The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? POLL

http://open.spotify.com/album/1GAbBjwbHehUKEK61mtqYy

I don't even know. I just voted for "Wise Up". One of my favorite albums by one of my favorite bands. I think I have a new favorite Waitresses song every time I listen to them (currently: "The Smartest Person I Know").

Pussy Strut.

listening to this for the first time bc of this thread

it's great!

I got a nice 12" of Christmas Wrapping (long version) for 49p just before Christmas

great, great album, I have decided I need to be a completist w/this band.

Who did "the girls have to dance with the girls because the boys won't dance" ?

That's the Waitresses. I think that song's called "The Comb".

And yes, sleeve, the Waitresses demand completism.

Oh, it *is* on the Akron compilation (Stiff), will have to re-find it there.

Saw them in Evanston, IL on this tour, it was wild to see Ficca on drums. I remember that show fondly.

^^^ I saw them in Minneapolis, probably just about the same time. Yeah, fond memories.

The line "Am I a magnet for losers? A net for the helpless?" from "Go On" goes through my head often, so I'm picking that one, out of many. Great record.

Title track. The showstopper in the greatest stage musical that never was (i.e. this album).

I can narrow it down to three ("No Guilt", "Pussy Strut", and "Jimmy Tomorrow"), but that's about it. There's a slight lull from "I Know What Boys Like" through "Redland" imo but the rest of this album is pretty much flawless. So much I wish I could say about this band but I become very incoherent when I try to write about music; I would just end up quoting lyrics all day. Anyway, this is an absurdly great record and more people need to hear it!

No Guilt 4eva

Inspired by this thread, I bought the Hurrah's DVD and the King Biscuit live CD. Now all I need is the Akron comp and a nice copy of Bruiseology.

I need to get more familiar with Bruiseology. My copy's purple vinyl, and I don't play it often tbh.

No Guilt vs. title track vs...Redland?

I'll be glad when the flag goes up
New uniforms if they know my sizes
I'll make new friends when I go to the meetings
It won't be better but I'll settle for different

I like to point friends to "No Guilt" once they've picked themselves up and dusted themselves off after a breakup. Such an anthem.

There was a day or two a couple of weeks ago when pretty much every post or comment I made on Facebook was Waitresses-related. I occasionally get evangelical.

I recently found out that Patty Donahue is buried in the same cemetery as my grandparents.

Yeah, break it to us all gently, right?

wow, this album was released 5 days after i was born. we both turn 31 this week!

It has to be I Know What Boys Like but this is a great album all the way through. Think I slightly prefer the second album, not sure if that's just down to how much I love Make The Weather.

Also only came to this record thanks to this poll, and yeah, it's pretty great. Far more Talking Heads-y than the novelty-ish single best known to me via The Last American Virgin would suggest. Voted Jimmy Tomorrow mostly on the strength of that closing lyric..

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voted for Pussy Strut btw

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-waitresses-wasnt-tomorrow-wonderful/

A fully deserved 8.2 rating, but the writer has some strange interpretations of the lyrics. On 'No Guilt': "Donahue’s shrugged-off delivery sounds like someone who’s hiding from heartache by deep-cleaning their oven." There's no hidden heartache here, it's a celebration of resiliency and moving on.

'It's My Car' is not about a couple arguing, it's clearly a carfull of friends on a road trip.

And Tom Tomorrow is not the cartoonist, it's Tom Snyder.

10+ years after the fact, kudos to Old Lunch for "Nutzhak Perlman." I just snorted coffee.

lol, my pleasure, Dan.

or should I say

NO GUILT!

it was an odd review, a lot of time on Akron. Still, glad they have something up besides that Zoladz piece, the Waitresses deserved better.

xps re: "No Guilt," I always thought the "I'm doing alright, everything's great" lines at the end of the song sounded like they were masking a bit of heartache, but I also don't necessarily think that was intentional. That's obviously not what the rest of the song is going for.

I just learned that "Tom Tomorrow" was referring to Tom Snyder yesterday after years of being confused about that! And now I love that song even more. I'm also wondering if Tom Tomorrow the cartoonist has ever disclosed the origin of his pen name -- it'd be fantastic to find out he actually got it from the Waitresses song.

Another weird thing about the Pitchfork review is that the album is tagged as "Electronic" on the Pitchfork homepage. ("Electronic / Rock" on the review itself, which still doesn't make much sense.)

The pithy jazz-punk track “Wise Up” swaps the suburban apartment for a drab and purposeless office.

Why is "No Guilt" set in a "suburban" apartment? Based on a few of the lines, I assume it's an apartment in a city (New York, specifically).