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 enlarge | Artist: Dr. Dog
Label: PARK THE VAN RECORDS
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
Buy New: $10.97
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 2660
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 25
UPC: 788377110323
EAN: 0788377110323
ASIN: B0018TAFW0
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Dog Bless the Good Doctors July 29, 2008
Donovan Whittemore (Los Angeles)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Get five crowns and the keys to the kingdom ready because these guys are the kings of being f***ing awesome. If you already like the good Doctors, you'll find nothing to disappoint you here and if you're one of those cloth-eared snots who don't like Dr. Dog, well I hope you're hungry because you're going to have to eat it one day. Yeah, open wide Mr. Cohen. See you at the show!
 Fate Fades into good August 13, 2008
William E. Warren (Burbank, CA USA)
Like it's predecessors, this album takes a couple of listens to get into. I love that moment when listening to a Dr. Dog album, when you realize the awesomeness. It's a great epiphany.
Fate's awesomeness isn't as awesome as Easy Beat and We all Belong. You can hear more definite, direct influences which takes a little bit from some of the songs. The fist song takes some Doowhops out of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. It's not a bad thing though. Just takes you out of the song for a millisecond.
The first five songs are good, but not my favorite. From Ark on, the band is at it's best.
I hope they do more shows. I saw them in LA two years ago and every time they come back, they sell out! I wish more bands were like Dr. Dog. Lo-Fi is the new Hi-Fi! Or something.
Dr. Dog What A Great CD August 23, 2008
TripletMum (Seattle, WA)
I was sitting reading in my local Barnes & Noble when they were playing this CD in it's entirety and found myself tapping away at one upbeat track after another and they reminded me of the Beetles a little bit...had to go get this and have not regretted it at all. The more you play it the better it gets. Well done Dr. Dog Great CD
Derivative, but quite good August 24, 2008
C. Wynes (Dyersburg, TN)
I bought this blind from Amazon, based on the reviews, and having never heard of the band before. I was so impressed, I bought their first two albums.
The music is certainly derivative, but if somebody makes a new painting that looks like a Dali, then well -- it looks GOOD because Dali was good, and to heck with those who decry the lack of originality. I actually saw this CD on an endcap display at Best Buy, of all places, and for people who buy CD's at Best Buy this might well sound original. It gets the "Beatle-esque" branding, though it reminds me more of solo Lennon, and there's a detectable love for Brian Wilson here as well, but the Bowie influence on their earlier records seems to have run dry. For the most part it is quite similar to the last two Wilco albums, with some harmonies bearing resemblance to Of Montreal's early work.
Compared to their first two albums, this one has better production value -- lo-fi has its charm, but these guys don't *quite* have the songwriting talent of a Robert Pollard to pull that off. The higher production value benefits them. The songwriting also is more consistently good on this album than on its predecessors, there are no real duds here. The guitar player has gotten a bit more conventional, but a bit better in the process.
If you're an indie rock fan, you may conclude that this album takes too few chances, deviates too rarely from the script, and has little to offer that you haven't heard before. I'd concede that, but a well-crafted pop-rock song doesn't have to be unlike anything you've ever heard, it just has to excite you through six or seven listens before it grows old. These guys have drawn together some great influences and created a solid record in their example, and I'm happy to have them out there doing it once a year.
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