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White Trash Hell

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This is another great Everclear album as usual.It start off with Heroin Girl, then goes to a great instrumental called Pacific Wonderland. I think Detroit and Blondes are both great songs. However, I think the best song this c.d. has to offer is For Pete's Sake. It is one of those "my girl left me and now I'm mad" songs. I also think the acoustic version of Fire Maple Song is an Everclear classic. The songs on this album are all worth listening to. They have qualities of all three Everclear albums. Definately an album for all Everclear fans!

White Trash Hell starts off with a fairly lame version of Herion Girl, but from there things start to pick up. Pacific Wonderland is an extremely good instrumantal, which is followed by two good old-style Everclear tracks. 1979 follows, but lets down the abum slightly, although the next track (for pete's sake) more than makes up for it, and I wonder why it was never put on a main album. The accoustic Fire Maple Song is probably the best version I ever heard. Overall the album is another classic Everclear album (with a couple of minor faults) with Art's usual 5-star lyrics keeping the listener mixed up in their emotions all the way through.

Everclear has developed a lot over the years from the raw pain of World of Noise to the dulled defiance of So Much for the Afterglow. Somewhere in there is White Trash Hell. It, in a word, rocks!!!! Blondes is grade-A Alexakis "girlfriend dumped me and now I'm mad" music, 1975 is a lost along the way track, and For Pete's Sake should have gone on one of the albums. It is definently an awesome release, and that's without the different versions of Heroin Girl and Fire Maple Song. Buy it. Buy it now.

Everclear is definitely the best band of the 1990's. With White Trash Hell, that statement is only backed up even more. The acoustic version of Fire Maple Song is amazing and For Pete's Sake will keep you humming the rest of the day. Everclear is without a doubt a band to be reckoned with.

For any Everclear fan who wants to hear more, this album is perfect. It's got 7 tracks of various acoustic and otherwise unreleased material, including a GREAT acoustic version of "Fire Maple Song," one of the greatest Everclear songs ever written. It's also got a different version of "Heroin Girl" that I like a lot. The variety of its tracks covers a wide range and offers an interesting perspective on Everclear's musical progression over time. Great album. By the way, if you want to know more about this album or any other albums of theirs or Everclear in general, feel free to email me. Although I don't own anything that's out of print, I have most of their singles and imports and they're my favorite band. So anyway feel free to email me.

This CD has several unreleased songs. The song "Heroin Girl" is not like it is on the album Sparkle and Fade, but an earlier version. Another song like Pacific Wonderland is like a Dick Dale song but not as sufisticated. The other songs are very cool. Check this out! Let me know what you think.