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Decoration Day

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  • Audio CD (28 Aug 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: New West
  • ASIN: B00009M8IA
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,756 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. The Deeper In 3:15£0.79
Listen  2. Sink Hole 3:26£0.79
Listen  3. Hell No, I Ain't Happy 4:38£0.79
Listen  4. Marry Me 5:39£0.79
Listen  5. My Sweet Annette 3:51£0.79
Listen  6. Outfit 4:04£0.79
Listen  7. Heathens 4:47£0.79
Listen  8. Sounds Better in the Song 4:08£0.79
Listen  9. (Something's Got to) Give Pretty Soon 3:38£0.79
Listen10. Your Daddy Hates Me 6:40£0.79
Listen11. Careless 2:07£0.79
Listen12. When the Pin Hits the Shell 4:10£0.79
Listen13. Do It Yourself 3:20£0.79
Listen14. Decoration Day 5:47£0.79
Listen15. Loaded Gun in the Closet 5:13£0.79

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Though SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA is probably the Drive-By Truckers' most ambitious album, its follow-up, DECORATION DAY, is where the band really came into its own. The template they established on their first three albums--bluesy Southern rock with a raw punk edge and a contemporary alt-country tinge--is at it's most concise and visceral here, not only musically, but lyrically as well. In a manner not dissimilar to THE RIVER-era Springsteen, DECORATION DAY articulates working-class dilemmas with a winning mixture of thoughtfulness and rock 'n' roll abandon, understanding that the means of expressing those dilemmas is often indistinguishable from the way out of them.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Rock'n'Roll Means Well but......, 15 Nov 2003
By David J. Kelly (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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After the masterpiece that is "A Southern Rock Opera" (ASRO) I couldn't wait to hear this album when I saw it was to be released. Initially I was surprised at how "country" the sound was but this soon passed. The Drive By Truckers write stories and on this album their storytelling comes to the fore even more than it did on ASRO. the stories are more personal and, if anything, the singing and playing are more impassioned. The stories are often unpleasant involving incest ("The Deeper In"), murder ("Sinkhole") and suicide ("Do It Yourself" and "When the Pin Hits the Shelf") showing the dark side of life in the southern US. They are, however, told with compassion and some of the guitar playing and other instrumental parts are really beautiful. Undoubtedly this is the same group as recorded ASRO but here they show more breadth in their storytelling and music.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow..., 30 Sep 2005
Like many other reviewers I was drawn into the Drive-By Truckers by "Goddamn Lonely Love" on a free CD with Uncut magazine, went out and bought The Dirty South, then started working my way backwards through their albums, this being the one before The Dirty South.
It is a little mellower than it's follow-up but the lyrical content and excellent musicianship are easily on an equal and those in search of all-out rockers or gentle ballads will find what they are looking for coupled with all three songwriters' talent for telling stories.
Highlights include "Outfit" - a song from a father to a son with some classic lines (I used to go round in a Mustang/A 302 Mach 1 in green/Me and your momma made you on the back-seat/And I sold it to buy her a ring), "Marry Me", "Heathens", "Hell, No I Ain't Happy", the genuinely moving lost-love/heartbreak song "Sounds Better In The Song" (I might as well have slipped that ring on your finger from a window of a van/As it drove away), "When the Pin Hits The Shell" and the wonderful title track, telling the outcome and bitterness associated with two feuding families.
I would even go so far to say that this is a better album than the Dirty South - certainly easier to get into - and readers of my review on that record will know how highly I rate it.
My only complaint is that not enough people have heard of this band. They deserve to be massive. I recently saw them live in Manchester, playing the smallest of the Academy's three venues and even though the place was packed, everybody I know who I have told about them always responds with "who?" Mind you, perhaps some things are best kept to yourself and then you can keep yourself satisfied in the knowledge that you're onto something special.
If you know what I mean.
Anyway - buy this album!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars simply storytelling, 27 Feb 2004
Not often I go into print....but this is worth it.
Pure genius storytelling at its best with triple guitar attack and enough grit to carry it through.dont be put off by the country tinges,this rocks!!
Simple , effective and downright cool.
Buy it, enjoy it!!
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