My Way or the Highway (Tuscadero album)

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My Way or the Highway
Studio album by
Tuscadero
Released1998
GenreIndie rock
LabelTeen Beat Records/Elektra Records[1]
ProducerKeith Cleversley
Tuscadero chronology
Step into My Wiggle Room EP
(1995) 		My Way or the Highway
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]
Knoxville News Sentinel[5]

My Way or the Highway is an album by the American indie rock band Tuscadero, released in 1998.[6][7]

Production[]

The band devoted more time to constructing the songs, while also attempting to avoid creating an overly slick record.[8] Guitar players Melissa Farris and Margaret McCartney often employed fuzz tones on the album, and also made use of technically inferior "trashy" sound equipment.[9] The album was produced by Keith Cleversley.[10]

Critical reception[]

The Washington Post thought that "the band's appeal does get lost in the ornate production of a few of these tracks, notably the over-orchestrated 'Dr. Doom' and the anti-super model 'Paper Dolls', which rides its funky sax sound to the six-minute mark."[11] Robert Christgau praised the "songcraft as end-in-itself."[3]

Tulsa World called the album "fun, gritty pop," noting Farris's "reverence for the Pretenders/Blondie ethos."[12] Entertainment Weekly opined that "sonic departures like the slinky antifashion anthem 'Paper Dolls' and the flamboyantly James Bondish 'Dr. Doom' neatly transcend alt-guitar-rock limitations."[4] The Dayton Daily News wrote: "Meaty hooks and solid crunch back up songs that mostly pick on campus rock-band preptiles who overindulge in, um, passably clever pop-cultural strip mining."[13]

AllMusic wrote that the "heady concoction of fizzy pop hooks, teen melodrama, slamming punk, and misfit glee makes My Way or the Highway an intoxicating punk-pop rush."[2]

Track listing[]

No.TitleLength
1."Queen For a Day" 
2."Paper Dolls" 
3."Freak Magnet" 
4."Not My Johnny" 
5."Hot Head" 
6."Tiny Shiny Boyfriend" 
7."Dr. Doom" 
8."Tickled Pink" 
9."Evil Eye" 
10."You Got Your Pride" 
11."Cathy Ray" 
12."Liquid Center" 
13."Temper Temper" 
14."Mutiny" 

References[]

  1. ^ "Tuscadero". Trouser Press. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  2. ^ a b "My Way or the Highway - Tuscadero | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ a b "Robert Christgau: Album: Tuscadero: My Way or the Highway". robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ a b "My Way or the Highway". EW.com.
  5. ^ Campbell, Chuck (April 24, 1998). "Tuscadero finds joy on the 'Highway'". Knoxville News Sentinel. p. T10.
  6. ^ "Tuscadero Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  7. ^ Kearney, Mary Celeste (July 13, 2017). "Gender and Rock". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "TUSCADERO IN THE PINK WITH NEW ALBUM, `MY WAY'". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  9. ^ Swenson, Kyle (Jul 1998). "Tuscadero". Guitar Player. 32 (7): 51–52.
  10. ^ DeRogatis, Jim (September 25, 1998). "Show time - Clubs feel heat of fall". Chicago Sun-Times. Weekend Plus. p. 5.
  11. ^ "TUSCADERO 'MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY' ELEKTRA". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  12. ^ "Reviews of Recently Released CDs". Tulsa World. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  13. ^ Rollins, Ron (15 May 1998). "RECORDINGS IN BRIEF". Dayton Daily News. Go!. p. 19.
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