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Buffalo Tom
 (Beggars Banquet/PolyDor) Some pop songs are so classic, they make you want to get out of your car and dance and sing along without a care in the world every time you hear them. "Soda Jerk," off of Buffalo Tom's Big Red Letter Day, is one of those songs. And Buffalo Tom is one of those bands. Smitten holds a few more songs that fit right into the pop music canon. While there may not be a contender to "Soda Jerk," Smitten keeps with the Buffalo Tom style of seemingly innocent songs, like "Rachael," "White Paint Morning" and "See to Me," and sad ballads like "Knot in It," but falls a bit flat with "The Bible" and "Scottish Windows," which try to be a bit more poetic than they really should. Still, Buffalo Tom is reminiscent of a certain street in Knoxville, Tenn., where if you stand in front of the CD store, you can look over almost the whole city. They manage to encompass a genuine down-home nostalgia to their music, sort of like that intense feeling of awareness of the land you're standing on, when you can see over a whole city like that from a sidewalk. - annie holub
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