Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: John Doe Title: For the Best of Us Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Yep Roc Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 7/25/2006 Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Styles: Americana, Roots Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 634457212725 |
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John Doe's 2005 album Forever Hasn't Happened Yet ranked among his best work, both as a solo performer and with '80s punk linchpins, X. And for the follow-up, the Los Angeles crooner has reissued a long-lost treasure: the ... more » |
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Amazon.com John Doe's 2005 album Forever Hasn't Happened Yet ranked among his best work, both as a solo performer and with '80s punk linchpins, X. And for the follow-up, the Los Angeles crooner has reissued a long-lost treasure: the 1998 EP For the Rest of Us, which he has rechristened with a supplementary five songs taken from the same recording sessions. Ever autonomous and venturesome, Doe backed up "A Step Outside" and "Let's Get Lost" with then-members of Beck's backing band, before propelling into the soul of the album: the self-deprecating "Unhappy Song," the raggedly satisfying "Bad Bad Feeling," and "This Loving Thing," cowritten with Foo Fighter Dave Grohl. The five extra tracks include the Woody Guthrie cover "Vigilante Man," and "Criminal," where Doe's voice--one of rock music's best--tells of the forlorn and those who catch them. And only Exene Cervenka is absent from the rabid "Come Home," which plays more like a leftover from Wild Gift than any solo session. --Scott Holter Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsGreat, intense mid-1990s set R. Hutchinson | a world ruled by fossil fuels and fossil minds | 10/13/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "The solo records released by John Doe beginning in 1990 deserve much better than they have received in terms of audience size and critical reception. KISSINGSOHARD (1995) and FREEDOM IS... (2000 -- see my review) especially, are just fantastic, among the best records of their day. The 10 cuts included in FOR THE BEST OF US were recorded in 1995 and 1996, soon after KISSINGSOHARD. Six were originally released as an EP called FOR THE REST OF US (1998), and now four more tracks from the sessions have been added. It's still short, but it more than makes up with quality what it lacks in quantity -- this music is every bit as good as what's on those 1995 and 2000 long-players.
Doe's thing is intense emotion, and he channels it through a great voice and a great, simple rock band. (I saw the John Doe Thing live in Salt Lake City in 2000, the FREEDOM IS... tour -- awesome show!) There's continuity with X, but Doe without Exene Cervenka is darker, more anguished, and dare I say it, more intense. I guarantee you would want to hear the rest of this disc if you heard "The Unhappy Song," which features a great guitar riff that sounds like it came from U2's THE JOSHUA TREE (don't worry, it's far closer to punk than Bono & Co.!). "This Loving Thing" is a beautiful ballad co-authored by Dave Grohl. And the set closes with a very relevant, blistering rendition of Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man." Check out FOR THE BEST OF US if want music with a visceral kick, music that cuts through the fakery, lies and evil of America in 2006!" |
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