| 1. Ideal World |
| 2. Collapsing New People |
| 3. Sleep |
| 4. Stand Up |
| 5. Speak to Me |
| 6. One Man's Meat |
| 7. Ring |
| 8. Jump |
| 9. Ad Nauseam |
Gag,Fad Gadget,Elektra / Wea,Electronic,Popular Music,Post-Punk,Rock,Synth Pop
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The Carl Stalling Project, Volume 2: More Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons 1939-1957
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002MN3 Release Date: 1995-02-28 |
Tracks:
- Zoom And Bored
- Stage Fright
- The High And The Flighty
- Bad Swiss Band
- Marching Pink Elephants
- The Slap Hoppy Mouse
- Orchestra Gag
- Variation On Grandfather's Clock
- Variation On Chinatown My Chinatown
- Variation On Lucky Day
- Wind-Up Doll
- Guided Muscle
- Fall And Splat-SFX
- Ghost Wanted (1940)
- The Unexpected Pest
- Drunk La Cucaracha
- Flea-Ridden Sheep Dog
- Golf Cue
- Barbary Coast Bunny
- Satan's Waitin' (Excerpt)
- Rubber Dog
- Pappy's Puppy
- Variations On La Danza
- Variations On Johann Strauss
- Kangaroo-SFX
- Mouse-taken Identity
- Variations On Mexican Hat Dance
- Frazzled Coyote
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The second volume of the master Warner Bros. cartoon composer's work downplays the head-spinning montage of the first in favor of just-as-head-spinning complete scores. They aren't from the studio's best-known cartoons but from some of Stalling's most impressive tempo-warping, all-systems-go pieces, augmented by a few mini-pieces that illustrate the way he could transform barely familiar show tunes and classical themes into wild, rubbery jokes. Even without images, Stalling could make an orchestra suggest a "Flea-Ridden Sheep Dog" in 24 seconds flat and run enough changes on Stephen Foster's "Camptown Races" to match every mood in a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon. The head-snapping reversals of his scores anticipate much later avant-garde music. --Douglas WolkCustomer Reviews:
The Carl Stalling Project Vols 1 & 2.......2007-01-11
Better Stalling's CD.......2006-05-09
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The Carl Stalling Project Volume 2.......2005-09-12
Carl Stalling was one of the foremost composers of music for cartoons and wrote virtually all of the scores for Warner Brothers cartoons from 1936 to 1958. This is a compilation of some complete soundtracks and other snippets. In my opinion, this disk is not quite as well done as "The Carl Stalling Project Volume I."
A nice follow up.......2003-03-09
Now, every time I watch cartoons, I listen to the music!.......2001-08-07
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Gag
Fad Gadget Manufacturer: Mute ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000881G Release Date: 2005-12-27 |
Tracks:
- Ideal World
- Collapsing New People
- Sleep
- Stand Up
- Speak to Me
- One Man's Meat
- Ring
- Jump
- Ad Nauseam
Album Description
UK pressing features a total of 10 tracks. Further details TBA. Mute. 2005.Album Details
Fourth Fad Gadget LP, Originally Released in 1983. Features Ex-birthday Party Guitarist Rowland S. Howard.Customer Reviews:
The darker side of synth pop.......2001-04-19
And he does embrace everything on Gag with a wit and humor all his own. The opening track Ideal World is a great synth romp with its loud roar of synthesizers and politically charged vocals. "The sun never shines in an Ideal World" is just a taste of Tovey's cynical verbatim that intrudes in nearly all of Gag's tracks.
Highlights include Ideal World, Collapsing New People, Jump, and the infectious Ad Nauseum, the album's finale, delivering a series of sick, twisted synthesized arrangements (recognizeable in many modern industrial recordings) mixed with Tovey's sardonic commentary about society, aptly summed up by one of Tovey's best lines on the album: "I choke on the gag, but I don't get the joke."
This one's worth it, not only for Tovey's true talent, a mixture of social illness and true ingenuity, but also for the influence this album and Fad Gadget's other works have had on other artists.
A spectacular album.......2000-06-28
His strongest and best album........1999-01-19
Twisted melancholy at it's best.......1998-11-16
Some may know the song COLLAPSING NEW PEOPLE from dance clubs, but there are far more interesting songs, some being: IDEAL WORLD, JUMP and AD NAUSEAM.
IDEAL WORLD makes fun of the idea of living in a world where the sun never shines, and "no stress, no death, and when you fall, you wake and feel no pain." INDEED an ideal world! :) The opening guitars are WHINY, and the drums and a nice militaristic beat to it. FAD GADGET's vocals take over with a vengance.
Cans rattling and drums are the opening for JUMP, a rather humor look at why people condem themselves to a life of misery, all for the sake of "a better way of life." His vocal timing, for the chorus, is VERY interesting. There are zero guitars as far as I could hear, but plenty of GRATEY keyboards to make up for it.
AD NAUSEAM is latin for "to sickness and beyond." It reminds me of a very dark classical piece, with a double bass rumbling out the beginning of a tragic play, where the main person keeps pointing out his flaws, that will leave a bad taste in your mouth. And it sounds as if the KNIFE STABBING sound from the movie PSYCHO is part of the backround sound texture, which only adds tot eh discomfort, and uneasy feel the song portrays.
Each song is another mini-story. And each story from a different perspective, with varrying degrees of emotional intensity. From the rather bizarrely upbeat of ONE MAN'S MEAT, to the dour AD NAUSEAM, it's nearly a test of character listening to it more than 5 times in a row. :)
It's amazing how music from 1979 to 1984 was re-released in 1991, and AGAIN in 1994... :)
1979 - FIRESIDE FAVOURITES 1981 - INCONTINENT 1983 - UNDER THE FLAG 1984 - GAG
Now FAD GADGET goes by his given name, FRANK TOVEY, and is, THANKFULLY, still making music to this day. :)
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In Goddess We Trust
Judy Tenuta Manufacturer: Gag Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000HF71 Release Date: 1999-01-26 |
Tracks:
- She's The Goddess/Butt Darts
- Reba & West Virginia
- Dating Machine/John-John
- Bloody Glove/Robert Shapiro
- Kato & The Moonie Song
- It's Not Safe, Susan Smith
- Nancy Kerrigan
- My Mom & St. Obnoxious
- Wedding Polka (On Fire)
- Do Not Possess The Chocolate
- Miss Feminine Protection 1995
- Stud Puppet Healing And Song
- Solve World Hunger
- Susan Powter
- Tupperware Gore & Dan Quayle
- Barbra/The Jetsons/Finale
- On Fire (Reprised)
- Bonus Track- Mountain Girl
Customer Reviews:
Not as good as on HBO........2002-09-16
THIS CD IS HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!.......1999-02-11
BUY IT!!!
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Power of Judyism
Judy Tenuta Manufacturer: Gag Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000HF72 Release Date: 1999-01-26 |
Tracks:
- Introduction
- Incarnations
- Nuns & Father Shanky
- Song-Love Slave
- Astral Projecting
- Letters To The Goddes
- Dogma On Comedy
- Song-Why Are You Living?
- Purgatory Dating
- Pig Club
- I'm O.K. You're A Fat Cow 'Weight Loss Plan.'
- More Letters To The Goddess
- Diets
- Goddessize
- Letters To A 56 yr. Old
- Where Not To Mate
- Pet Peeves
- Sports
- How To Harness Cosmic Power Throught Your Crotch
- Predictions And Initiation
- Song-Party In Your Pants
Customer Reviews:
Feel the Power!.......2003-08-15
This book achieves the amazing feat of being at the same time both very very gutsy and very very silly. Thank you, Judy! May we have another?
A First. A comedy album with no laughs........2002-03-08
For Flaming Fans and Devoted Lust-Logs ONLY.......2000-07-24
Let's go back in time....OOHHHH, KYOKOOOO....remember when you were the only Virgin Flower on the block? (It could happen!) You converted us to Judyism by doling out your barbs and slams with religious fervor, and we ached to recieve the gift of your pre-chewed gum. Now your audience can shout out your pungent punchlines before you get a chance, as if they already possess you. (NO!) We may be little more than Hillfiger heifers and Gap-going gonads for wanting something new and trendy, but we love you as much as our Ernest Borgnine beauty treatments.
We love you, Defiant Diva, and your musical interludes here are head and shoulders above the nose of that sycophant Streisand. But you run the risk of self-parody, sweet Geisha Girl, and even the most burly butt-pirate has heard this schtick more often than he's been stuck. To spread the word of Judyism we must bring you forward in time...the Darva Congers and larva-eaters of Survivor demand to be skewered on the spit of your sarcasm. There are boy bands to be butchered and Kathy Lee is still at large...we need the Goddess' guidance to put these pigs in their place.
We await your response to these and other triumphs of tastelessness, oh Empress of Elvis Impersonators.
-Mic
moderately amusing.......1999-10-22
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Gag Me with a Spoon
Various Artists Manufacturer: Don't Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003JF0 Release Date: 1995-07-19 |
Tracks:
- 867-5309 (Jenny) - Marque Bovre & The Evil Twins
- Whip It - Willy Porter
- Church Of The Poison Mind - The Yell Leaders
- Once In A Lifetime - Citizen King
- How Soon Is Now? - Pet Engine
- Talk Of The Town - Alex Ballard & Sugarfoot
- I Know What Boys Like - Soda
- I Held Her In My Arms - Blue In The Face
- The Ghost In You - Blow Pops
- Shock The Monkey - Wooldridge Brothers
- Dance Me To The End Of Love - Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans
- Mexican Radio - Loyal Order Of Water Buffalo
- Everybody Wants You - The Coolhand Band
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Falling Wallendas
- She Blinded Me With Science - Mrs. Fun
Customer Reviews:
There's some gold amid the muck.......2001-06-25
Most tunes are borderline. Marques Bovre & the Evil Twins treat "867-5309 (Jenny)" with the irreverence it deserves, although their version sounds flat. The Yell Leaders get things moving with a relatively faithful rendition of "Church of the Poison Mind." Citizen King scratches and funks through "Once in a Lifetime," and Mrs. Fun echoes, not apes, Thomas Dolby on "She Blinded Me With Science."
A few songs stand out. Pet Engine's "How Soon is Now?" is one of my favorites -- a risky, soaring tune that goes from guitar pop to grunge to country twang within 4 minutes. The Blow Pops' version of "The Ghost in You" is almost as dreamy, eerie and sweet as the Furs. SODA's "I Know What Boys Like" has the same sly wink as the original, and it's even funnier with a male voice. Finally, I can't even listen to the Police version of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" after hearing the Falling Wallendas version -- the poppy reggae is replaced with gorgeous moody guitar work and harmony that highlights the ache behind the words of the song. For once, a tribute improves the original.
Then there are the failures, like "Shock the Monkey" on acoustic guitar. Willy Porter's terribly misguided "Whip It" sounds like it should be blaring out of a Chicago blues bar. "Talk of the Town" and "Everybody Wants You" are barely distinguishable from the originals, so why are they here?
The great covers are great, but the weak covers do muck up the rest of the CD. A suggested buy only for curiousity seekers, rabid fans of some of the original artists, and people with a high tolerance for novelty.
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Attention Butt Pirates and Lesbetarians: Live at the C.S.W. Gay Pride Festival
Judy Tenuta Manufacturer: Gag Media ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000HF6Z Release Date: 1999-01-26 |
Tracks:
- Attention: Butt Pirates & Lesbetarians
- Attention: Butt Pirates & Lesbetarians
Customer Reviews:
I'm sassy..............2000-06-16
Some of the references are dated and, perhaps, unfortunately (such as her jokes about Siskel and Ebert). But that is due to unfortunate subsequent events. And we can all still chuckle fondly about two of our favored movie icons.
If you haven't heard Judy Tenuta, her voice is a cross between a Brooklyn Italian housewife and a boozed growl from Lauren Bacall, with a few snorts thrown in for good measure. Fortunately she never really sings, but attempts something the Germans call Sprechtstimme (or Sprechgesang). And the accordian -- her trademark -- is almost totally out of audio range.
So, suspend reality and prudery for an hour, and let the Goddess take you where you have never been (let alone never want to have been) before. Well worth the laughs and the snorts... Just leave your accordian in its case...
Hilarious.......1999-06-18
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Gag Me with a Tune
Danny Tenaglia Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002P3R Release Date: 1996-10-08 |
Tracks:
- The Way We Used To (Acapella)
- Happy (Don't Stop The Love Mix)
- Hipnotizing
- Check This Out
- I Found It (DMC Mix)
- We Kan Nev er Be Satisfied (MDZ Be Phreakin Mix)
- Gonna Luv
- The Way We Used To (Hard Mix)
- We Kan Never Be Satisfied (Ad Lib Mix)
- Dedication (Shorty's Mix)
- Werking (Tranced Euro Effect)
- Banji Dance (Original Mix)
- Where We At (Together)
- The Way We Used To (Acapella)
- It Doesn't Matter (The Rude String Mix)
- The Way We Used To (Acapella)
Customer Reviews:
Nice House Mix.......2001-03-27
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Liszt/Strauss:Lieder
Fassbaender/Gag Manufacturer: Universal Music & VI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E3FG Release Date: 2000-01-01 |
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Running Gag
Extreme Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000056KW8 Release Date: 1996-11-21 |
Tracks:
- Unconditionally (Chr Edit)
- Am I Ever Gonna Change (Live)
- Tell Me Something I Don't Know (Live)
- Naked (Live)
- When Will It Rain
Album Description
1995 Japanese release on A&M, a tour souvenir/ mini-albumfeaturing five tracks.Standard jewel case.
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Singing Gag
Manufacturer: Plenty Face ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CADLKO Release Date: 2005-07-05 |
Meditation Music:
- Grand Piano: Narada Anniversary Collection
- Grand Union
- Harmonic Ocean
- Healing Waters
- Heart is the Only Nation
- Heaven and Earth
- I Love You Perfect: Original Soundtrack Recording [Soundtrack]
- Improvisations
- In the Enchanted Garden
- Incontinent
Meditation Music
Brahms, Mozart, Weber and others
Bach - Early Organ Works, Vol. 2
Music: The End Is Not in Sight
Can't Stop Dancing V.4 [Import]
20 Super Sucessos V.3 [Import]
All the Best from the Caribbean, Vol. 2