Day One

Sarah Dougher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1999)
• Original Release Date: August 10, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: K. Records
• ASIN: B00000JNLF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,255 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best CDs of '99, December 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Day One (Audio CD)

Super smart indie folk/pop with sunny melodies and perceptive lyrics. Sarah's got a warm, generous sensibility but also enough toughness and heartache to make her really interesting. If you like great indie songwriters like Liz Phair, Lou Barlow, Elliott Smith, Ben Lee, Quasi, or good ole twangy REM, you'll probably really like this. It's a comforting CD that's hard to stop replaying. And you just gotta love someone who can sneak 'humdinger' and 'lipsmacker' into the same song. This is one of those relatively unheralded debut CDs you hope your friends will tell you about.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Local Girl Makes Great, October 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Day One (Audio CD)

There is a lot of noise about the music scene in the Pacific Northwest. There's a good reason for that. One of them is Sarah Dougher. She writes with consideration about passion, ambition, feminism, addiction and failure. There's just something about this album that makes it stay in the cd player. Interesting, insightful lyrics and melodic passages make this difficult to turn off. I have it on repeat, personally.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Riot grrl's folky side., April 10, 2003

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cam h. "cahjs" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Day One (Audio CD)

This is the record to play when you're in and out of your car--gasoline, droppings off, pickings up, quick errands and idiot goodbyes--beginning a big lonesome journey and about to love it. It's for you when a glowey sunshine casts a friendly unreality on the urban world as it becomes sparser and sparser. It's for you feeling delightful hardly showered, dirty-clothed, ill-fitted; cocky though slouched, brilliant in 2 or 3 senses of the word. This is you running away and running toward at the same time.

Comparisons to early Liz Phair might do if I were forced to lump Dougher with somebody, but Sarah Dougher's a little more dissonant, a little less successfully sassy. Spiritually she may belong with Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Bonfire Madigan, The Butchies and what not; musically, she's closer to the Velvet Underground scoring Free To Be You and Me. This is one of those albums that fits both when it plays through your headphones as you are pouring over the lyric sheet, and when it is the soundtrack to your day's activities.

Sometimes the lyrics get lost in the low-fi noise, but overall, I dig it. Smart, earnest songs from one of those Little Voice That Could singers. This is one that will assure you you are not alone, when you probably are.