Workbook

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Workbook album cover
Album Information
  • Artist: Bob Mould (See All Albums by Bob Mould)

  • Date Released: Apr 21, 2008

  • Genre: Rock/Pop, Style: Rock

  • Label: VIRGIN

  • Copyright: (P) 2008 The copyright in this compilation is owned by Virgin Records America Inc

Total Tracks: 17   Total Length: 83:55

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Perfect (almost) Album

Geo529

There are a few albums I think are perfection - this is very near perfection. I dont think the last song (as it was on the cd, which is Whichever Way the Wind Blows) fits that well on this album. Probably better for Black Sheets of Rain. But the rest of this album, for me, is flawless perfection and incredible. It doesn't hurt to be an emotional teenager when this came out also! Besides Bob's work with Sugar, this is some of my favorite work of his. And I've seen him a bunch of times in concert -- he puts on a great show.

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Emotion = Great Art

Lucky12

I don't normally write reviews, but I had to give this a nod because there was only one other review and it was THREE STARS??? No way. I could tolerate 4 stars, but I'd put it in the 4.75. I also had the album in high school and rediscovered it recently. Emotion = Great Art. Yes, this is a very emotional album. Who cares about the "emo" label? Written at a time when Mould was experiencing problems in a long-term relationship, this album is timeless. From the classical guitar style introduction song, Sunspots - to the passion felt in the orchestral sounds of Wishing Well - and then the hopefulness of See A Little Light. This album is worth every penny - in 1989 and today.

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Husker Who?

5from2

Workbook came out my senior year of high school. At the time, it was a revelation: punk rock doesn't have to be angry and screaming all the time. However, listening to it again--22 years later--it occurs to me that Mould WAS screaming and angry. A bit more nuanced and subtle, but still angry. I was anxiously awaiting this album's appearance on eMusic, but now that it is here, I realize that I made it more in my mind that it really was. Still good, just not as great as I remember as an 18-year old punk. Workbook may very well be the last real emo record before emo became a commercial commidity (for the brief time that it was anyway).

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