Fight Songs

Spin: 7 (out of 10) - "...Shuffle rhythms and big-note guitar lend a fading sheen of hick to what is actually a polished slab of melodic pop, full of sad, hooky, vaguely twangy confessionals for entry-level boot-gazers..."

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CD Details

Released: April 27, 1999
Originally Released: 1999
Label: Elektra / Wea

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 5/27/99, p.63

3.5 stars (out of 5) - "...'alt-country' - a tag that the Dallas quartet has outgrown with the eclectic, often genius FIGHT SONGS. Singer and songwriter, Rhett Miller loves a pure, earnest melody, and he has an ear for the revelatory juxtaposition..."

Spin - 6/99, p.144

7 (out of 10) - "...Shuffle rhythms and big-note guitar lend a fading sheen of hick to what is actually a polished slab of melodic pop, full of sad, hooky, vaguely twangy confessionals for entry-level boot-gazers..."

Entertainment Weekly - 4/30/99, p.97

"...High-strung students of Brothers Everly and Doobie, Crazy Horse and 'Wild Horses,' Tex-Mex and T.Rex, they harness achy-breaky hearts to songs so packed with hooks and wordplay they seem ready to explode..." - Rating: A-
Paste (magazine) - "Old 97's created a roots record as fun as it is brilliant."
Paste (magazine) - "Rhett Miller's songwriting and vocals fill FIGHT SONGS with such a loneliness and desperation, you can almost hear his heart breaking under the slide guitars."

Tracks:

1.Jagged
2.Lonely Holiday
3.Oppenheimer
4.Indefinitely
5.What We Talk About
6.Crash on the Barrelhead
7.Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
8.Alone So Far
9.Busted Afternoon
10.19
11.Let the Idiot Speak
12.Valentine