TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Smog
Smog
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1383
Smog Album Rankings
1
Why is there a cat on the cover of this record? For what reason is it bearing its fangs at me? Why the lightning? And why the fuck is this record titled Knock Knock ? And so it goes with the latest re
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2
Building onJulius Caesar's artful songcraft,Wild LoveexpandsBill Callahan's lyrical and musical horizons, balancing roughness and polish in just the right amounts.
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3
Over the course of his previous albums,Bill Callahanexplored every nuance of humor and despair; with 1997'sRed Apple Falls, he adds hope and possibility to Smog's scope.
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4
Every track on Dongs of Sevotion is chock-full of some of the most poignant, disconcerting lyrics you should ever have to hear.
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5
Like grainy snapshots taken in an instant-photo booth,Julius Caesar's 13 songs have a fuzzy, distinctive character, heightened by their low-budget surroundings.
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6
The subtle backing musicians never overshadow Callahan’s reedy baritone and direct lyrics; they merely add subtle shading and light in the appropriate spots--a restraint reminiscent of Bob Dylan’s
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7
A strong early contender for Record of the Year.
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8
Without a doubt one of Callahan’s most inspired collection of songs to date.
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9
Though the four songs on 1996'sKicking a Couple AroundEP weren't recorded at the same time or even with the same people, it nevertheless flows seamlessly -- a fine, concise primer toSmog'saesthetic.
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10
Documenting romantic decay and deception with typically unflinching honesty,Bill Callahanrecounts every painful detail of falling in and out of love over the course ofThe Doctor Came at Dawn.
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11
Over the years, as I've become more and more adept at picking out which CDs from my collection to inflict on my friends, they've become more and more adept at finding swift, comical ways to write them
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12
I'd bet you my syringe-shaped locket that Bill "(Smog)" Callahan read Camus' The Stranger at an impressionable age.
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13
Forgotten Foundation is a reissue of Smog's clangorous second album.
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