- "It's a shame I have to wait until the ending, everything I've yet to break is surely bending, every vow I ever take is just pretending, that this mess I make is worth defending." The studio version of "Next Time" is a solid song from the under appreciated "Everything To Everyone" album. "Everything To Everyone" is the album that had that song about chimps. In conjunction with the release of the album, the Ladies recorded a live in studio DVD featuring acoustic performances of eleven of the album's fourteen songs. Six of those live recordings were released as the "Everything Acoustic- EP". The live acoustic version of "Next Time" is amazing. Save the "Rock Spectacle" (pronounced "Spec-tak") live version of "Break Your Heart" this is the best live recording I've ever heard from the band (and I've heard more than my fair share). Steven Page's vocals are spectacular and balanced perfectly with Kevin Hearn's piano. The backing vocals/harmonies, particularly those of bassist Andy Creeggan, are gorgeous. "Next Time" never speeds up in tempo, in fact it slows down for the bridge, yet the intensity of the song consistently swells throughout. The live version of "Next Time" is worth seeking out.
2. This Time Of Year- Better Than Ezra
- "Well there's a football in the air, across a leaf blown field, yeah and there's your first car on the road, and the girl you'd steal." "This Time Of Year" is a nice acoustic song from Better Than Ezra's debut album"Deluxe". It's the album that put the band on the map with the mega-smash "Good" (dat's right!). I can vividly remember how I acquired "Deluxe". It was the summer of '95 and I was the foreman of a painting crew...not that I had ever picked up a paint brush prior to that summer. Working in Delaware, Wilmington's WSTW 93.7 FM offered the best variety of modern hits (though I was never quite comfortable that they played a version of TLC's "Waterfalls" that edited out Left Eye's rap verse). Listening to WSTW one morning we heard the announcement that they were giving away free tickets at a promotional spot nearby to see Firehouse at the Big Kahuna (a.k.a Kahunaville). For those that don't remember, Firehouse was the hair-metal band that sang "Love of a Lifetime". You can only imagine our excitement. I immediately called for a lunch break even though it couldn't have been past 10:30 in the morning. When we met up with the "prize patrol" (no idea if they called themselves that) they had to inform us that we couldn't have tickets because we were under 21. My one friend/painting colleague Ryan told them that we "just bolted from our jobs!" (true), "could be fired!" (doubtful) and "we don't care because we want to see Firehouse!" (flat out lie). They felt bad enough to let us each have a CD, and "Deluxe" has been mine ever since.
3. Only Happy When It Rains- Garbage
- "You want to hear about my new obsession, I'm riding high upon a deep depression, I'm only happy when it rains. Pour some misery down on me." I remember "Only Happy When It Rains" for being a popular radio song in the late 90s but I mostly remember it for being used in an episode of the X-files. The episode had nothing to do with the song so maybe what I really remember is the episode. That episode, "Terms of Endearment" from season six concerns demon fetal harvesting. Yes, demon fetal harvesting. This demon guy, who Mulder suspects could be the devil himself, keeps spawning demon babies- complete with horns and a tail. He keeps knocking up different women but the poor guy just wants a normal baby. At the end of the day the joke is on him when a demon woman ("demon woman, woman demon") uses him so she can have a demon baby. A few years ago one of my best friends had a daughter- I asked if she was born with a vestigial tail and got no response. I found that kind of suspicious. In any event I read on the Interweb that Garbage is working on a new album. Good to know.
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