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With HAPPY HOUR, King Missile, the quirky lo-fi pop group centered around the rambling poetics and polemics of John S. Hall, moved up to the majors the only way they knew how. Producer Kramer adds another bump of the bizarre, and if there was ever any polished veneer on the album, it's thin as a stamp. If anything, the backgrounds wandered further off into the harsh, sparse, and experimental, and Hall's lyrics skewed more twisted and perverse. As tribal beats circle dervishly, "Martin Scorsese" imagines the iconic director accosted by a more violently intense version of himself, while the almost danceable surprise hit "Detachable Penis" told a meandering (but hilariously absurd) story of one man's worst Lower East Side morning after. The remainder of the album ranges from punk to jazz to sound art on an unsettling, at times uneven, but always fascinating record.

Producers: Kramer, Steve Watson, King Missile.

King Missile: Chris Xefos (vocals, keyboards, bass, percussion), John S. Hall (vocals); Roger Murdock (guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, emulator); Dave Rick (guitar).

Additional personnel: Mal Rick (clarinet); Kramer (mellotron, bass).

Rolling Stone (3/5/93, p.39) - 3 Stars - Good - "...at times equals the textural brilliance of Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/12/93, p.57) - "...The songs are accessible, but never obvious enough to kill a laugh..." - Rating: A
Q (5/93, p.96) - 3 Stars - Good - "...black, and predominantly self-deprecating, humor runs rife alongside tricky tempo changes and the plain goofy....Hall has obviously struck a nerve..."
(3/93, p.53) - "...It's rare that music makes you laugh out loud and want to play air guitar at the same time....explodes into a cornucopia of weird things....tremendously fun..."
NME (Magazine) (4/3/93, p.28) - 7 - Very Good - "...a set of songs that range from delirious cartoon novelty to full-slam guitar swoon..."
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Category Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Experimental Rock
Label Atlantic
Orig Year 1992
All Time Sales Rank   21463  
CD Universe Part number 1097282
Discs 1
Release Date Dec 15, 1992
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Engineer Steve Watson
Recording Time 60 minutes
Additional Info Parental Advisory
King Missile Happy Hour Songs


King Missile Happy Hour Album Track Listing



1.Intro
2.Sink
3.Martin Scorsese
4.Trapped?, (Why Are We)
5.It's Saturday
6.VVV (Vulvavoid)
7.Metanoia
8.Detachable Penis
9.Take Me Home
10.Ed
11.Anywhere
12.Evil Children, The
13.Glass
14.And
15.King Murdock
16.I'm Sorry
17.Heaven
18.Happy Hour
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Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars) 3 stars

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It's definitely worth your time and money to give this a listen. Detachable Penis is the big stand out track, but you shouldn't let yourself keep listening to it over and over when the other tracks are just as good.
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