ARTiST: Mike Doughty
ALBUM: Introduction
BiTRATE: 183kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Nois-O-lution / ATO Records
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 87.61 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 02min 14sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-02-21
STORE DATE: 2009-02-20
Track List:
--------
01. 27 Jennifers 3:12
02. The Only Answer 2:08
03. Looking At The World From The 3:59
Bottom Of The Well
04. Fort Hood 3:14
05. Thank You Lord For Sending Me 2:53
The F Train
06. Busting Up A Starbucks 4:19
07. Rising Sign 2:20
08. Down On The River By The Sugar 3:06
Plant
09. No Peace Los Angeles 3:32
10. I Hear Bells 4:19
11. I Got The Drop 2:08
12. I Just Want The Girl In The 3:50
Blue Dress To Keep On Dancing
13. Move On (Bloom Like The 4:16
Sunlight In My Song)
14. Grey Ghost 3:53
15. Put It Down 3:54
16. The Gambler 3:36
17. Laundrytown 1:41
18. White Lexus 2:19
19. His Hurt Is Marching On 3:35
Release Notes:
--------
Before emerging as a solo artist, M. Doughty (first name: Michael) was best
known as the frontman of the unique avant-garde group known as Soul Coughing.
Spawned in 1992, Soul Coughing was formed after Doughty met his bandmates (Yuval
Gabay, Sebastian Steinberg, and Mark de Gli Antoni) while working as a doorman
at the Knitting Factory, a staple of New York City's hip underground music
scene. Soul Coughing signed to Slash/Warner in 1993 after making a name for
themselves on the local scene and attracting the attention of music labels with
their fusion of rock, Doughty's beatnik-inspired lyrics, and elements of hip-hop
and electronic music. Releasing their first of three albums the following year,
Soul Coughing enjoyed only moderate commercial success over the next six years
with the singles "Super Bon Bon" and "Circles." However, their unclassifiable
music style kept Soul Coughing apart from the mainstream as the initial boom of
alternative rock in the early '90s soon subsided considerably.
In March 2000, the members of Soul Coughing split up to work on their own side
projects. Shortly after the breakup, Doughty, who had been writing as a
columnist for New York Press on the side, embarked on a solo acoustic tour
consisting of material from a then-unreleased solo album recorded in 1995,
entitled Skittish. After bootleg copies of the album surfaced on the
file-sharing network Napster, Doughty released an official version of Skittish
on his website (www.superspecialquestions.com) in October 2000. A stripped-down
acoustic effort as opposed to the sonic abundance of Soul Coughing, Skittish
features some of Doughty's most direct and personal lyrics accompanied by his
signature syncopated guitar-playing style.
In addition to overcoming drug addiction and beginning work on a second solo
album, Doughty continued to do solo tours and was heard contributing vocals to
BT's club hit "Never Gonna Come Back Down," collaborating with John Flansburgh
of They Might Be Giants for a CD that accompanied an issue of McSweeney's
Quarterly Concern. He also composed the soundtrack to a trailer for New York
City's Gen Art Film Festival.
In July 2002, Doughty released the limited-edition live album Smofe + Smang:
Live in Minneapolis. It featured a large selection of solo material as well as
Soul Coughing classics. A book of poetry entitled Slanky, which was initially
self-released in 1995, also coincided with the live album. In 2003, more solo
work surfaced in the form of the Rockitty Roll EP, which was then combined with
the Skittish album and re-released with a handful of bonus tracks when Doughty
signed to Ato Records in 2004. In 2005, Doughty released his first solo effort
to feature a band, Haughty Melodic, which contained fleshed-out studio versions
of several songs debuted on Smofe + Smang, and 2008's Golden Delicious followed
suit.