I’m going to continue down the musical path of short lived Alt/Country groups. Today we will celebrate the genius of Whiskeytown.
Whiskeytown Discography and best song from each album:
- Faithless Street (1995)
- Midway Park
- Angels (EP 1995)
- Tennessee Square
- Strangers Almanac (1997)
- 16 Days
- Rural Free Delivery (EP 1997)
- Pawnshop Ain’t No Place for a Wedding Ring
- In Your Wildest Dreams (EP 1997)
- Whither I’m a Flower
- Pneumonia (2001)
- Sit and Listen to the Rain
Best Whiskeytown Album:
- Pneumonia
Top 10 Whiskeytown Songs:
- 16 days
- Whither I’m a Flower
- Sit and Listen to the Rain
- Jacksonville Skyline
- Don’t Wanna Know Why
- House On the Hill
- Inn Town
- Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
- Yesterday’s News
- Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
Read, review, and respond.
Great music awaits!
April 28th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
I have always been partial to Strangers Almanac as my fave CD, but then again, that is when I really discovered them. “Houses on the Hill” may be my favorite all-time Whiskeytown song, but I also love “Avenues”, “16 Days” and “Losering” are right there as well…you know…there is not a bad song on there. I have this list of albums that are perfect song-to-song and Strangers Almanac is high upon that list.
I will say that I think “Pneumonia” is better lyrically than “Strangers Almanac”. A few of my faves…
Sit & Listen to the Rain
“I’ll never understand this emptiness / I’ll never really try and understand, I guess / I’ll never understand this emptiness / I’ll never really try and understand, / Try and understand, I guess”
AND
Jacksonville Skyline:
“I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime
I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I wasn’t able to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it
Seem like stars”
Genius.
April 29th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Genius indeed! I can not argue the greatness of Stanger’s Almanac and actually it is a toss up between the two. The funny things is that Pneumonia was my intro to Whiskeytown so maybe that is the key to the choice.