John Doe, For the Best of Us - 35m 20s

Tracks & Durations

1. A Step Outside	3:57
2. Let's Get Lost	3:39
3. The Unhappy Song	3:02
4. Bad, Bad Feeling	2:02
5. This Loving Thing	3:44
6. Criminal	4:30
7. Broken Smile	3:51
8. Come Home	2:50
9. Zero	4:11
10. Vigilante Man	3:26

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Review

John Doe's 2005 album Forever Hasn't Happened Yet ranked among his best work, both as a solo performer and with '80s punk linchpins, X. And for the follow-up, the Los Angeles crooner has reissued a long-lost treasure: the 1998 EP For the Rest of Us, which he has rechristened with a supplementary five songs taken from the same recording sessions. Ever autonomous and venturesome, Doe backed up "A Step Outside" and "Let's Get Lost" with then-members of Beck's backing band, before propelling into the soul of the album: the self-deprecating "Unhappy Song," the raggedly satisfying "Bad Bad Feeling," and "This Loving Thing," cowritten with Foo Fighter Dave Grohl. The five extra tracks include the Woody Guthrie cover "Vigilante Man," and "Criminal," where Doe's voice--one of rock music's best--tells of the forlorn and those who catch them. And only Exene Cervenka is absent from the rabid "Come Home," which plays more like a leftover from Wild Gift than any solo session. --Scott Holter

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