Too Far To Care
by Old 97's

Too Far To Care by Old 97's
Year: 1997
Release date: 1997-06-17
Overall rank: 4,419th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 62 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1997 (68th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (717th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,419th)

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Too Far To Care is ranked as the best album by Old 97's.

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Overall rank: 4,419th | 1990s rank: 717th | 1997 rank: 68th

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75/100 (from 62 votes)
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Too Far to Care if the best hybrid of melodic punk and folk/western that I have ever heard.

The lyrics are very self-loathing (Too Far to Care) and often angry at women who did not return the singer's love (Salome, Nightclub), but it's a nice balance here between the downers and uppers. You will enjoy this one over and over again.

Essential.

A Side: Timebomb
B Side: Big Brown Eyes
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100/100
Hearing Exene of Four Leaf Clover made me sit up and say, "What?" Then I listened to the rest. it's one of those albums that never seems to leave me. Time Bomb" and "Night Club" are my favorites. "Solome" is a heartbreaker with the incredibel line, "It's over now/ and so are we/ my blood's turned to dirt, girl/you've wrecked every part of me." Ouch!
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Too Far to Care combines alt-country and surf rock in a way that feels loose and spontaneous, with Rhett Miller's lyrics sounding plausibly like they could have been written on the back of a cocktail napkin. But this album is far from sloppy or unfocused. The band, pushed along by Ken Bethea’s gonzo guitar licks and Philip Peeple’s insistent drumming, manages a coherent whole here that is by turns comical and genuinely affecting. My favorite track here is the hopelessly combustive "Four Leaf Clover," a reworking of a song from their debut album Hitchhike to Rhome, featuring a fantastic guest appearance by former X frontwoman Exene Cervenka.
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