The Sadies - Precious Moments (1998)

Tracklist

01. Guns Speak
02. Dying Is Easy
03. Glass of Wine
04. Red Cloth
05. Little Sadie
06. Cheat
07. Cowhand
08. Pretty Polly
09. Clam Chowder
10. Seventy-Six (Pretend to Have the Same Interests)
11. Wagonwheel
12. Snow Squadron
13. Same Song
14. Wrap Around
15. Tell Her Lies & Feed Her Candy
16. Rubber Bat
17. Clear A Path
18. Rabid Monkey
19. Barbarosa
20. Lil Cottontail

Give the Sadies credit for attempting something new and different -- their brand of insurgent country also draws heavily on diverse inspirations ranging from classic surf music to garage rave-ups to murder ballads to spaghetti western soundtracks. Recorded by Steve Albini, Precious Moments doesn't reinvent alt-country, but neither does it simply recycle the same ideas worn out by other newcomers to the genre; even if everything on this debut LP isn't successful, at least it refuses to play it safe.

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