dbt tracks #129 - Purgatory Line and Home Field Advantage

[Clams]

Okay yes, the pickin's are getting slim. The Shonna T theme continues.

These two finish off BTCD for song of the week purposes. I actually think Purgatory Line works well enough on the record. Homefield Advantage, not so much. Probably my least favorite song on a record I like very, very much.


Homefield Advantage
You ain't much of a player and you ain't playin' for free.
You just know all the chatter and you've been chattin' at me.
Now you're takin' me down with a home field advantage.
And you're callin' me out with a home field advantage.

You may have thrown me a curveball. Yeah, you threw a doozie at me.
You ain't too fast cause you're so tall. You threw a doozie at me.
And now you're takin' me down with a home field advantage.
And you're callin' me out with a home field advantage.

You don't know what to do. Yeah, you're lookin' around.
Nobody's at home and you don't know the count.
Well, you break and run just to tie it up.

You're takin' me down with a home field advantage.
And you're callin' me out with a home field advantage.


Purgatory Line
This ain't exactly hell.
It sure as hell ain't heaven.
I love you like the dickens and I miss you like the Devil.
I guess I'll do my time waitin' in this purgatory line.
Angels here are wearin' fancy new perfume,
and all the bread's unleavened.
Well I guess it'll have to do till I find you.
I don't know what I'm doin' here or why
I'm waitin' in this purgatory line.

I ain't exactly up.
I ain't gone too far down.
I'm lookin' for some answers and there ain't no one around.
I guess I'll lose my mind waitin' in this purgatory line.
If Jesus walked on water then where'd he get them shoes?
It just keeps gettin' harder to lose these walkin' blues.
I want you to come and take me home for a while.
Save me from this purgatory line.

Sometimes I can laugh.
Other times I cry.
It ain't exactly funny. My feet are both on fire.
I guess they'll just burn for a while waitin' in this purgatory line.
Lovin' you is so easy, but waitin' here just ain't.
I know I can be patient, but please don't hesitate to cross my mind.
That's all I've got for a while.
Waitin' in this purgatory line.

[Duke Silver]

homefield advantage offends me as a baseball fan. wtf is happening in the third verse?

[Gang Green]

I like Purgatory Line, I'm not nuts about Homefield. Saw them do Homefield Advantage at my first Truckers show in Charlston, WV in 2009. It was back to back with Get Downtown which was several months from being released.

[Zip City]

Kinda love Purgatory Line. One of her better lyrics, and a true throwback in style. Reminds me of the Sandy Rogers track on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack or the Maria McKee track from Pulp Fiction.

[Iowan]

Neither of these songs do much for me. Would both be part of the BTCD purge I have suggested in the past to make it a top-shelf DBT record.

[RevMatt]

Neither of these songs do much for me. Would both be part of the BTCD purge I have suggested in the past to make it a top-shelf DBT record.

I already think BTCD is a top shelf DBT album. But there is no consensus on this board as to which albums are top shelf.

I always thought "Home Field Advantage" is about a woman hitting on the narrator. She calls her bluff and the woman doing the hitting doesn't really know what to do.

Always loved "Purgatory Line".

[Iowan]

Neither of these songs do much for me. Would both be part of the BTCD purge I have suggested in the past to make it a top-shelf DBT record.

I already think BTCD is a top shelf DBT album. But there is no consensus on this board as to which albums are top shelf.

I always thought "Home Field Advantage" is about a woman hitting on the narrator. She calls her bluff and the woman doing the hitting doesn't really know what to do.

Always loved "Purgatory Line".

I would put it towards the bottom.

Maybe the bottom. Its a good 7-8 songs too long. Its still a very good album that contains DBT classics, but its just bloated to me.

[Smitty]

Not a fan of shortening BTCD; it's still the same album, if you don't like a song, skip it.
Not a fan of HFA, although musically it does kick ass. Will Johnson's vocals were wasted on this one, though.
Love Purgatory Line - definitely either my favorite or 2nd fav Shonna tune, goes back and forth with "You Got Another". Also love the placement between "That Man I Shot" & "The Home Front" - couldn't imagine that album without it. Definitely one of the tunes that gives BTCD it's color.

[Iowan]

Not a fan of shortening BTCD; it's still the same album, if you don't like a song, skip it.

I see your point, but IMO if you skip nearly half the songs on an album, its not reaching greatness, no matter how awesome the songs you don't skip are.

[Smitty]

Not a fan of shortening BTCD; it's still the same album, if you don't like a song, skip it.

I see your point, but IMO if you skip nearly half the songs on an album, its not reaching greatness, no matter how awesome the songs you don't skip are.

I gotcha, my guess is it'd be hard to get anywhere close a consensus to what songs to take off (as it's hard to get a concensus on literally anything to do with the Truckers, lol)
I honestly wouldn't take any song off BTCD; my least favorite and the one I skip the most is "That Man I Shot", but as the sole balls-out rocker on the album, not sure if I'd take it off.

[Clams]

Neither of these songs do much for me. Would both be part of the BTCD purge I have suggested in the past to make it a top-shelf DBT record.

I already think BTCD is a top shelf DBT album. But there is no consensus on this board as to which albums are top shelf.

I always thought "Home Field Advantage" is about a woman hitting on the narrator. She calls her bluff and the woman doing the hitting doesn't really know what to do.

Always loved "Purgatory Line".

Of course a reverend's gonna like Purgatory Line. Goes without saying.

What os the Will Johnson connection on HFA? The only part of that song that I really like is that intro bit.

Iowan, as usual, you are pissing me off with the dissin' of BTCD.

[Smitty]

Will J sings harmony on HFA.

[Clams]

Will J sings harmony on HFA.

I did not know that. He was probably all excited when Patterson called him over. "Al right!! What song do you want me on... 3 Dimes? Righteous Path? Daddy Needs a Drink? Opening Act? Ghost to Most?" Then they were like, "No, uh, we were thinking, um, Home Field Advantage..."

[UncleFrank1990]

I always thought of BTCD as DBT's "Exile On Main St." Great album, a little wobbly at parts, but it's not the same without that wobble.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Probably my least favorite DBTs album. I don't think it's bad but there are other albums of theirs I enjoy much more, such as the first four.

[colodogdoc]

Will J sings harmony on HFA.

Ah. This explains why the one time I heard this song live (Aspen, 2009, Aspen Jazz Festival) was easily the worse single-song performance I have ever experienced at a DBT show. Patterson was trying to sing harmony and it was a train wreck.

[John A Arkansawyer]

After getting Southern Rock Opera right after it came out and losing my mind, the next three records didn't make that big an impression on me. I checked them out from the library, and a few songs really connected, but as records, they just didn't catch me. Then came the Rock and Roll Means Well tour and Brighter than Creation's Dark. That record--man! I played it over and over, and actually kept Stay Positive (bought the same day) in the wrapper for about a week till I could check it out for the first time with a friend. That and SRO are the ones that defined DBT for me, that and the Rock Show, and in many ways still do.

[Iowan]

Neither of these songs do much for me. Would both be part of the BTCD purge I have suggested in the past to make it a top-shelf DBT record.

I already think BTCD is a top shelf DBT album. But there is no consensus on this board as to which albums are top shelf.

I always thought "Home Field Advantage" is about a woman hitting on the narrator. She calls her bluff and the woman doing the hitting doesn't really know what to do.

Always loved "Purgatory Line".

Of course a reverend's gonna like Purgatory Line. Goes without saying.

What os the Will Johnson connection on HFA? The only part of that song that I really like is that intro bit.

Iowan, as usual, you are pissing me off with the dissin' of BTCD.

I know I'm the lone BTCD mild-disliker. I'll own that.

That said, I still think there are some straight-up top shelf DBT tracks on that album.