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Track Listing
1. Spinnin'
2. Bitter Pill
3. Veil of Tears
4. Nice Guys (Don't Get Paid)
5. Something Out of Nothing
6. Gullible's Travels - (with Bernie Worrell)
7. Brand New Shine
8. Easy Street
9. Grounded
10. Be on Your Way
11. We 3
12. All the King's Friends
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Bernie Worrell | | Producer: | Steve Jordan | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Soul Asylum: Dave Pirner (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Daniel Murphy (guitar, background vocals); Karl Mueller (bass); Grant Young (drums).
Soul Asylum's second major-label album (following HANG TIME) was, at the time, a commercial disaster. The label dropped the band, Dave Pirner suffered from serious depression, and many of the band's original fans accused the group of selling out. In retrospect, all this seems bizarre considering that AND THE HORSE THEY RODE IN ON is a very good album. While the production could be crisper, this is a solid set of pre-alternative rockers.
Dan Murphy's "Gullible's Travels" is the standout track, with its brittle acoustic jangle behind the electric instrumentation, a coolly detached guitar solo, and some of the band's most heartfelt vocals. "Brand New Shine" raises Pirner's skill at country-rock to new heights, as it rolls along with a faint hint of jagged metal in the guitars. "Easy Street" rides on Murphy's expressive guitar and Pirner's hoarse vocals. The album ends with "All the King's Friends," a crunching rocker with hooks in all the right places. This record contains 42 of Soul Asylum's finest moments.
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...A less gung-ho collection [than HANG TIME]....it offers plenty of evidence of a band waiting in the wings...
Q (12/01/1993)
...[the album's] dozen songs are evenly split between metallic riff workouts and loud'n'fast rave-ups, with a few strange genre experiments and slower atmospheric pieces thrown in to vary the pacing...
Spin (11/01/1990)
3 Stars - Good - ...There's a great heavy-metal band lurking in Soul Asylum's guitar grinders...
Rolling Stone (11/29/1990)
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