Skittish/Rockity Roll Mike Doughty
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- Release Date: 12/07/2004
- 2 Disc Set
- Sales Rank: 55,114
- Label: ATO RECORDS
- UPC: 880882153328
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Skittish/Rockity Roll
Disc
1 | |
| 1 | The Only Answer 2:08 |
| 2 | The Pink Life 2:58 |
| 3 | Real Love/It's Only Life 3:10 |
| 4 | No Peace, Los Angeles 3:31 |
| 5 | Where Have You Gone? 3:12 |
| 6 | Thank You, Lord for Sending Me the F Train 2:42 |
| 7 | Looks 2:56 |
| 8 | Shunned + Falsified 2:42 |
| 9 | All the Dirt 2:33 |
| 10 | Sweet Lord in Heaven 1:44 |
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Disc
2 | |
| 1 | Ways + Means 3:06 |
| 2 | 27 Jennifers 2:49 |
| 3 | Down on the River by the Sugar Plant 3:07 |
| 4 | 40 Grand in the Hole 2:15 |
| 5 | Ossining 2:37 |
| 6 | Cash Cow 3:25 |
| 7 | The Only Answer Bonus Track 2:32 |
| 8 | Move On (Bloom Like the Sunlight in My Song) Bonus Track 4:46 |
| 9 | I Failed to Use It Bonus Track 1:55 |
| 10 | Laundrytown Bonus Track 1:40 |
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About this Artist
Editorial Reviews
Gathering Mike Doughty's 2000 acoustic release Skittish -- produced by Kramer (of Low and Galaxie 500 fame) and recorded in 1996 -- and his 2003 EP Rockity Roll, this reissue proves that cruelly overlooked singer/songwriters win out every once in a while. Reviving the formula that made Soul Coughing's "Circles" so irresistible, Doughty's love affair with drum programming and bluesy guitar fills on "Ways + Means" are secondary to an unforgettable chorus. More melodic and possibly more alluring, another EP extract, "27 Jennifers," could and should be the singer's mainstream breakthrough. If the technology charged, mid-tempo street ode "Down on the River by the Sugar Plant" broadens Doughty's scope, it's "40 Grand in the Hole" where he sounds his most natural as a maturing troubadour "standing in line at Teriyaki Boy." If it's possible, the unplugged Skittish material is even more appealing, as Doughty medleys a 1992 Mary J. Blige smash with an underground classic by the Feelies on "Real Love/It's Only Life." Elsewhere, on "The Only Answer," his layered vocals and tracked guitar work is as edgy, urgent and transcendent as bare music has a right to be. The latter gets duplicated -- as one of two bonus tracks recorded at Bonnaroo in 2004 -- alongside a pair of Skittish outtakes, but the real find for Doughty disciples who already own most of this material is "Get Along." Recorded for the film Evenhand, with a tact similar to the Rockity Roll tracks, this solid mid-tempo groove is as magical as anything in Doughty's canon. John D. Luerssen, All Music Guide
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