So I’m pretty much through the E’s as I continue to rip my CD collection. I’ve rediscovered Everclear, particularly their album “Songs From an American Movie Volume 1: Learning How to Smile.”
If you’re familiar with Everclear’s catalogue of music, then you already know that this one stands out like a sore thumb among some of their more moderately harder stuff. It’s a very eclectic album for them, with some songs verging on folky. I really like it for the variety of instruments and unexpected arrangements, so I was a little disappointed when Volume 2 (Good Time for a Bad Attitude) came out and returned to being semi-rock.It wasn’t necessarily bad, but it just didn’t seem to have the same intricacies as the first and so I didn’t find myself listening to it nearly as much. Same goes for their last one, whatever that’s called.