| Every Dog Has His Day | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1988 | |||
| Label | I.R.S. [1] | |||
| Producer | John Leckie, Mitch Easter | |||
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Every Dog Has His Day is an album by the American band Let's Active, released in 1988. [2] [3] It was the band's final album. [4]
The title track peaked at No. 17 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. [5] The band promoted the album by touring with Velvet Elvis. [6]
Recorded in Wales, the album was produced by John Leckie and frontman Mitch Easter. [7] It was mixed at Abbey Road Studios. [8] Determined that the album be more of a band effort, Let's Active also worked to create a heavier sound. [9] New member John Heames played bass on Every Dog Has His Day. [10]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [11] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [12] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [13] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [14] |
Trouser Press wrote that "the best songs ... are classic Easter: unsettled emotional lyrics and eccentric pop melodies that have him straining on vocal tiptoes to reach the hard bits." [15] The Chicago Reader called the album "lush and bountiful and weird: a gorgeous song like 'Horizon' ... has a twangy feedback that turbocharges the backing track." [16]
The Globe and Mail determined that "Easter's heavily layered approach to his sixties psychedelia, punk and pop roots [allow] the band to put all sorts of new twists on old sounds." [17] The Orlando Sentinel stated that "two things dominate from beginning to end—jangling rock 'n' roll guitar and sharp, witty writing." [13] The Omaha World-Herald opined that "Easter's trademark, nasal singing occasionally can be irritating, but that is easily overshadowed by the band's high-energy guitars." [18]
AllMusic wrote that the album "features an overall heavier vibe, with the band rocking like never before, emphasizing a love of hard rock only briefly hinted at on earlier albums, and it's all done very well." [11] The Rolling Stone Album Guide concluded that "muscular drumming and raucous powerchords now augment the jangly guitar of yore." [14]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Every Dog Has His Day" | |
| 2. | "Horizon" | |
| 3. | "Sweepstakes Winner" | |
| 4. | "Orpheus in Hades Lounge" | |
| 5. | "Mr. Fool" | |
| 6. | "Ten Layers Down" | |
| 7. | "Too Bad" | |
| 8. | "Night Train" | |
| 9. | "Forty Years" | |
| 10. | "Bad Machinery" | |
| 11. | "I Feel Funny" | |
| 12. | "Terminate" |
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