Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Badlivers Title: Blood & Mood Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sugarhill Original Release Date: 2/22/2000 Release Date: 2/22/2000 Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Blues, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Americana, Bluegrass, Classic Country, Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative, Traditional Folk, Progressive, Progressive Rock, Roots Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 015891390529 |
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The Stanley Brothers on LSD? Banjo-driven hip-hop? Though the Bad Livers have defied categorization for more than a decade--since their early days of transforming Iggy Pop and Metallica tunes into bluegrass breakdowns--her... more » |
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Amazon.com The Stanley Brothers on LSD? Banjo-driven hip-hop? Though the Bad Livers have defied categorization for more than a decade--since their early days of transforming Iggy Pop and Metallica tunes into bluegrass breakdowns--here they push the technological envelope like never before. The result is a vibrantly mutant strain of mountain music, one that finds electric guitars, rhythm loops, and country-fried samples reinforcing the creative interplay of frontman Danny Barnes and bassist-sidekick Mark Rubin. Most audaciously, "I'm Losing" opens with a ferocity that leaves most punk rock in shreds, before resolving itself into a mad honky-tonk medley of Buck Owens, Tammy Wynette, and Merle Haggard (with some gorgeous steel guitar from producer Lloyd Maines). From the surprisingly melodic lilt of the ominously titled "Death Trip" to the bluesy lament of "Love Songs Suck," the music proceeds organically, by instinct rather than calculation--like blood and mood. --Don McLeese Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThey just keeping evolving! Rob Damm | 04/23/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "Being a Bad Livers fan is a strange thing. Every one of their records sound markedly dfferent from the last. There is the fascination with melding a kind of country with a kind of funk that binds all the records to some degree, but whenever you buy a new BL record, all bets are really off. You never know what you're going to get. Well, "blood and mood" really treds a strange path... everything from hip-hop to hillbilly to ambient finds its way into the mix here. It's exciting to see a band making music like this... its shows they either have a great respect for their fans and believe that the fans will enjoy a challenge, or they have complete disregard for us. Either way, it's refreshing to hear a band consitently churn out high-quality, ecclectic records while "commercial" bands continually try to make record after record that sound the same. I don't like every bit of this CD... infact, I really only listen to about 60% of it regularly... so why the high rating? (a) they have balls, and I'll respect them for that. Even if I don't like everything, it's smart, well done and original. (b) there are at least 3 songs (esp. "love songs suck") that rival just about any song I've ever heard as far as pure pop craftsmanship goes.Another wierd, knotty, and ultimately wonderful... I mean that literally... wonder-full record." Untraditonal Traditonal Sounds gopherus | Missouri | 09/21/2001 (4 out of 5 stars) "The Bad Livers' Blood &Mood isn't a background album. By background album I mean one of those records you put on and wash dishes too. Blood & Mood is a complex record that demands the listener's complete attention. "What the deal is is you're going to have to get over there and figure out what that's all about", the repeated loop that starts the album, could be applied to this release. Barnes and Rubin team up again with Lloyd Maines to produce this musical journey. The Bad Livers follow the same path they have been on - they create more untraditional music with traditional instruments. What the Livers have done is taken a touch of country ("The Legend of Sawdust Boogers"), a touch of folk ("Itty Bitty Town), and a touch of rock ("One More Night in a Hotel") added some banjo and tuba and then layered the songs with loops, samples and sequenced drums. The result is a sometimes harsh, sometimes sweet, dizzying display of musicianship. Each song challenges the listener to enter into it world and try to figure out how life there operates. If you are a music fan of any type, you should enjoy this album. If you are looking for something to play while you wash dishes, move on." Genre bending (and just plain bent, too) Andy Plymale | Richland, WA United States | 08/02/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Blood and Mood is wacky, funny, musically engaging, and, above all, audacious. With it's tongue-in-cheek blend of hill billy and punk rock, this is a CD that made me laugh out loud on the first listen. Blood and Mood offers a wide pallet of music, from tender ballads (?Little Bitty Town,?) to flat-out punk rock material (complete with bandleader Danny Barnes? ever-present banjo picking and high, nasally Texan singing). Of particular note is the Bill Frisell (jazz guitarist) influence in the guitar chord voicings of "Little Bitty Town." (Frisell and Barnes have been working together a lot lately.) This is a CD that will probably fall, unlistened, through the cracks between alternative rock and traditional acoustic music, but I love it. Five stars."
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