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Crushing Love (2006)

Some Girls

Cover artwork for Crushing Love (2006)

Track list

  1. Is This What I've Been Waiting For?
  2. Poor Man's You
  3. Partner in Crime
  4. Hooray For L.A.
  5. Social Control
  6. On My Own Again
  7. Stars In My Dreams
  8. Rock Or Pop?
  9. Live Alone
  10. Just Like That
  11. He's On Drugs Again
  12. Never Really Mine
  13. Kill the Bottle
  14. Magnetic Fields

(released with bonus DVD 11 July 2006 on Koch Records. The DVD is approximately 15 minutes long featuring live snippets from the Feel It shows including Robot City, Partner In Crime, He’s On Drugs Again, When I Let My Guard Down, The Prettiest Girl, Necessito, Native Tongue.)

Taking up Koch Records’ option for a second album, the ‘side project’ returns with 14 more alt-pop tunes. More vocal and songwriting contributions from Freda Love and Heidi Gluck than on Feel It and better for it.

Heidi’s two contributions are wondrous melodies – Live Alone and On My Own - which on first listen, belie the bleak lyrics. Some of Freda’s best songwriting moments are the opener Is This What I’ve Been Waiting For? and the sublime melody of Partner In Crime (both co-written with Freda’s husband Jake Smith).

Just Like That is notable as it sees Juliana performing a song written about her (by one-time beau Joe Keefe) as she did way back in 1993 on the Lemonheads’ Its About Time.

The cover of the Sardina's He’s On Drugs Again gets the studio treatment having been a live favourite on the Feel It tour.

Released with no supporting tour, Crushing Love is a lovely record and perhaps a more immediate pleasure than its excellent predecessor.

Personnel

Juliana Hatfield - vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica
Heidi Gluck - bass, vocals, lap steel, keyboards and guitar on "Live Alone" Freda Love - drums and vocals
Jake Smith - additional guitar on "Magnetic Fields" and backing vocals on "Is This What I've Been Waiting For?"
Josh Berwanger - banjo on "On My Own Again"
Tony Whitlock - recorder on "Rock Or Pop?"

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Reviews

Q Magazine
Q Magazine

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Some Girls — Crushing Love

Q, November 2006

SOME GIRLS — Crushing Love — KOCH — ★★★☆☆

Former grunge pin-up's dowdy new band.

In the mid-'90s, sometime Lemonheads collaborator Juliana Hatfield seemed on the cusp of solo success, her rich vocals hampered only by mediocre material. A decade later, as Some Girls' frontwoman, she's made some progress. The likes of Kill The Bottle and Just Like That are sprightly radio rock and Live Alone is pleasantly wistful. But the quality control does slip in places: Hooray For LA is as asinine as the title implies. The neo-totalitarian Social Control ("Free people need social control", indeed), meanwhile, has lines as dismal as "He spilled his beer in my cleavage/So I slapped him in the face".

Phil Mongredien

DOWNLOAD: Live Alone → Just Like That

Promo CD titled 'Society'

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The promo CD suggests that 'Crushing Love' was a late change of title.