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- 1 I Dunno 3:10
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- 2 Bottle o' Tears 3:51
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- 3 All Over but the Cryin' 5:11
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- 4 Shake That Thing 5:11
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- 5 Six Years Gone 3:08
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- 6 Games People Play 3:42
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- 7 Another Chance 4:30
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- 8 Bring Down the Hammer 4:24
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- 9 Slaughterhouse 2:49
- 10 Stellazine Blues 4:10
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- 11 Sweet Blue Midnight 6:26
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- 12 Days Gone By 3:35
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- 13 Crazy 3:22
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- 14 Dan Takes Five 3:23
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- Total length: 56:52
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Good album by Georgia Satellites, from Atlanta, GA. Strong and youthful southern rock'n'roll, with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Black Crowes and Rolling Stones influences. Not exactly my coup of tea (I prefer the true, old-school sounding southern rock), but an interesting and funny album for sure.
(3,53/5,00)
(3,53/5,00)
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Salvation-Southern Rock's Divorce Record!
Ah, the days of my misspent youth! It was the mid to late Eighties and rock & roll needed something extra-a good-to-brilliant rootsy pick-me-up to get back to a solid foundation. That pick-me-up couldn't have come at a better time. I was never into the hairband scene, nor was I into once-great rockers-gone adult contemporary
-Robert Palmer, Steve Winwood, et al. Basically, the scenario went like this:
-Between Bon Jovi's cliched arena bar-band metal/AOR and Peter Gabriel's bland
adult alternative/world music/Pop Rock, here was a band that crashed a dull bland Yuppie power lunch that rock & roll had become. The answer for this boredom came Down South and the band was as Southern as they come-The Georgia Satellites, they were Called. The Satellites understood classic rock tradition of basic good ol' rock & roll. No wonder Heartland Rockers Tom Petty and Bob Seger worshipped and adored them. Their Early Originals Keep Your Hands to Yourself and Open All Night were ridiculously funny as hell and in other songs Red Light and Baby So Fine
the Satellites namechecked both Van Halen and the Replacements-two opposite ends of the Warner spectrum. Only the Satellites had the balls to cover Rod Stewart,
the Beatles, Joe South-they do an angry, vitriolic, timely and very Southern version of his 1969 breakthrough hit Games People Play-the Satellites do the late-Sixties writer proud, I must say!-and Jerry Lee Lewis. They simply were a throwback to an earlier and simpler time and that was alright with me. However, if they really wanted to knock down and Kick down the door on their final artwork Salvation-and they did
-the novelty aspect of the group had to go. Result-humor is lacking In its place was an unrestrained vitriol, anger and rage. Fender man and main writer
Dan Baird was going through a breakup with his wife and the theme of Salvation is not about Religion, God or Church-as with most Southern themes. Salvation screamed "I WANT A DIVORCE!" Clearly Dan was angry and furious. This is most evident on the opening trifecta of Rockers I Don't Know, Bottle of Tears
and All Over but the Cryin.' The Broken romance theme continues in acoustic country ballads Another Chance and Sweet Blue Midnight. Salvation is anything but mellow however. It is one of the hardest rocking albums the South has produced. This is evident in Rockers Bring Down the Hammer, Days Gone By and Crazy.
However, the best part of Salvation is the brilliant finale and Hardest Rocker
-in Dan Takes Five, Dan takes a trip down South and then comes back home,
leaves Atlanta for good, moves to Nashville and says to his soon-to-be-ex-wife
that he's leaving her for good and slams the door. Dan screams "I'll call you up baby when I reach home! Baby I'm gone and you can kiss it bye bye bye!" I would defiantly call Salvation the Dixie counterpart to Madonna's divorce record
Like a Prayer because both records are defined by a rebellious Fighting Spirit. In any case, Salvation will always be a defiant way to end the 1980's because like many
Eighties rock records, the door was kicked, knocked and smashed down to bricks
and pieces in the immortal quote of my friend and rock scribe Jimmy Guterman.
As a result Salvation should be on any Essential Eighties Rock collection.
Because of Salvation, the Georgia Satellites are never forgotten by me. Let It Rock!
In loving memory of late-Sixties/early-Seventies Southern singer/songwriter Joe South, Jimmy Guterman, James Brown and Tom Petty-Rock in Peace!
Knock It Back!
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After two good-timing albums, the Georgia Satellites decided to get serious with In the Land of Salvation and Sin. There isn't too drastic of a change, but the songs are more complex and definitely reflect their influences (largely Lynyrd Skynyrd) a bit more.
Unfortunately, they were already largely forgotten a mere three years after their big hit (even though it still go played regularly). I think another problem is someone decided the largely acoustic "Another Chance" should be the single off of here. A good song, but hardly the first one I would pick, especially with gems like "All Over But the Cryin" and "Sweet Blue Midnight". Hell, even their cover of Joe South's "Games People Play" would have been a better idea, if just because it was a familiar song.
The first half of the album is almost all what they were going for. Lots of great songwriting (which was always evident under the rave-ups of the first two albums) from Dan Baird, excellent production and timeless music. The second half, except for a few songs, drags mightily, almost everything except "Slaughterhouse" and "Sweet Blue Midnight" instantly forgettable.
After this Dan Baird went solo and the band broke up. They popped up again the '90s without Baird, and without even any of the fans that had stuck around this long.
Unfortunately, they were already largely forgotten a mere three years after their big hit (even though it still go played regularly). I think another problem is someone decided the largely acoustic "Another Chance" should be the single off of here. A good song, but hardly the first one I would pick, especially with gems like "All Over But the Cryin" and "Sweet Blue Midnight". Hell, even their cover of Joe South's "Games People Play" would have been a better idea, if just because it was a familiar song.
The first half of the album is almost all what they were going for. Lots of great songwriting (which was always evident under the rave-ups of the first two albums) from Dan Baird, excellent production and timeless music. The second half, except for a few songs, drags mightily, almost everything except "Slaughterhouse" and "Sweet Blue Midnight" instantly forgettable.
After this Dan Baird went solo and the band broke up. They popped up again the '90s without Baird, and without even any of the fans that had stuck around this long.
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A classic American rock record from a somewhat underrated band. This is almost a perfect album, with no weak cuts and lot of emotion and strength in the playing and singing. It seemed like a new beginning from the band as they were going away from novelty-type songs and onto more serious, adult themes. However, it was a last gasp.
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The Satellites best album, loud, funny and tight.
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