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Heralded by many as Tonio K.'s greatest release, this record does not age well, being rich in many trendy 1980s gimmicks (electric drums and glossy synthesizer work). It is also the least representative of his intellectual style, nearly all the songs being centered around the subject of relationships. Not a bad idea for a concept album but for the over-abundance of similar subject matter. Released in the wake of the PMRC, when the mainstream CCM market had little to offer in the way of challenging music, this release is good, but is far from up to par with most of his other work; the key phrase here is "safe territory." Try the long-delayed release Olé for a more well-rounded post-conversion release for Tonio K.. "Living Doll" is downright embarrassing given a post-'80s take on the lyrics. There is hidden gold to be found in the last two tracks: "You Don't Belong Here" and the T-Bone Burnett-produced "You Will Go Free." ~ Mark W. B. Allender
Originally released on A&M/What? in 1986, "Romeo Unchained" was the fourth in a string of critically-acclaimed releases that attracted a die-hard cult following. The album was unreleased on CD except for a small run by What? The album features more of Mr. K.'s bizarre musings on life, and also boasts some special guest stars.
Personnel: Tonio K. (guitar); Rick Neigher (vocals, guitar, synthesizer, drums); T Bone Burnett (guitar, drums); Nick VanMaarth, Daryl Caraco, Peter Banks, Billy Steele, Charlie Sexton (guitar); Bob Rose (synthesizer); Burleigh Drummond, Ron Aston, Freddy Alwag (drums); Efrain Toro (percussion).
Arrangers: Rick Neigher; Bob Rose.
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One of the best things about the late-'70s punk rock explosion is that it changed the rules for pop musicians across the board, and while Tonio K. wasn't a for-real punk rocker (or even really new wave), there's no way he could have made an album as willfully strange and bitterly witty as Life in the Foodchain without Elvis Costello or Johnny Rotten first raising the stakes in the rock outrage department. And it's a good thing; Tonio K. (aka Steve Krikorian) was actually a staunch Leftist moralist wearing the cloak of a raving lunatic, and on Life in ...
| | Tonio K Notes From The Lost Civilization CD (1988)
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| | Tonio K Amerika CD (1980)
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Happy nihilist Tonio K. returns after his critically acclaimed Life in the Foodchain with a stronger, even more sardonic record, Amerika. With tight riffs and intelligent lyrics, Tonio K. rocks hard on this one. But if an album's message can make one want to walk into traffic, this is it. Every song here espouses the end of all hope, the absence of values, the hopelessness of the human condition -- all sung with intelligence and wit (from "Say Goodbye": "The signs are everywhere/Only no one even cares/This paradise is dying/Say goodbye"). Most notable is the Dada tribute in the final track, "Merzsuite," which is divided into three sections ("Let Us Join Together in a Tune," "Umoré," ...
| | Tonio K Ole CD (1997)
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Tonio K's fifth full-length album was originally slated to be released in 1990 on the heels of Notes From the Lost Civilization, thus completing his trio of comeback recordings. Due to the inherent nature of corporate restructuring, however, this project was canned by A&M only to see the light of day seven years later courtesy of Gadfly Records. This album, while being denied a final mix due to financial and political constraints, continues stylistically in the vein of Notes From the Lost Civilization. Tonio K's patented form of intelligent funky roots rock and commentary-laced ballads is complemented greatly by a stellar cast of musicians like Peter Case, T Bone Burnett, Booker T. Jones, Bruce Thomas, David Hidalgo, Paul Westerberg, and Charlie Sexton. Co-produced by Burnett and David Miner Olé contains several intense and ...
| | Tonio K Rodent Weekend '76 - '96 CD (1998)
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This is an uneven rarities/retrospective package from one of pop music's most underrated writers and misunderstood characters -- uneven because that's the reality of Tonio K's professional career. Beginning as a member of the posthumous Buddy Holly backing band the Crickets in the early to mid-'70s under his given name Steve Krikorian, Tonio K made a real name for himself in the late '70s as America's outrageous answer to the British "angry young man" phenomenon carved out by Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson, among others. Needless to say he never achieved the notoriety ...
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| | This Is Skateboard Music CD (2005)
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One of the pleasures of being a pop culture obsessive or a fanatical record collector is stumbling across a subculture that you never realized even existed. Case in point, bubblegum songs about skateboarding written and recorded in the '70s then promptly forgotten. These bits of junk culture ephemera are unearthed on Diggler Records' This Is Skateboard Music, a collection of 13 songs nobody's heard before, plus a demo from T. Rex featuring his wife Gloria Jones. If RPM's ongoing Lip Smackin' 70s series, which is not musically far removed from this, specializes on glam, glitter, bubblegum, and proto-punk that's merely obscure, This Is Skateboard Music specializes in the unheard -- songs that never quite cut it as the exploitation they were intended to be. Skateboarding later became inextricably ...
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