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. "So What If I Did" was a minor modern rock hit.

Production

The album was produced by

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song; "

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; it was added to album when the band realized they had too many serious songs. The band offers admiration for

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Critical reception

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'' wrote that "guitarists Dix Deanney and Mike Martt set the stylistic tone on the album's opening tracks with ringing, rhythmic layers of electric guitars that initially recall the impact of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers." '' The Gazette'' determined that, "rather than be locked in by the limited ambition that pervades the college-indie-band mindset, Thelonious Monster makes the sarcastic digs stick by cranking up music that is at times as good as Stones and Beatles-influenced rock gets when set firmly in a late-'80s context." The ''

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'' noted that "the guitars are turned up, the rock 'n' roll is as straight forward as a sledgehammer and odd harmonies run rampant." '' Spin'' called the album "white soul, with one foot in adolescence and the other in that record store where you bought all your old J. Geils and Cream albums."

Track listing

# "So What If I Did" (3:47) # "Oh (No Sense At All)" (3:17) # "Lena Horne Still Sings Stormy Weather" (2:26) # "For My Lover" (2:31) (

) # "My Boy" (3:16) # "Bourbon St. Stagger" (1:51) (cassette bonus track) # "Colorblind" (3:15) # "Real Kinda Hatred" (3:37) # "Nuthin's Perfect" (3:25) # "Sammy Hagar Weekend" (3:00) # "You Better Run" (2:47) # "

" (3:30) ( Blind Lemon Jefferson) # "I'm Goin' Shoppin'" (1:58) (cassette bonus track)

Personnel

* Bob Forrest - vocals * Dix Denney - guitar * Christopher Handsome - guitar * Mike Martt - guitar, vocals * Pete Weiss - drums, background vocals with * Rob Graves - bass * Mark E. Hall - guitar Additional musicians:

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, Sondra Christianson,

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References

{{Authority control Thelonious Monster albums 1989 albums Relativity Records albums