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24 Hours a Day, 1997
Written by the Bottle Rockets
A solid alt-country lament about being stuck in the titular city due to a busted van. The lyrics are amusingly quotidian ("If I get that van back, man, the road I′m gonna burn / Right now my future's in the hands of the boys down at Firestone"), but there's a real sense of loss behind the banal. His girlfriend doesn't want to hear from him, he's forced to depend on the kindness of an ex-con, the jukebox won't even play anything good. It's the kind of down to earth wit found in an Old 97's song (indeed, it shares a similar attitude toward the Midwest with "Champaign, Illinois"), but making it less of a self-deprecating joke than Rhett Miller might, more grit behind a blue collar and a touch more acerbity.
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