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Having fully settled into their retirement from touring, this was XTC's second album since leaving the stage for good. With none of the songs having developed in live performance, their studio inclinations were given full range to go where they might. MUMMER opens with the African rhythms of "Beating Of Hearts," with things then immediately turning intimate and pastoral as Colin Moulding's "Wonderland" drifts in like a falling leaf. Andy Partridge delivered a few novel takes on familiar themes of love and longing with "Love On a Farmboy's Wages" and "Great Fire." The album also closes with his "Funk Pop A Roll," which ironically starts a dance party right when it's time to leave.
Mummer, the first album to follow Andy Partridge's mental breakdown, which led to XTC's retirement from touring, is very much the work of an eccentric in isolation. The album is a collection that builds on the groundwork of English Settlement with gentle, acoustic songs that evoke pastoral images and peaceful times. There are moments of real inspiration, resulting in some of the band's finest songs to date -- "Love on a Farmboy's Wages," "Great Fire," and "Lady Bird" -- and the sound sets a pleasingly consistent mood, although the sameness tends to work against the lesser material. Only the out-of-place afterthought of "Funk Pop a Roll," a tirade against the music industry, breaks things up, recapturing the abrasive Partridge of past. ~ Chris Woodstra
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Remastered reissue of 1983 album. Virgin Records.2001.Q (7/01, p.139) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The first work from the studio-bound XTC, expanding the pastoral themes....XTC were a motherlode of rampant imagination..."
CMJ (1/5/04, p.14) - Ranked #14 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1984" Purchase Mummer CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | CD-R - 700MB, 10 Pack (2009)
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XTC's fourth album showed the full flower of their two-guitar lineup, begun on the previous DRUMS AND WIRES. Perhaps their most powerfully rocking work, the songs were no less compelling live. Unfortunately, as touring began in support of the release, leader Andy Partridge's long-standing stage fright blossomed into immobilizing panic, forcing the band to permanently ...
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The American medicine show came into its own shortly after the Civil War with the rise of so-called patent medicines and the almost complete lack of regulations concerning the ingredients that went into them, and any number of noxious tonics, elixirs, and nostrums with trumpeted healing powers were hawked by silver-tongued pitch doctors to the audiences who flocked to see the various acrobats, dancers, fire-eaters, snake handlers, comedians and musicians who entertained at these free extravaganzas. As a cost efficient way of merging entertainment with merchandising (and where manufacturing meant mixing ingredients in a bathtub), these medicine shows successfully traveled the so-called "kerosene circuit" of rural and small town America until the dawn of the 20th century, when the rise of radio and movies, and the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, combined to render them obsolete. The medicine show blueprint of offering free entertainment to attract audiences and then using intermissions to push products on them has hardly gone away, however, and is still the driving force behind radio and television in the 21st century. The musicians featured in these colorful traveling medicine shows were professionals, at least professional enough to leave their home communities and take to the road, and luckily several of these musicians were still active in the 1920s and early '30s when the fledgling recording industry was just getting off the ground, and numerous commercial 78s by former medicine show entertainers were issued in the prewar era. Two discs' worth of these 78s have been assembled here by Old Hat Records, an ind
(2-CD set) Here is a collection of music of the Medicine Shows from 1926-1937. Before motion pictures...before radio...before television...the traveling medicine shows brought entertainment to America. Flamboyant pitch doctors roamed the land, hawking th
Recording information: Atlanta, GA (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Charlotte, NC (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Chicago, IL (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Dallas, TX (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Johnson, City, TN (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Memphis, TN (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); New York, NY (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); Richmond, IN (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); San Antonio, TX (11/04/1926-08/05/1937); St. Louis, MO (11/04/1926-08/05/1937).
Authors: Richard K. Spottswood; Chris Frazer Smith; Bengt Olsson; Kinney Rorrer; Nick Tosches; Charles ...
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The Scared Stiffs are New York's newest drop dead punk & roll band! Fresh out of an upstate boneyard, the Stiffs have been crypt-kickin' ass everywhere they've played, leaving trails of sweat-drenched grinning victims in their wake. No one's been spared!Pulling from the New York Dolls to Johnny Cash, The Scared Stiffs lash out with their own brand of flaming garage punk, belting out future classics about ghouls, girls, creatures and cars. Throw in B-movies, booze, tattoos, Betty Page and gutter guitars and you begin to get the picture.So if you got a taste for ghouls, gore and guitars... The Scared Stiffs want you on the menu! Here's what the critics say..."When Monsters Fall In Love is the equivalent of riding in a hot rod hearse filled with dead bodies! Classic rock riffs coupled with fun lyrics drill the song into your head... Â The guitar riffs of Haunted give the song the feel of the late '60's Rockabilly... Â The lyrics are damned fun too... Â 'Autopsy Turvy' is my new favorite make-out disc!.. This disc is guaranteed to please all ghouls, monsters, morticians and necrophiliacs!" - Black Angel Reviews"Spooky stuff... Â Monster moshin' ghoul rock for the boneyard or your favorite late night haunt. Check 'em out! "Â - Starr Trucker/ New York Waste"An effort that takes influence from Alice Cooper, The Ramones, and various other 70's punk bands while blending in all sorts of morbid lyrics.. Â The best moments here are the Ramones sounding track My Mother The Carnivore and Satellite which has an undeniable groove to it.. musicians who capture their sub-genre well!"Â - The Video Graveyard "Laid out some place between the legendary ...
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