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''Seen a Ghost'' is an album by the American
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band
Honeydogs The Honeydogs is a band from Saint Paul, Minnesota that opened at First Avenue in 1994. History The band's popularity grew after signing with record label Mercury Records, and their major label debut album '' Seen a Ghost'' in 1997.Horak, Ter ...
, released in 1997. It was the band's first album for a major label. The band supported the album by opening for INXS on a North American tour.


Production

Recorded at
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, the album was produced by Tom Herbers and the band, and mixed by Nick DiDia.
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contributed Hammond organ.


Critical reception

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'' called the album "this decade's freshest-sounding blast of folk-rock neoclassicism." The ''
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'' wrote that "this is a pure-pop band, one that cheerfully raids country, rock, r&b and psychedelia." Werner Trieschmann, of the ''
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'', considered the band one of the first of an inevitable wave of copies of
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, writing that "this one won't be the worst, I can guarantee, but that's not an endorsement either." ''
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'' deemed Honeydogs "a real rock band," writing that "no frills guitars combine with the gentle purr of a Wurlitzer or the drone of a fiddle for extra flavor." The '' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' listed ''Seen a Ghost'' as the fifth best album of 1997, writing that it "sidles up to an easygoing collection of pop songs and country rockers all of them unassuming, irony-free and irresistible." The '' St. Paul Pioneer Press'' opined: "Refusing to give up on the heartland strains that have fueled the group for so long, the Honeydogs are more secure in its abilities."
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called the album "a charming collection of Beatlesque pop, demonstrating the group's knack for bright, catchy melodies and ringing guitars."


Track listing


References

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