Brand New Year

Bottle Rockets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New West Records
• ASIN: B0001NBN7A
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,560 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nancy Sinatra

2. Alone In Bad Company

3. I've Been Dying

4. Sometimes Found

5. Headed For The Ditch

6. Helpless

7. Let Me Know

8. Brand New Year

9. Dead Dog Memories

10. The Bar's On Fire

11. White Boy Blues

12. Gotta Get Up

13. Love Like A Truck

14. Another Brand New Year

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MY FAVORITE CD OF 1999...PERIOD, January 26, 2000

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cd-heaven (ROCK CITY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brand New Year (Audio CD)

I am a loyal, and dedicated Bottle Rockets fan, and this is by far the best CD these boys have to offer. All of their albums get 5 stars, and it is hard to choose which 1 I like best, but this one just rocks. Brian Hennemann is a songwriting genius, becoming the most original male songwriter since Ronnie Van Zant. His songs are genuine and simple, most reflecting on what he has encountered in his life, just the way Van Zant wrote. While the past two Bottle Rocket efforts were more countryish than rock, Brand New Year has that bar rock boogie stomp to it, much like the out-of-print Brooklyn Side does. Kicking things off with a song titled to salute 60's superwoman, Nancy Sinatra, is excellent right from the get-go. Following that is Alone in Bad Company, another terrific song. Brian sounds to be pleading for serenity in I've Been Dying, to change all that he is done wrong. The pure Sometimes Found is heartwarming. Another rockin track is Helpless, singing about getting by today without getting plug into all the new technology. The album's centerpiece, Brand New Year, is a dark and miserable track, but fantastic. Brian singing about what is so special about another New Year, nothing changes. A few songs later we find out that the Bars On Fire, a hilarious sing-along anthem, about a fire that occurs but someone has to save the beer! After the manly ballad of Love Like A Truck, a big ole truck, we find ourselves finishing the album with a mournful and reflective acoustic version of Brand new year, with different lyrics than the 1st one. This is an absolutely essential album, my favorite Bottle Rockets album and my favorite for 1999.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This one gets better with age, August 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (Evanston, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brand New Year (Audio CD)

I too am an all out Bottle Rockets fan and would probably buy their version of Green Eggs and Ham. Brand New Year, has a more slick sound and a lyric structure that is more rigid than their previous, but with your 4th or 5th listen, Brian Henneman's humor and glibness definitely become noticeable. Bands need to grow and branch out and that is what the Rockets are doing here. They want to rock as much as the next guy and seem to throw subtlety to the wind. I would recommend 24 Hours a Day as the starter disk--but for tunes for a drive thru the heartland, Brand New Year still satisfies.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bottle Rockets shoot fot the stars, February 16, 2007

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Richard Amery (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brand New Year (Audio CD)

St. Louis roots rock band The Bottle Rockets are my latest favourite band with their CD brand New Year.
They open shows for Govt. Mule and besides, how can you not love a band with a song called Oh My God the Bar's on Fire (Somebody Save the Beer) or a song about Nancy Sinatra, especially when it has a great harmonized guitar lead riff.
Or for that matter, some of the best electric 12 string playing (Alone in Bad Company) since the Byrds flew high in the 60's.
There is lots of tasty blues tinged playing tinged with a bit of pop punk like the catchy Gotta Get Up and even some country on the infinitely rewindable Love Like a Truck.
And Let Me Know should have been a hit single when this CD was originally released in 1999. (It was rereleased in 2004 on a brand new record label.)
Throughout there are singable choruses and hooks that grab you by the ears and won't let go for an hour.
-- By Richard Amery