Uncle Green's major-label debut also happens to be the band's best album, and sadly, its last. Having won a contract with Atlantic on the strength of 1991's What an Experiment His Head Was, the Atlanta band traveled to California with longtime producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Matthew Sweet)... [+] Expand

Uncle Green's major-label debut also happens to be the band's best album, and sadly, its last. Having won a contract with Atlantic on the strength of 1991's What an Experiment His Head Was, the Atlanta band traveled to California with longtime producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Matthew Sweet) and returned with a full-fledged rock album, complete with shimmering guitars, raunchy grooves, and crisp production. Lyrically, Book Of Bad Thoughts finds songwriters Matt Brown and Jeff Jensen less concerned with turning a cute, ironic phrase than fully exploring the experience of love/hate relationships. Book is roughly a concept record about cheating lovers: "She's Storing It Up" is the harrowing tale of a cheat whose spouse knows what he's doing but doesn't show it; "He Woke Up Naked" uses grotesque imagery to paint the picture of the morning after an unplanned affair; "The Blue Light" finds a cheated soul consoling himself and trying to live through the pain. Two songs from Experiment are included on the album, partly as an effort to present the group's best material to wider audiences, and partly because the two ("I Don't Wanna Know About It" and "I Always Knew You'd Come To Me") fit very well with the overall theme. Book of Bad Thoughts is a little-heard gem -- a '90s rock record of the highest order, it didn't fare well on the pop circuits and turned out to be Uncle Green's last album proper. The band would release one more album in 1995 under the name of 3 lb. Thrill. ~ Troy Carpenter, All Music Guide [-] Collapse

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