Bob Mould

Bob Mould | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009Q7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,023 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #66 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Singer Songwriters

Track Listings

1. Anymore Time Between

2. I Hate Alternative Rock

3. Fort Knox, King Solomon

4. Next Time That You Leave

5. Egoverride

6. Thumbtack

7. Hair Stew

8. Deep Karma Canyon

9. Art Crisis

10. Roll over and Die

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly underrated, May 29, 2004

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Ethan Straffin (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bob Mould (Audio CD)

Okay: of Bob's five solo albums to date, I'm going to go out on a limb and declare this to be the finest (with full awareness that I will most likely be set upon by a thousand deeply offended "Workbook" fans). There just isn't any filler on this one. My favorites are the tracks that another reviewer has accurately described as the "slow burn" numbers: "Anymore Time Between," "Next Time That You Leave," and "Roll Over And Die" (which closes the album on every bit as harrowing a note as "Explode And Make Up" did on Bob's previous effort, aka Sugar's swan song). There's plenty of other great stuff here, though. Check out "Eg0verride," in which Bob playfully pulls off a lyrically self-deprecating, seemingly electric-guitar-drenched melodic tour de force which actually doesn't feature his signature instrument at all. (Yep: it's all keyboards, fed through what must have been a rat's nest of effects.) Check out the metaphor-driven, acoustic relationship epitaph "Thumbtack" and decide for yourself whether you believe Bob that he wrote it on the fly and recorded it in a single take. Check out "Hair Stew" -- with its big sign reading, "Hi, I'm this album's Experimental Track" -- and keep checking it out until you're convinced that it's a little bit brilliant in its melodic and emotional dissonance. (At the very least, you will end up granting me that it's significantly less annoying than "Megamanic" from the followup album.) And if you still miss that iconic Sugar sound, you've got the blistering "I Hate Alternative Rock," the coulda-shoulda-been-a-single "Deep Karma Canyon," and "Art Crisis" (which loses points in my book only because it's musically and lyrically redundant with "IHAR").

One final note: some have criticized this album for being entirely self-recorded and self-produced on Bob's part, with particular criticism reserved for the electronic drums. As a drummer, I can honestly say that they don't bug me; in fact, I find them considerably less annoying than some of Grant Hart's work with Husker Du. ;)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mould's One-Man Masterpiece, July 20, 2000

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Jon Magnus (Bergen, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bob Mould (Audio CD)

Mould decided to do it all himself on this one, and it resulted in his best record ever. The music is closer to his most recent Last Dog and Pony Show than to Workbook, but it's rawer and more unrelenting, and has a more stripped-down sound to it (despite the flurring og his guitars). The agonized lyrics are extremely up-close and personal, to the extent that many people say Mould's too self-pitying and self-absorbed. These cold-hearted people can go by something from the Top 20-list.

Expect spending a lot of time "listening it in", though, as it is also his least accessible work. Fans of his immediately catchy recordings with Sugar, might be in for a bit of a surprise in this regard... But give it the time it needs, believe me, it's worth the while! (Don't bother to play it to your friends and family, though, they'll only shake their heads at you.)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BREAKING THE MOULD!!, April 25, 2002

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This review is from: Bob Mould (Audio CD)

Peerless is a word that comes to mind when one thinks of BOB MOULD.Anyone familiar with his outstanding work as the kingpin in HUSKER DU and then SUGAR will be knocked out by this fiery and deeply personal collection.In fact some of the songs feel so personal that you feel like you are intruding in private grief
witness NEXT TIME THAT YOU LEAVE sheer unbridled anger at the breakdown of a relationship with lyrics to match ''You were just a bastard'' BOBS' not one for mincing his words and Much of that mood pervades this album as does his trade mark full on guitar barrage with the glorious vocals set well back in the mix he's like a new age SPECTOR but unlike 'OL PHIL' this man sure can write a catchy song or two ,songs that once heard, buzz around in your brain for days perfect examples being FORT KNOX,KING SOLOMON and DEEP KARMA CANYON both priceless pop/rock gems.
BOB MOULD seriously talented and criminally underated.
You can redress that balance.