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Title: LAME!
Review: As a HUGE fan of the Replacements, Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons, early REM, and the Byrds, I find this album to be a calculated, pretentious and uninspired rip-off of the Uncle Tupelo sound. Whiskeytown sound like they're trying to hide weak songwriting skills behind a facade of Americana authenticity.Although one or two songs start to take off a bit, the most promising song--"Houses on the Hill"--is a near-plagiarism job on Neil Young's "Thrasher". Once you make the connection, you just might have to get rid of this CD, not only because it is one annoying album, but on principle.And glorifying being a drunken loser is a dead end, not just musically--in LIFE!
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