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- Summary: The first album of a planned trilogy from the Oregon-born singer/songwriter.
- Record Label: MRI Associated
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Country
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Positive: 4 out of 8
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Mixed: 4 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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Peace Queer is a short and bittersweet gem, a rant that's funny enough to make the venom sting all the more and a cry of protest with joy and compassion in its heart.
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Peace Queer includes an acoustic antiwar rant and a ghostly reading of Creedence’s 'Fortunate Son' (with Patty Griffin on backup vocals). But the high point is a ragged bar-band jam about the dissolution of the middle-class dream ('Stuck on the Corner [Prelude to a Heart Attack]').
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On this eight-song EP--available for free on his Web site--the amiable 42-year-old lends his peach-cobbler drawl to songs about maimed soldiers and power-drunk bullies, a doleful cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'Fortunate Son' and 'Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith),' which deploys a Bo Diddley beat to excoriate a leader who “drove us off a cliff and told us we were flyin’.”
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Q MagazineFor his eigth studio album he's gone over the top politically. [Feb 2009, p.116]
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UncutFor his last couple of albums, cowpunk songster Snider has pitched himself in the sort of satiracally confrontational and liberal-minded territory occuupied by Randy Newman or Steve Earle. Peace Queer follows that pattern. [Jan 2008, p.113]
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With the help of folks like Kevn Kinney, Patty Griffin, Will Kimbrough, and others, Snider gives us eight songs that pack more wallop than their laid-back vibe suggests.
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The other two tunes here, the instrumental 'Ponce of the Flaming Peace Queer' and a once-again-relevant cover of 'Fortunate Son,' work fine, but, coupled with the album’s brief tracklist and tossed-off nature, they make Peace Queer little more than a focused stop-gap between proper albums.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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MaryD.Oct 28, 2008Snider is one of hte best songwriters of our time. Genius.
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BrandonM.Oct 27, 2008Excellent Todd Snider album. As always, Todd does a great job tying his words together with excellent music.
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GM.Oct 29, 2008
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