|
|
 |
 Attempted Mustache album for sale Product Description
Loudon Wainwright, III - Attempted Mustache Album Track Listing
Attempted Mustache buy CD music Customer Reviews
| Average Rating: |  |
| great album
this is an amazing album full of songs that will make you tap your foot and shake your head. so good.
By rebekah.horowitz (philadelphia, pa)  |
| Great Studio Album
Enjoying this album tremendously - a superb studio album containing the original version of the ever-popular "Swimming Song"
By Barrykingston (Brighton, United Kingdom) |
|
| Mustache ride
It's only 1973 and Loud-o is already on his fourth and arguably most accomplished LP. Loudon's first two albums were largely solo, acoustic affairs, an event that fans still consider to be a blessing. After all, a singer-songwriter is at his most effective in an intimate setting, right? Maybe, maybe not. His next album was to be about 50-50, half-electric, half-acoustic. On "Attempted Mustache", Loud-o goes balls out with a band who sound somewhat reserved in the mix, but curiously pissed off when you really listen to how hard they're playing. Mr. Wainwright disagrees about the mix, thinking it doesn't do justice to his vocals. He has a point, as his words have always been at the forefront of what any student of language has to say. But despite a larger vocal presence, his rhyme still hits hard. This record is at times raw and reckless, and still somehow poignant and touching. His ironic mean streak comes though loud and clear on "Clockwork Chartreuse", a vicious rocker and sly nod to the similarly-titled Stanley Kubrick film, while his softer, more gentle persona still rings through with tongue-in-cheek, yet heartfelt songs to his recently born children. "Nocturnal Stumblebutt" may seem like a tribute to late-nighters everywhere but is, in fact, about a desperate search for cigarettes in the middle of the night whilst trying not to disturb a sleeping mate. "Down Drinking at the Bar" is an anthem for anyone who has ever cared about an individual more interested in consuming a glass of beer at the local watering hole than their suitor. Hardly the stuff of a typical early-70s singer-songwriter. Loud-o's original version of "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" makes its debut here, a tune covered effectively many years later by Johnny Cash, but Wainwright's rendition may have the edge after all. Do yourself or a friend a favor and add this record to your collection. Fans of intelligent, clever and even smirky folk-pop will treasure it.
By Jay (Dayton, OH) |
| Have you heard this album? |
 |
|
Attempted Mustache songs Product Details
|
Related Links
|
Share this Product