Poor Aim: Love Songs
| Poor Aim: Love Songs | ||||
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| EP by | ||||
| Released | November 2, 2004; re-released April 24, 2007 | |||
| Label | States Rights Records/Slender Means Society; re-release K Records | |||
| Producer | The Blow | |||
| The Blow chronology | ||||
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Poor Aim: Love Songs is an EP by The Blow originally released in 2004 by States Rights Records/Slender Means Society.[1] It was re-released in 2007 by K Records with remixed bonus tracks.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [3] |
| Pitchfork Media | (8.0/10)[4] |
Exclaim! gave the album a positive review, calling it "Nintendo music intended for dancing, or folk singer songs remixed by an electro pop-loving hipster." They especially praised the final track on the re-release, "We Are Over Here".[5]
Track listing
- "Hey Boy"
- "The Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide"
- "Knowing the Things That I Know"
- "Let's Play Boys Chase Girls"
- "The Love That I Crave"
- "Hock It"
- "Come on Petunia"
All tracks were written by Jona Bechtolt and Khaela Maricich, except "The Sky Opened Wide Like the Tide", which was written by Bechtolt, Maricich, and Anna Oxygen.[3] The refrain and part of the lyric from "Come on Petunia" was taken from "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", a song written by Sting of The Police.[6]
References
- ^ Poor Aim: Love Songs from Slender Means Society
- ^ Poor Aim: Love Songs with Remixes Archived 2011-05-25 at the Wayback Machine at K Records
- ^ a b Allmusic review
- ^ Pitchfork Media review Archived 2007-04-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Burke, Jasmyn (April 2007). Review of Poor Aim: Love Songs from Exclaim!
- ^ Bernard, Riese (September 8, 2014). "28 Gay Girl Covers Of Straight Songs Because Everything's Better When It's Queered". Autostraddle. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
