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- Golden Delicious
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Mike Doughty
Released 2008

Fort Hood
03:17
9,929 plays

I Just Want the Girl In the Blue Dress
03:49
9,391 plays

Put It Down
03:58
9,041 plays

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- 1
- Fort Hood
- 03:17
- 9,929 plays

- 2
- I Just Want the Girl In the Blue Dress
- 03:49
- 9,391 plays

- 3
- Put It Down
- 03:58
- 9,041 plays

- 4
- More Bacon Than The Pan Can Handle
- 01:39
- 6,506 plays

- 5
- 27 Jennifers (2007)
- 03:13
- 12,439 plays

- 6
- I Wrote A Song About Your Car
- 03:23
- 7,444 plays

- 7
- I Got The Drop On You
- 02:08
- 6,719 plays

- 8
- Wednesday (Contra La Puerta)
- 04:03
- 6,101 plays

- 9
- Like A Luminous Girl
- 03:24
- 6,837 plays

- 10
- Nectarine (Part One)
- 03:15
- 4,978 plays

- 11
- Navigating The Stars At Night
- 05:22
- 5,832 plays

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album review

On 2005's Haughty Melodic, Mike Doughty took steps to move away from his purely acoustic solo material, bringing in piano and horns to fill out his sound. Golden Delicious stretches even further into radio-friendly adult alternative, and in fact little resembles the singer's earlier work. "27 Jennifers," which was originally found on the 2003 EP Rockity Roll, is revisited here, with added electric guitars and a swirling keyboard solo that might have come straight out of 1986, and the song ends up being one of the better ones on the album. Elsewhere, many of the melodies and arrangements are similar (the first two tracks, for example, "Fort Hood" and "I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing," are nearly identical, except the former's chorus chooses to borrow from Galt MacDermot's "Let the Sunshine In," while the latter riffs on "The Little Drummer Boy"), but there are still moments on Golden Delicious that show what Doughty is capable of. For example, he holds back on the production and instrumentation and lets his acoustic guitar chords and voice take over in the darker "I Got the Drop on You," which references his Soul Coughing days while still coming across as an original. And while "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle" is intended as a nod to his love of hip-hop and sampling but is pure kitsch instead, there are other songs -- the aforementioned "I Got the Drop on You," the Death Cabby "Wednesday (No Se Apoye)," even "I Wrote a Song About Your Car" -- that successfully demonstrate Doughty's abilities. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide