ARTiST : Lennon
ALBUM : Damaged Goods
LABEL : John Gait Entertainment
GENRE : Rock
RELEASE : 2006-09-20
STREET : 2006-09-19
ENCODER : LAME 3.90
QUALiTY : 217kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 107 MB
PLAYTiME : 01:05:29
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[#] [Track Name] [Time]
1. No One Knows 4:15
2. Where Do I Fit In 4:06
3. I Say 3:32
4. Goodbye 3:50
5. Just One 3:54
6. Nothing Out Of Me 3:05
7. Down The Line 4:08
8. Rain 2:58
9. Long Run 3:42
10. Reason 4:19
11. Finish What We Start 3:41
12. One Or The Other 3:44
13. My Sins 3:37
14. Another For Another 4:23
15. Brake Of Your Car 4:02
16. Over & Over 3:21
17. Wrong Way 4:52
65:29
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Damaged Goods, produced by Al Sutton (Kid Rock) and mixed by Eric Schilling
(Gloria Estefan/Shakira) is worth the wait. And it's not like there hasn't been
plenty to keep Lennon fans content in the meantime. The Beyond The Warped Tour
DualDisc came out in September, 2005; Lennon's insightful My Crazy Life DVD,
with live performances from Hong Kong and Dallas, plus offstage craziness, was
released in 2004; while the ironically titled acoustic record Career Suicide hit
to wide acclaim in 2004 as well. Some of the songs on Damaged Goods were
released in Europe, Latin American and Asian countries as the CD I Am, featuring
the acclaimed track "My Beautiful," which was Lennon's vocal collaboration on
her song with Travis Meeks of Days of the New. So it's not like Lennon's had any
time off.
Still, Damaged Goods may have been out earlier if about a million thingsùgood,
bad and uglyùhadn't intervened. Like the tour bus accident with a semi. While
Lennon was driving. Or, on the brighter side, her landing a major role in a
movie starring Freddy Rodriguez of Six Feet Under fame. Of course, she's still
waiting for the film to come out, but, "They didn't fire me, so maybe I can
act," Lennon deadpans. After her film debut, Lennon returned to Florida to work
with producer Sutton, with the goal of solidifying a "Lennon sound" for Damaged
Goods, moving away from the industrial-goth leanings of early songs like
"Property of Goatfucker" while retaining her dark allure and compelling
melodies. Then, on the first day of recording with Sutton, Arista released a
relieved Lennon from its clutches: "I wanted a career as a rock act, and an
album I could be proud of, and staying with Arista I really didn't see that
happening," she explains. Lennon was only too happy to release her next outings
herself, via John Galt Entertainment, the label she founded with her manager.
"In an industry where you have four weeks to hit and then they move on to the
next thing, a career is the last thing corporate America is considering," Lennon
observes. "By putting the DVD, I Am and Damaged Goods out through my own
company, I want to give myself the chance of still being around in 10 years."
The rest of 2002 and 2003 found Lennon writing and recording Damaged Goods in
both Florida and Detroit. Sutton pushed the young singer, as evidenced by the
amazing vocal work on such songs as "Wrong Way." "There's a high vocal part at
the end, and I told my bass player to bring a bottle of Maker's Markùit took
about half the bottle, but I hit the note!" 2002 also marked a milestone for her
familyùafter a two-year custody battle, she adopted her younger sister, who had
been living with Lennon since the death of their mother in 2000ùwhich occurred
shortly after Lennon's 18th birthday and right before Lennon signed her record
deal. "The adoption was a relief; no more cops showing up at shows, no more
depositions, no more lawyers," says Lennon. Her sister tours with Lennon selling
merchandise, while Lennon homeschools the straight-A student.
Though some of the songs on Damaged Goods date from when Lennon was in her late
teens, the majority were penned between 2002 and 2005, between touring with acts
as diverse as Nazareth, Heart, and Seether with time out to make her stunning
acoustic record, Career Suicide. Lennon explains: "The fans were getting
restless, so we did some new original songs, and either it was going to destroy
my career by everyone loving it better than the rock stuff, or everyone was
going to hate it, so, 'Career Suicide.' I think we spent just 5 or 6 hours in
the studio on the whole recordùone six-pack of Kilians, a piano, me and my
manager, who has been with me since I was 16." The result was nothing less than
another piece in the Lennon legacy, and in every rock show she plays, Lennon
always makes time for a couple acoustic songs.
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