anyway.

4 out of 5 stars very good.......2004-07-02

Simple, beautiful melodies with an acoustic/countrified feel and offbeat lyrics. "Dairy Queen", "Bread", and "Messiah Complex Blues" are the standouts in my opinion. Throw in a nice cover of "Donna" and you've got an impressive disc.

4 out of 5 stars Revenge of the Nerd.......2004-03-06

Eef Barzelay's voice is a 98 pound weakling of an instrument, a tuneless mewling whine that sounds like he's auditioning for a lead role in "Revenge of the Nerds VI." And yet, that voice works perfectly in the context of Clem Snide, a band that deals exclusively in morose acoustic shambling that often seems as if they're following the beat of a metronome with a dying battery. Everything here crawls at the same dirge-like pace. The exceptions are "I Love The Unknown" and "Messiah Complex Blues," both of which manage to flex some pecs while delivering a decent tune. Even during those two comparatively upbeat endeavors, however, Barzelay's voice remains front and center, bleating out wiseass lyrics (that settle for clever more often than smart) with absolutely no deviation in tone. So it's all for Eef and Eef for some - his voice is definitely not for everyone. But if you're the type who always cheers for the underdog, then make sure to give "Your Favorite Music" a fair chance.

5 out of 5 stars

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