Here Come the Snakes | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Studio | Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Label | Restless [1] | |||
Producer | Jim Dickinson, Joe Hardy | |||
Green on Red chronology | ||||
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Here Come the Snakes is an album by the American band Green on Red, released in 1989. [2] [3] The album cover photo, titled "Afterward from the Democratic Forest", is by William Eggleston. [4]
Recorded in Memphis, the album was produced by Jim Dickinson and Joe Hardy. [5] [6] [7] Band members Dan Stuart and Chuck Prophet were backed by local musicians. [8] Stuart and Prophet used the Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio, where they worked with Roland Janes. [9] " We Had It All" is a cover of the song made popular in part by Keith Richards. [10]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [11] |
Chicago Tribune | [12] |
Robert Christgau | B+ [13] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [14] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [6] |
Trouser Press wrote: "Again switching easily among rock, blues and country idioms, what's left of Green on Red sounds relaxed and confident, a warm and boozy vehicle for Stuart's amusingly wry regrets and social observations." [5] Robert Christgau said that "Stuart reemerges on Jim Dickinson's shoulder as Neil Young and Mick Jagger fried into one bar singer." [13]
The Chicago Tribune opined that "things bottom out on 'Tenderloin', a roiling, bluesy affair with a spoken monolog about failed love that, if it were delivered from a barstool by a tavern patron, would lead any saloonkeeper to close up early." [12] The Vancouver Sun noted that "Stuart is still at the top of his art—it's just a little too disturbing for mass consumption." [15] In 1990, The Times deemed Here Come the Snakes the best album of 1989, writing that Green on Red was "the most scandalously overlooked band of the last decade." [16]
AllMusic wrote that, "from the get-go, Prophet's guitar is the cornerstone to the Let It Bleed mood that fires this record." [11]
All tracks are written by Chuck Prophet and Dan Stuart; except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Keith Can't Read" | 3:22 | |
2. | "Rock n Roll Disease" | 3:08 | |
3. | "Morning Blue" | 3:58 | |
4. | "Zombie for Love" | 3:53 | |
5. | "Broken Radio" | 3:52 | |
6. | "Change" | 5:01 | |
7. | "Tenderloin" | 5:02 | |
8. | "Way Back Home" | 2:29 | |
9. | " We Had It All" | Donnie Fritts, Troy Seals | 3:33 |
10. | "D.T. Blues" | 2:52 |
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Here Come the Snakes | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1989 | |||
Studio | Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Label | Restless [1] | |||
Producer | Jim Dickinson, Joe Hardy | |||
Green on Red chronology | ||||
|
Here Come the Snakes is an album by the American band Green on Red, released in 1989. [2] [3] The album cover photo, titled "Afterward from the Democratic Forest", is by William Eggleston. [4]
Recorded in Memphis, the album was produced by Jim Dickinson and Joe Hardy. [5] [6] [7] Band members Dan Stuart and Chuck Prophet were backed by local musicians. [8] Stuart and Prophet used the Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio, where they worked with Roland Janes. [9] " We Had It All" is a cover of the song made popular in part by Keith Richards. [10]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [11] |
Chicago Tribune | [12] |
Robert Christgau | B+ [13] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [14] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [6] |
Trouser Press wrote: "Again switching easily among rock, blues and country idioms, what's left of Green on Red sounds relaxed and confident, a warm and boozy vehicle for Stuart's amusingly wry regrets and social observations." [5] Robert Christgau said that "Stuart reemerges on Jim Dickinson's shoulder as Neil Young and Mick Jagger fried into one bar singer." [13]
The Chicago Tribune opined that "things bottom out on 'Tenderloin', a roiling, bluesy affair with a spoken monolog about failed love that, if it were delivered from a barstool by a tavern patron, would lead any saloonkeeper to close up early." [12] The Vancouver Sun noted that "Stuart is still at the top of his art—it's just a little too disturbing for mass consumption." [15] In 1990, The Times deemed Here Come the Snakes the best album of 1989, writing that Green on Red was "the most scandalously overlooked band of the last decade." [16]
AllMusic wrote that, "from the get-go, Prophet's guitar is the cornerstone to the Let It Bleed mood that fires this record." [11]
All tracks are written by Chuck Prophet and Dan Stuart; except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Keith Can't Read" | 3:22 | |
2. | "Rock n Roll Disease" | 3:08 | |
3. | "Morning Blue" | 3:58 | |
4. | "Zombie for Love" | 3:53 | |
5. | "Broken Radio" | 3:52 | |
6. | "Change" | 5:01 | |
7. | "Tenderloin" | 5:02 | |
8. | "Way Back Home" | 2:29 | |
9. | " We Had It All" | Donnie Fritts, Troy Seals | 3:33 |
10. | "D.T. Blues" | 2:52 |
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