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As surely as long-haired, mother-loving bands from Florida, Alabama and Georgia could put the smell of cotton on '70s arena-rock, the children of the South are now cottoning to modern rock. The boundaries have loosened up a bit--the paradigms of this new breed of Southern rock include Live, from Pennsylvania (just above the Mason-Dixon line), and Arizona's Gin Blossoms--and so has the form. The boogie and jangle of old now compete with distorted guitar crunching, and while the new Southern bands honor and respect the family, they're not afraid to recognize how dysfunctional one can be. Call it cotton alternative.
New Orleans, Louisiana's Better Than Ezra are deep in it--backwoods enough to yearn for the scent of pine and good iced tea (the winsome "Southern Girl"), yet urban enough to know the pain and fury of The Smiths and Nirvana. In "Teenager," they empathize with a misunderstood teen who listens to the Cure and shuffles between the homes of his divorced parents. In the meantime, they're playing a rewritten version of the Outlaws' "Green Grass And High Tides."
A Southern gothic aesthetic is also at work on DELUXE. In "Summerhouse," a man is murdered, apparently by an abused woman, and no one in town can hide a smile. In the gorgeous, unplugged "Porcelain," the singer faces a woman who has stopped loving him and fantasizes about killing her. But where an old-time Southern rocker might've gone through with it, Better Than Ezra just sublimate.
Live Recording
Recorded at Padded Cell Studio, Los Angeles, California from May to June 1993.
Better Than Ezra: Kevin Griffin (vocals, guitar); Tom Drummond (bass); Cary Bonnecaze (drums, vocals).
Additional personnel: Melanie Owens, Dan Rothchild (vocals); Lily Hayden (violin); Martin Tillman (cello); Walt Thompson (Hammond B-3 organ).
Better Than Ezra Deluxe Songs Deluxe Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   I love BTE!
Better Than Ezra is my favorite band and I have never seen a disappointing album from them. Being their first, this was an awesome debut album and I would recommend it to anyone! Enjoy!
Submitted by conchitabonita777 (Pennsylvania) 
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Deluxe
This is probably by far my favorite album EVER! Every song is worthy of being a hit. It just makes you happy to be alive everytime you listen to it. Once you've herd it once, your hocked. I recomend this CD to anyone! It amazing
Submitted by elohssa1987 (Sanford, ME)
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Better Than Ezra can't get any better than Deluxe. This C.d. is I think by far the top 5 albums released in the mid-90's. It's got great rock, that is actually fun, and shows quite a bit of talent. This C.D. will have you listening to it over and over again and before you know it you'll be singing along with every word recorded on this Deluxe C.d. I highly recommend it, if you're wanting to hear what Rock n Roll was actually meant to be...FUN this is about the only C.d. that showed fun in this era of music.
Submitted by rhtowell99 (Sterling, AK, USA)
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Best Ezra album
This album should rock. It's been 8-years later in 2003 of releasing this album in 1995. It's the bestest Better Than Ezra album and so as "Friction Baby". The best songs were "In The Blood", "Rosealia", and "Good". The other Better Than Ezra of their 1989 album "Suprise" is the best album too.
Submitted by sonicreducer00 (Petal, MS, USA)
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Purchase Deluxe CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Pearl Jam Yield CD (1998)
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"Do The Evolution" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Short Form Music Video. YIELD was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
Nay-sayers and trends be damned. Pearl Jam's follow-up to 1996's NO CODE continues down the path of aggressive rock and roll, existential musings and musical experimentation. This isn't your older brother's grunge. Opening with the hard-driving "Brain Of J," YIELD goes from a punky swagger representing man's ...
| | Better Than Ezra Friction, Baby CD (1996)
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All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Better Than Ezra's second album contains the same vibrant brand of alternative rock that made the band's 1995 debut a commercial smash. The New Orleans band is clearly influenced by such melodic modern bands as the Cure and R.E.M., but Better Than Ezra loves to rock out as well; FRICTION, BABY relies heavily on grunge power chords. The band's lyrics, built around ...
| | Better Than Ezra How Does Your Garden Grow? CD (1998)
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Principally recorded at Fudge, New Orleans, Louisiana between January 19 and March 30, 1998.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Better Than Ezra is the kind of band that knows how to go with the musical flow, using their chameleonic qualities to adapt to the changing musical times. They emerged in the wake of Nirvana as post-grunge rockers, full of bad-boy attitude and plangent guitars. On GARDEN they shift ...
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Kenny Barron and Jimmy Owens' first recording was a solid debut. The exciting title cut, "You Had Better Listen," composed by Jimmy Owens, is good, basic, uptempo jazz, nothing fancy, no frills. The Jimmy Owens-Kenny Barron Quintet doesn't condescend like some jazz artists tend to do; casuals can groove, relate, nod their heads in approval and feel righteous about it. Owens plays some beautiful trumpet scales, while Barron keeps busy banging chord progressions. The other members of the quintet are Benny Maupin (tenor sax, flute), Chris White (bass), Freddie Waits (drums on tracks one, two and four), and Rudy Collins (drums on tracks three through five). Owens' sparkling ...
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| | George Carlin What Am I Doing In New Jersey? CD (1988)
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What Am I Doing in New Jersey was recorded in 1988, so naturally it tackles some of the events of the late Reagan administration. George Carlin sums up his essence on the track "Reagan's Gang, Church People, and American Values": "I'm the first to say its a great country, but its a strange culture!" He rants about preventative detainment, censorship, and the paradoxes of the Right to Life movement -- all of which is biting, but not very funny. Then, about seven minutes ...
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