{"id":437,"date":"2004-06-17T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/?p=437"},"modified":"2013-12-23T20:17:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T20:17:45","slug":"street-dogs-savin-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/music\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Dogs: Savin Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Street Dogs: Savin Hill\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Street Dogs: Savin Hill<br \/>\nLabel: Crosscheck<br \/>\nRelease Date: 2004<br \/>\nReview Date: 2004<\/p>\n<p>Mike McColgan, the original singer from the Dropkick Murphy\u2019s reunites with DM\u2019s drummer Jeff Erna and some other guys to form Savin Hill. Full of blatant localism (Boston, not JFA) and working class themes bordering on and crossing over into clich\u00e9s. Driving, heartfelt and sincere? Yes. Memorable? No, but like a good local bar band, they will probably prove popular with those in geographical proximity and younger wannabes trying to latch on to that particular scene. &#8220;2 Bottles of Sorrow&#8221; is pretty much the highpoint of the record, but you\u2019ve heard it before. Scratch that, high point is the cover of Borstal Breakout, but again  it\u2019s kind of  generic. &#8220;Declaration&#8221; might be good if the mix didn\u2019t drown out most of the mid tones in the vocals.  The whole album suffers from a generic mix in general that makes the songs bleed into one monotonous presentation, except for a slightly bizarre foray into 70\u2019s metal lead guitar on the last track, &#8220;Modern Day Labor Anthem.&#8221; Good ideas but the presentation dulls the message. Features guest appearances by Other DM\u2019s, Dickie from the Bosstones as well as other Boston punk luminaries. It&#8217;s not anything I&#8217;d need to hear regularly, but if you can guess what this record sounds like (and you probably can) and it&#8217;s your scene, then it won&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Online Action: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.street-dogs.com\">street-dogs.com<\/a><br \/>\nOnline Action: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosscheckrecords.com\">crosscheckrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Dogs: Savin Hill Label: Crosscheck Release Date: 2004 Review Date: 2004 Mike McColgan, the original singer from the Dropkick Murphy\u2019s reunites with DM\u2019s drummer Jeff Erna and some other guys to form Savin Hill. Full of blatant localism (Boston, not JFA) and working class themes bordering on and crossing over into clich\u00e9s. Driving, heartfelt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206474,206476],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-crosscheck-records","tag-street-dogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2004\/06\/street-dogs-savin-hill.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}