Warner Bros / Wea
1991
Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired
About This Album
It's too bad that Dan Baird's always going be remembered as that gap-toothed guy singing "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" from the back of a pickup truck on a primitive Georgia Satellites video. Always a great a live band, it's unfortunate that the band never quite got it together on the album front. Although they made some good records, they would never come close to capturing their in-concert abandon on tape. On his first solo effort, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired, Satellite frontman Dan Baird finally managed to cut loose and assemble a string of first-rate tunes highlighted by the tongue in cheek radio hit "I Love You Period." Brilliantly produced by ex-Satellite Brendan O'Brien, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired gets off to a rip-roaring start with the call and response of "The One I Am." Baird admits, "I can't afford to buy you no four star dinner/but by god, my love's a winner." And heck, how could you not believe him? As the singer bows in with his next tale of down-home, dysfunctional romance (and pregnancy) on "Julie + Lucky," his acute sense of the English vocabulary allows him to juxtapose a series of serious themes spinning them into some not so serious ones.
Track List (try tracks 1,5,7 and 8)

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