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24 Hours a Day |  | Artist: Bottle Rockets
Label: Atlantic / Ada
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 85868
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 756783015204
EAN: 0756783015204
ASIN: B000005J6F
Release Date: August 12, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Kit Kat Clock | | • | When I Was Dumb | | • | 24 Hours a Day | | • | Smokin' 100's Alone | | • | Slo Toms | | • | Indianapolis | | • | Things You Didn't Know - The Bottle Rockets, Parr, Tom | | • | One of You - The Bottle Rockets, Ortmann, Mark | | • | Perfect Far Away | | • | Waitin' on a Train - The Bottle Rockets, Parr, Russ | | • | Dohack Joe - The Bottle Rockets, Parr, Tom | | • | Rich Man | | • | Turn for the Worse |
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If you don't believe the Bottle Rockets are contenders for the title of world's greatest rock & roll band, you should check out their 1994 release, The Brooklyn Side, the decade's best rock & roll record: an out-of-fashion, unhoped-for blend of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Clash, funny and scary and catchy all at once. It was so good it was released twice--first on the late, lamented indie label ESD and then again on Atlantic. That's why it took three years for the follow-up, which was actually recorded in July 1996, to emerge. Because less is at stake in the songs, 24 Hours a Day isn't quite as good as The Brooklyn Side, but it's a remarkable piece of work just the same. Like the Blasters, the Bottle Rockets realize that roots are not an empty suit to hide in but a pair of shoulders to stand on so one can reach even higher. The four scruffy musicians from Festus, Missouri, can sound like fading Grand Ole Opry stars on an understated country song like "Dohack Joe," and they can sound like a Southern-rock bar band on an overstated rocker like "Slo Toms." These familiar formulas give the Bottle Rockets an entrée into the Middle America they spring from and speak to, but the band strips the forms of their predictability and sentimentality. The quartet plays with a sort of controlled anarchy, as if at any moment they might leap into epiphany or fall apart altogether--and that creates a suspense that makes you want to listen to each new measure. And lead singer/chief songwriter Brian Henneman is so quick to laugh at his own protagonists that the blue-collar romanticism of Mellencamp and Petty is boiled away to reveal lives as they're actually lived. --Geoffrey Himes
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 brilliant, hilarious, moving rock and roll January 5, 2001
R. Hutchinson (a world ruled by fossil fuels and fossil minds)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Bottle Rockets are one of the best bands in the whole "alt.country/roots rock" scene. You know what that means? They're one of the best bands in the world, period, right now! This is the Bottle Rockets' best record. Just about any song on it should be a hit in a better world. Just consider the title track
"I quit my job, no time to work, gonna spend 24 hours a day -- LOVING YOU!"
This has got to be one of the secret anthems of all guys. Brian Henneman is the singer, and main songwriter, but guitarist Tom Parr contributes two songs, and drummer Mark Ortmann writes one too. Some songs have fierce electric riffs, and others are acoustic, but as a whole they tell stories about working class folks trying to get by, with brilliant insight.
"Can't go West, can't go East, I'm stuck in Indianapolis with a fuel pump that's deceased... Is this Hell or Indianapolis?"
It could be the very character in this song who realizes too late that he's neglected his girlfriend, and sings about "When I Was Dumb." A couple of the most intense songs on the album are "Things You Didn't Know," and "Waiting On a Train," a breakup song with a screaming guitar riff that threatens to blow the walls out:
"He's got two things on me, you know, diesel power and he feels no pain!"
The other records by these guys are all great too -- THE BOTTLE ROCKETS (93), THE BROOKLYN SIDE (95) and BRAND NEW YEAR (99).
Listenable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week December 8, 1999
cd-heaven (ROCK CITY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This band is America's Hidden Treasure. Absolutely, one of the most pure and simple bands since Lynyrd Skynyrd. Brian Henneman is a songwriting genius. Brian writes songs about his own life experiences, whether it actually happened to him, or his friends or what he probably read in a newspaper. He doesn't sit around and think about what to write, he writes songs that touch your mind, heart, your spirit and your soul. It's that pure and simple. Every song on this disc is a classic from Kit Kat Clock to Perfect Far Away to One of You. The clincher is Smokin' 100's Alone and Indianapolis. The first being one of the most beautiful heartache songs EVER!! The latter being a classic road trip gone to hell stuck in all places, Indianapolis. If you love heartland music ala John Cougar Mellencamp's (who is immortalized in Indianapolis song) Scarecrow era songs, then you'll love this album and eventually The Bottle Rockets. A true Americana classic.
"Got a tow. From a guy named Joe." April 23, 2008
thedude_888 (Jersey, US of A)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottle Rockets come up with some strange lyrics, but man can they pound out a tune. One thing I love about these guys is that they have recorded all over the place. Missouri, New Jersey, New York, wherever they end up, they manage to record a tune & my point is this. Lyrics of the like, these guys write, come from driving and kicking around the U.S. feeling like a fancypants if you can check in to Super8 that night instead of some flea bag motel. These lyrics drip of Americana and if you like your Rock with a little country edge, then you'll like these guys. Actually some songs have good country lyrics to a rock beat & vice versa.. who knows.. you can't figure these guys out- it's just good.
Love it! November 10, 2005
markey mark
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Makes me want to make a trip to Slo-Toms. Let's Go Down to Slo-Toms.
 Shame on the Radio--An overlooked Gem! April 11, 2000
Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Bottle Rockets follow up album to "Brooklyn Side" is one of the best of the alt.country genre. The Rockets tend toward the rock'n'roll side of the alt.country movement, and many of their songs are quite up tempo, though the song "Smokin' 100s" is a great blues ballad. The band reaches its creative peak with "Indianapolis" (about a guy and a broken down van) and "Dohack Joe," two excellent pieces of songwriting that have the advantage of being FUNNY. The band's good humor shows throughout. Too bad their record company had no sense of humor and failed to properly support the album--leading to its quick disappearance. Fans of everyone from the Allman Brothers to Steve Earle should definately give it a listen.
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