Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today

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Perhaps the hardest-working band in the Lone Star State, this Denton, Texas, four-piece's annual 250-plus live show agenda has molded them tighter than a No. 6 train in Manhattan rush hour. On Slobberbone's third album, songwriter Brent Best still prays to a homespun punk-rock confessional with both ears equally entrenched in Texas twang, his most intimate stories parlayed into a country-tinged compound of blustery barn-burners and back-porch ballads. The band has matured, slamming the door on their ever-charming sloppiness while turning to pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, even horns. The 12-string and fiddle symmetry of "Meltdown" slams into "Placemat Blues," which borrows a riff from the Replacements' rocker, "I.O.U." (from Pleased to Meet Me, recorded at the same Ardent Studios in Memphis). But the rest of the way, Slobberbone keeps it more refined ("Josephine"), even elegant at times ("Magnetic Heaven"), without ever losing that Southern boy sense of humor ("Gimme Back My Dog," "Pinball Song"). --Scott Holter

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Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today

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The essential album
God, I miss them.
an album about love, losers and life
Oh. Hell. Ya.
Bracing Blues Rock With a Sense of Humor

Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today
Slobberbone
Manufacturer: New West Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004U3TK
Release Date: 2000-07-25

Tracks:

Meltdown
Placemat Blues
Trust Jesus
Gimme Back My Dog
That Is All
Josephine
Lazy Guy
Bright Eyes Darkened
Lumberlung
Magnetic Heaven
Some New Town
Pinball Song

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Perhaps the hardest-working band in the Lone Star State, this Denton, Texas, four-piece's annual 250-plus live show agenda has molded them tighter than a No. 6 train in Manhattan rush hour. On Slobberbone's third album, songwriter Brent Best still prays to a homespun punk-rock confessional with both ears equally entrenched in Texas twang, his most intimate stories parlayed into a country-tinged compound of blustery barn-burners and back-porch ballads. The band has matured, slamming the door on their ever-charming sloppiness while turning to pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, even horns. The 12-string and fiddle symmetry of "Meltdown" slams into "Placemat Blues," which borrows a riff from the Replacements' rocker, "I.O.U." (from Pleased to Meet Me, recorded at the same Ardent Studios in Memphis). But the rest of the way, Slobberbone keeps it more refined ("Josephine"), even elegant at times ("Magnetic Heaven"), without ever losing that Southern boy sense of humor ("Gimme Back My Dog," "Pinball Song"). --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

The essential album.......2007-05-11

You know those albums where from begining to end the musician(s) can do no wrong? This is one of those albums. In my humble collection of 300-400 CD's this is one of the 5 greatest. This album is Slobberbone at it's finest, firing on all cylinders. There are no throw away songs, no filler, just one amazing song after another. This is a CD I know I'll still be putting in the stereo 20 years from now.

God, I miss them........2006-07-18

This is a brilliant album by a great band at their peak. The reviews that precede this one have already broken it down song by song, so I won't. I'll just add that years from, people will look back on this work and hold it much higher regard than enough people did at the time it was released. I've read that Van Gogh had trouble selling paintings in his lifetime as well.

an album about love, losers and life.......2004-04-10

i almost missed the notice, but when i spotted that the old 97's were going to play at the horseshoe in toronto, only a 90 minute bus ride away from the UWO campus, i threw down the books, packed up an overnight bag and jumped onto the next bus. i had never heard of the opening band, some cheezy name like 'slobber butt' or something equally silly - what did i care, i would be seeing the old 97's in a few hours !

little did i know.

it took a while for me to get into them, but by the time brent best got down on his knees, sweating blood and pleading himself hoarse on 'Josephine', i was hooked but good. i picked up their cd's after the show (Barrel Chested and Crow Pot Pie), but when i got home, i was so disappointed to find that Josephine wasn't on either (tho Billy Pritchard was a nice consolation surprise).

when i heard that this album had been released, i ordered it online that very day. and unlike the narrator in the song, i can get my fix of 'josephine' whenever i need. the rest of the album is a fine mix of wit and pain, but if josephine doesn't make you weep in sympathy, you need an operation to repair your tear ducts.

Oh. Hell. Ya........2003-10-09

This little beauty of a CD prit'near melted in my lil' player. I didn't take it out of the magazine for months. My girlfriend moved in and SHE loved them and they spent another three months in the machine. These guys are so very talented, it's kinda hard to explain without you having heard them. They all-out rock, but they're tight and smart about it, they don't rock out some big solo as an expression of the guitarist's ego. No. They place it well, it's clear that the songs are crafted into their cohesive wholes and not a series of good lyrics tatooed on the coolest riffs on hand at the moment. And talk about your swanky lyrics! They go from the tear-jerky, wistful "Josephine" to "Tilt-a-Whirl" (which isn't on this album, but that hardly detracts from the point) where his girlfriend can't pass up the blinking lights of a carnival and ends up ejected from the, yes, tilt-a-whirl, All the while he bemoans accusatorily "tilt-a-whirl, you took my girl." It's good clean fun. Just a little addictive. See them live if you have the chance, your ears will ring with glee.

Bracing Blues Rock With a Sense of Humor.......2003-03-20

Slobberbone's "Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today," bears at least a passing resemblence to the work of Social Distortion, namely blues rock with an occasional country twang and a dash of punk attitude thrown in. What separates Slobberbone is their keen sense of humor. Tracks like "Lazy Guy," "Gimmie Back My Dog," and "Pinball Song," are both biting and funny, and even an ostensibly serious song like "Lumberlung" has its amusing aspects. Other standout tracks include "Some New Town," "Magnetic Heaven" and "That is All." Not everything works, but enough of it does to make this album a keeper.

Overall, an excellent blues, country, punk rock album in the fine tradition of Social Distortion.

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