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Dirty Side Down is the eleventh studio album by American band Widespread Panic.The album signaled the return of John Keane as producer and was recorded in the band's hometown of Athens, Georgia, [2] in contrast to the previous two albums produced by Terry Manning at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas.
Critical reception has been mixed. In January 2014, in a review for Cruel Sun, Kurt Keefner said that "the African vocal riff from 'Send Me on My Way' is bad Ladysmith Black Mambazo", [5] whereas Chris Baker of Syracuse.com said "The song's pep and lightheartedness is undoubtedly responsible for its success. Unlike the fervor found in songs ...
"Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have – but I Have It" (stylized in all lowercase) is a song by American singer Lana Del Rey. The track was released as the third single on January 9, 2019, through Polydor Records , to promote her sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell! . [ 1 ]
"Better Get a Lawyer" is a song by Australian indie rock band The Cruel Sea. The song was released in November 1994 as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, Three Legged Dog. The song peaked at number 29 on the ARIA Charts. The track borrows lyrics heavily from Jon Wayne's "Texas Jailcell" giving Jon Wayne a songwriter credit.
"So Cruel" was favourably received by critics. Hot Press editor Niall Stokes called it "dark, bitter, intense and masochistic", believing the lyrics to be the aspect that made the song memorable. He added, "As a statement about marital infidelity, the sense of betrayal that accompanies it and the rage that almost inevitably follows, it would be ...
A lyric sung to the same melody, called "When This Cruel Draft Is Over", lamented the plight of potential draftees, [5] and later in the war, lyrics to this tune praising George McClellan, and championing him as a presidential candidate to succeed Abraham Lincoln, were written under the title "Shouting 'Mac' and Freedom". [6]
There’s a song by Prefab Sprout which says the same thing, called "Cruel", which I love". [4] The Herald also spotted "Chocolate Girl’s dysfunctional Don Juan" running through the lyrics. [5] Paddy McAloon claimed in a 1990 interview that the band approached him to contribute vocals to the song. [6]
The album takes its title from a line in "The Greatest Thing". [14] [23] With lyrics describing love as a type of fantasy in a unique language, Costello uses the phrase "punching the clock" for the narrator as an expression of starting his work shift or stopping the passage of time in order to find a new lover who will "take his breath away ...