A clean and bright effort that delivers some heavy themes, America Town is a very American album: drifting from song to song is like driving through the Midwest going from town to town, each town has its own stories, and not all of them are happy. Singer/songwriter John Ondrasik tackles topics like suicide on "Easy Tonight" and the desire to belong ("Superman") but still manages to see the silver lining in the areas of family ("Easy Tonight") and idolatry ("Michael Jordan"). The songs are sung in a fragile growl, a little like Eddie Vedder singing a lullaby, and backed with some very straightforward acoustic guitar and piano-led rock. The focus is clearly on the lyrics, which are well written and effectively sung.
Got into a litle bit of a debate with fellow mogger Anna today about who would win in a fight. Not between her and I, jesus I know I would lose something fierce to a Greek robot. Our debate was about Spiderman and the Hulk, but I think we missed the bigger picture here. My question is, what do the Super Friends listen to on their Ipods while fighting crime through out the world? These are my th...
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| 1 Easy Tonight |
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| 2 Bloody Mary (A Note on Apathy) |
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| 3 Superman (It's Not Easy) |
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| 4 America Town |
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| 5 Something About You |
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| 6 Jainy |
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| 7 Michael Jordan |
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| 8 Out of Love |
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| 9 The Last Great American |
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| 10 Love Song |
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| 11 Boat Parade |
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| 12 Alright |
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| 13 Do You Mind |
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