Studio E. Records
2004
What Ever Happened To P.J. Soles? (Explicit)
About This Album
After chronicling the regrettable life and times of a going-nowhere rock dude on 1996's As Good as Dead and one band's humiliating and unsuccessful bid for the big time on 1998's Pack Up the Cats, Local H songwriter, guitarist, bassist, vocalist, and general point man Scott Lucas returns to his favorite theme -- failure -- on the band's fifth full-length album, 2004's Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? While it would be unfair and inaccurate to say Local H "failed," as an act whose commercial peak came with the mid-'90s grunge boom (whether they liked it or not) and went with the corporate reorganization of their record company not long after Pack Up the Cats was released, Lucas certainly has a perspective on what it's like to end up in the "didn't you used to be that guy?" file, and that experience seems to have informed much of the material on Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? The disc opens with the appropriately titled "Where Are They Now?," an 83-second rant with Lucas shouting "You're never gonna get it" over and over until it stings like a paper cut, which segues into "Everyone's Alive," a keyed-up meditation on the notion of picking up and moving on that also acknowledges the pain of the fall never really goes away.
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