Return of the Spin Doctors
After I finally got away from work, I went and picked up the new Spin Doctors release, Nice Talking to Me. I'm listening to the third track right now, and so far it's sounding really good, though I'm not picking up any really astonishing tracks yet.
The Spin Doctors are best known for their one major hit from the 1991 album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, "Two Princes". Many music afficionados would also recognize their two other singles, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", the latter of which I used to play frequently on my radio show, always dedicating it to Magdalena; actually, I used it to pick her up when we'd not yet been on our first date.
Anyway, aside from a greatest hits compilation, entitled Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective (2000), they haven't released any new material since their highly underrated release on the Universal record label, Here Comes the Bride (1999). They were on Epic Records for their previous releases (and the comp, probably released to fulfill a contract?). These guys are probably like one of my other favorite acts, The Proclaimers, who are extremely talented, (I'm guessing) put on a great, great concert, but have a small cult following.
Anyway, Here Comes the Bride was their only release on Universal, and the band broke up for quite a while, reuniting for some performances after a successful reunion show a couple years back. They went back into the studio and this new one was finally released on the Ruff Nation label yesterday. It's called Nice Talking to Me, and you can buy it from Amazon.
You know what? It's a travesty that a band like Creed, or a bunch of pretty boys like N'Sync, or a horse-faced French Canadian lunatic like Celine Dion can make millions of dollars off of over-produced crap, while a band like the Proclaimers or the Spin Doctors who make truly excellent music with intelligent lyrics and wicked sweet instrumentals have to bust their asses to try and make it in a niche market.
Anyway, I'm on track seven or eight now, and this is really a pretty solid, excellent album. I'm going to go ahead and give it a tentative recommendation; also, there's a jackalope pictured in the photo montage in the liner notes. Any band that includes a jackalope is a band you must respect and listen to, because jackalopes are awesome. I actually have the head of a jackalope, and I'm just biding my time 'til I have a place to display it.
The Spin Doctors are best known for their one major hit from the 1991 album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, "Two Princes". Many music afficionados would also recognize their two other singles, "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", the latter of which I used to play frequently on my radio show, always dedicating it to Magdalena; actually, I used it to pick her up when we'd not yet been on our first date.
Anyway, aside from a greatest hits compilation, entitled Just Go Ahead Now: A Retrospective (2000), they haven't released any new material since their highly underrated release on the Universal record label, Here Comes the Bride (1999). They were on Epic Records for their previous releases (and the comp, probably released to fulfill a contract?). These guys are probably like one of my other favorite acts, The Proclaimers, who are extremely talented, (I'm guessing) put on a great, great concert, but have a small cult following.
Anyway, Here Comes the Bride was their only release on Universal, and the band broke up for quite a while, reuniting for some performances after a successful reunion show a couple years back. They went back into the studio and this new one was finally released on the Ruff Nation label yesterday. It's called Nice Talking to Me, and you can buy it from Amazon.
You know what? It's a travesty that a band like Creed, or a bunch of pretty boys like N'Sync, or a horse-faced French Canadian lunatic like Celine Dion can make millions of dollars off of over-produced crap, while a band like the Proclaimers or the Spin Doctors who make truly excellent music with intelligent lyrics and wicked sweet instrumentals have to bust their asses to try and make it in a niche market.
Anyway, I'm on track seven or eight now, and this is really a pretty solid, excellent album. I'm going to go ahead and give it a tentative recommendation; also, there's a jackalope pictured in the photo montage in the liner notes. Any band that includes a jackalope is a band you must respect and listen to, because jackalopes are awesome. I actually have the head of a jackalope, and I'm just biding my time 'til I have a place to display it.
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