Temporary Thing, the / Temporary Thing, the
Album: Temporary Thing, the   Collection:General
Artist:Temporary Thing, the   Added:Jul 2003
Label:Independent  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-01-05 Pull Date: 2004-03-08
Week Ending: Jan 25 Jan 18 Jan 11
Airplays: 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 11, 2024: Weekend Waffle
Anyway's the Same
4. Jan 08, 2004: Love on a Mix Tape
Anyway's the Same
2. Jan 19, 2004: Fly By Night
Anyway's the Same
5. Jan 05, 2004: Fly By Night
Anyway's the Same
3. Jan 14, 2004: In thbe Leaves
She Always Gets Her Way

Album Review
Kathryn Todd
Reviewed 2004-09-08
Upbeat guitar-heavy pop oscillates between angsty brit-pop and folksy country. Boyish male vocals, no FCC’s. I like track 6.

1: Cheery guitar lick, with completely unrelated slurred vocals and piano underneath making for 13 seconds of dementia. (0:13)
2: Same cheery guitar lick. Brit-pop vocals with adolescent lyrics about the callousness of some chick. Sugar-coated angst. Rising drumminess subsides into a soft Vegas-elegiac ending. (4:04)
3: Soft tense intro. Pleasant guitar-heavy melody, with lyrics about music, traveling, and ennui. Rawkin’ drum solo in the middle. (4:56)
4: Poppy, with lots of piano. Lyrics: nobody cares what I do anyway, so I might as well just go to sleep. Repetitive chords get a bit grating. (3:07)
5: Sweet acoustic ballad, with pitchy high vocals about some chick that this dude really likes. Violin ensures extra sappitude. Do you like Simon and Garfunkel? (3:22)
6: Bluegrass guitar, with weird vibrating sound (gutbucket?). Lyrics: I was sad when you broke up with me, but now I’m glad, especially since you’re in the hospital, or dead, or something. “Now who’s cryin’ over who?” Whistling! (3:16)
7: Strummy acoustic guitar, prominent confidential vocals about alcoholism and some girl who visits. Steel guitar interlude heightens the country flavor. (5:09)
-Kathryn

Track Listing
1. Anyway's the Same   8. She Always Gets Her Way
2. Blackout Smiling   9. Girls in the Stone
3. This Ain't Love   10. You, Me and a Bottle of Whis
4. On the Brigth Side   11. Half Full Cans
5. Awaken By a Dream   12. Tan Line Blues
6. Diversion Girl   13. To Circle the Sun
7. To Hear the Sound of Birds   .