The Buck Pets were victims of bad timing. Had 1990's Mercurotones been released only a couple of years later in a post-Nevermind world, they would have had a really good shot at at least temporary stardom on the level of, say, Soul Asylum. For one thing, producer Michael Beinhorn gives this album the same radio-friendly gloss he gave to SA's breakthrough Grave Dancers Union two years later. (Indeed, the Dallas-based group proved a good half-decade ahead of the curve, having the Dust Brothers produce one track, the slippery "Libertine," long before Beck hooked up with them to create Odelay.) The group's songs are a rocking mix of late-period Hüsker Dü, Squirrel Bait, and Pleased to Meet Me-era Replacements, with the frantic edge softened by a country-ish twang here and there. Good solid stuff that deserved to be much bigger than it was.
Mercurotones
The Buck Pets
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Mercurotones Review
by Stewart Mason
Track Listing
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2 | The Buck Pets | 03:07 | Amazon | ||||
3 | The Buck Pets | 03:43 | Amazon | ||||
4 | The Buck Pets | 02:34 | Amazon | ||||
5 | The Buck Pets | 03:29 | Amazon | ||||
6 | The Buck Pets | 02:47 | Amazon | ||||
7 | The Buck Pets | 03:19 | Amazon | ||||
8 | The Buck Pets | 04:36 | Amazon | ||||
9 | The Buck Pets | 04:30 | Amazon | ||||
10 | The Buck Pets | 03:38 | Amazon | ||||
11 | The Buck Pets | 02:18 | Amazon | ||||
12 | The Buck Pets | 02:45 | Amazon |