Duck Rock

1. Obatalá

2. Buffalo Gals

3. Double Dutch

4. Merengue

5. Punk It Up

6. Legba

7. Jive My Baby

8. Song for Chango

9. Soweto

10. World's Famous

11. Duck for the Oyster

Duck Rock,Malcolm McLaren,Polygram Records,Alternative Pop/Rock,Club/Dance,Ethnic Fusion,Rock

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Average customer rating: poor man cry out to his god, he's dying and hungry Very Good! It gets old REAL quick And introducing, da explora mad caddies at his best

Duck & Cover The Mad Caddies Manufacturer: Fat Wreck Chords ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Third Wave Ska | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ska General | Ska | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Ska | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Just One More Quality Soft Core Rock the Plank The Holiday Has Been Cancelled Keasbey Nights ASIN: B000007T2T Release Date: 1998-08-11

Tracks:

1. Road Rash
2. The Gentleman
3. No Hope
4. One Shot
5. Macho Nachos
6. Monkeys
7. Econoline
8. The Joust
9. Betty
10. Apathetic
11. Medium Unwell
12. Popcorn

Customer Reviews:

poor man cry out to his god, he's dying and hungry.......2005-06-09

I love ska, it is my favorite kind of music. And the mad caddies are easily my second or third favorite ska band. they use more horns than most third wave ska bands do, almost enough to call them 2 tone. "one shot" "monkeys" and "popcorn" are definitely my favorite tracks on the album, "one shot" is an amazing song, it's about 3 times the length of an average ska song, and really slow, really chill, a perfect recipe for some serious skankin.

Very Good!.......2004-12-28

ive never really been a huge fan of ska but its always fun to listen to it every now and then. my frind told me that these guys were good so i went to best buy and bought this one because it was the only one in stock. i was surprised that the songs were so good. tottally worth it and the songs get you happy no matter what! my favorite track right now i Macho Nachos. buy it, its tottally worth it!

It gets old REAL quick.......2004-11-22

I liked this CD a lot at first, but as I listened to more and more music of the same genre, it really couldn't compare. I can never, tell what the lead singer is saying, but I don't mind that so much. It's just that the tunes aren't super catchy. What I do really like about this CD however is the creativity. The Mad Caddies can play just about ANY style of music. It's fun at first, it's just that the sound isn't as professional. The base line is also weak, which I think has a lot to do with my distaste for it. One thing I love about most ska bands is a strong base line, something this CD lacks. Other than that though, this CD has some interesting tunes. It's jsut not all it's cracked up to be.

And introducing, da explora.......2004-06-18

Okay dude you gotta hear this. I went over to Mic's house yesterday and I hear some music that was... I dunno crazy maybe in a way wack. Then he takes the cd and he puts in Mad Caddies and say to me "friend you will enjoy this." Then I did enjoy it after he pressed play. Anyways I'm talking in circles but this is what happened, it was amazing. I said "I don't really like Ska all that much but this is pretty good." He said "good." And I found it good.
-Dr. Charles "biggie" Stevensen

mad caddies at his best.......2004-01-09

Mad Caddies is probably my favorite ska band with Catch 22. And this record is THE BEST ska-punk album I ever heard. Every song here is good.

1. Road Rash - One of the best song, great silly horn part 10/10

2. The Gentleman - Their best punk song ever. They don't do like most ska bands doing pop-punk songs like Good Charlotte, this one is really fast and just enought heavy 10/10

3. No Hope - This is the song that is the most different from the others beacse it has not the MC sound. But it's so good. Fast ska at his best! 10/10

4. One Shot - Slow ska-reggae song. This is not my favorite style but this one is really good. And I really like the end when it becomes fast. 8/10

5. Macho Nachos - This one is punk with horns but still good. 8/10

6. Monkeys - A really really energic song that sound a little ska/jazz. When you listen to it, you just want to dance and jump on your walls. One of the beat song of the record. 10/10

7. Econoline - Another punk song with heavieness. It is one of my favorite. I really love the ska riff that comes from nowhere just before the chorus. 10/10

8. The Joust - A good ska song with a more punk-rock chorus. Really great. 9/10

9. Betty - Only ska, no trace of punk here. I don't really like the horn beat before the singer starts singing but the solo at the end is really entertaining. 8/10

10. aPathetic - Just punk, no horns or ska riffs. Not bad, not good, just ordinary. I don't really care about this song but it's still ok. 8/10

11. Medium Unwell - Another of my favorite song! It looks like The Joust but the chorus is kind of heavier and so catchy! I ove this song! 10/10

12. Popcorn - Another slow ska song. I don't really like this one, it's too much calm. It's probably teh song that I love teh least. 6/10

So, if you like ska or punk-rock, buy this record!

Average customer rating: Up and Coming

What I Have To Give, Let It Be Enough After the Sirens Manufacturer: Blue Duck Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000KG49GK Release Date: 2006-11-28

Tracks:

1. White Noise With Grace Notes
2. We Buy Jewelry When The Love Runs Out
3. The Song That Holds Us Still
4. Oh, For Eyes Of Glass
5. Prayers As Donations
6. Curare On Your Lips
7. Instead Of Beauty, Branding
8. Judah
9. Sieves And Seizures
10. The Lights At Nero's Party
11. A Waning

Product Description

After The Sirens, a five piece rock outfit from Bostons snowy North Shore, has been playing radio friendly indie rock since 2003. The success of 2005 s self released EP, We Have No White Flags, which landed the band their first national cable television performance (Steelroots, April 2, 2006) and critical acclaim from both regional and national media, has created a strong regional fan base that is very eager for the release of After The Sirens first full-length album. The new album, titled What I Have To Give, Let It Be Enough, will be released nationally on November 28 through Boston-based independent label, Blue Duck Records.

Customer Reviews:

Up and Coming.......2006-12-16

With stunning emotion and a roaring message against apathy, What I Have to Give, Let it Be Enough is easily one of the top debut albums of 2006. Stylistically After the Sirens sounds like what might happen if Dead Poetic, late-career Further Seems Forever, and Fall Out Boy had a car crash and forgot which band they were in.

Opening up is the short introduction-like "White Noise with Grace Notes," the album really gets started with the hammering drums of "We Buy Jewelry When the Love Runs Out" and the upbeat "Song That Holds Us Still." All this is well and good, but things really pick up with the rowdy opening of "Oh, For Eyes of Glass," a rollercoaster of a song that finds hardcore-ish double-bass kicking by drummer Jason Lefever. While vocalist Ryan Heidorn attacks the Church's apathy and inaction:

Well, I'll give my money
If they ask of me,
But I won't give my clean body.
The least of these is not the least of my worries

Picking up from there is the equally apathy attacking "Prayers as Donations," except this time its aimed at ignorance of international poverty:

I'm tired of seeing you boxed up
In cardboard and army fatigue
And I'll be walking around you so lightly,
Hoping that you won't disturb me from making my retreat.

The theme continues on the awe-inspiring "Curare on Your Lips," a song that starts with an almost rave-like electro beat that moves into a metallic drumming head banging session as Heidorn's vocals are expertly sampled throughout the track. The latter of half of the album dabbles in acoustic guitars with "Instead of Beauty, Branding," and the intense "Lights At Nero's Party," finally closing with the piano ballad, "A Waning."

After the Sirens brand of rock brims with variety (which is never a bad problem to have in today's convoluted music world), and each track brings something different to the table. The lyrics are beautifully written, the drumming (did I mention the drumming?!) powerful, and the guitars piercing. A band to watch, I'll be looking for the next album from these Massachusetts-bred rockers.

Average customer rating: Fun,avantegarde musique Pioneering synth work wrapped up in weird clothes Cute release from EuroRalph No Ducks were Stabbed in the Making of this Album Great, but only if you have drunk a bottle of Robitussin

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents Manufacturer: Euro Ralph ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Meet the Residents Commercial Album: 25th Anniversary Special Edition Eskimo Demons Dance Alone The Residents - Commercial DVD ASIN: B0000081OA Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. Constantinople
2. Sinister Exaggerator
3. Booker Tease
4. Blue Rosebuds
5. Laughing Song
6. Bach Is Dead
7. Elvis and His Boss

Tracks:

1. Lizard Lady
2. Semolina
3. Birthday Boy
4. Weight-Lifting Lulu
5. Krafty Cheese
6. Hello Skinny
7. Electrocutioner

Album Description

This audio-only twin 3'' CD release in a spectacular gatefold digipak cover is the ultimate deluxe edition of Duck Stab / Buster & Glen. Digitally remastered and denoised. It was with this album that the Residents perfected, for one brief moment, the dark, mysterious twisted pop song that raised their profile in the experimental music scene and college radio world. The songs contained here (a combination of two EPs of earlier that year, Duck Stab and Buster and Glen) are short, the lyrics obscure but precise, the analog synth sounds masterful. Like Brian Eno, the Residents' lyrics were more about the sound of the words than the meaning, and what is here on Duck Stab is in the tradition of such absurdists as Odgen Nash or Lewis Carroll. Euroralph/Germany.

Customer Reviews:

Fun,avantegarde musique.......2006-10-04

This is a great 2 disc cd that were originally two seperate albums to my understanding-"DUCKSTAB" and "BUSTER AND GLEN." The standouts on the first cd are CONSTANTINOPLE and BLUE ROSEBUDS. From the second cd as follows: Skinny, Semolina and Lizardlady. But I enjoy all of the tracks-their outlandish, fun and nowhere else will you find anything that sounds remotely like the Residents. Enjoy!

Pioneering synth work wrapped up in weird clothes.......2005-12-01

I first heard The Residents on the "Dr. Demento" radio show back many years ago. I still remember the cut - "The Laughing Song" from "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen". "Weird" simply does not cover where these deranged people work and play.
Most interesting about this disc (mine is a combination CD of the two EP's) is the groundbreaking work with strange new sounds and textures that predate Trent Reznor by more than twenty years and undoubtedly pointed Devo down their own twisted path. Some effects are simply undefinable as recognizable instruments. Others, like the tape lag that rumbles underneath "Sinister Exaggerator" make the track sound like it's coming apart as it progresses.
Patience, a sense of humor and musical adventure are a must for this most original band, but the wonderful noises that await the open mind are well worth the trip into weirdness, and the humor is a nice respite from the stress of the workday world.

Cute release from EuroRalph.......2001-11-30

Double 3" CD set. A beautiful release of this AMAZING recording!

No Ducks were Stabbed in the Making of this Album.......2000-12-30

Residents fans fall into dozens of camps when it comes to their personal favorite works by these curious pop parodists with the odd eyeball outfits. Some prefer Third Reich n Roll's distortion of 60s rock classics; others find the Commercial Album's blatant non-commercialism satisfying, while several Residents fans--all perhaps members of subspecies of the marmot groupings--actually prefer the Mole Show and can recite its story (a skill no doubt as valuable as the ability to speak Klingon or to memorize major motel chain toll free numbers).

To see the Residents at their most intriguing, though, one cannot do much better than the Duck Stab/Buster & Glen album. The highlight of the work, "Constantinople", is a droning bit of whimsy whose effect is sufficiently hypnotic as to make you peruse the record for evidence of subliminal backwards masking. As is typical of the work, the entire album is synthesizer-laden, filled with ominously non-sensical lyrics, and a range of parody and homage which includes styles as diverse as 50s Elvis-style rock, the invented musics of Harry Partch, jazz which alternates between pre-bop and Sun Ra and veers into Beefheart-esque territory.

If you have not "bought into" the Residents, this is an excellent start--it's sophisticated and yet very D.I.Y., musically complex and yet arguably as much a product of Shreveport as San Francisco. My only real critique of this album is that it's entirely eerie, but perhaps that's one of the many points.

Great, but only if you have drunk a bottle of Robitussin.......1999-10-22

This CD really speaks to me, but only after I drink Robitussin and sit down to listen to my favorite CDs.

Average customer rating: Duck Crock! Take a cupful of hip hop, a sprinkling of african vocals, a dash of latin rhythm and top with a hillbilly square dance. Tasty! Malcolm's first solo album fuses hip-hop with african rhythm Brilliant, but... We're on a world tour with Mr. Malcolm Mclaren...

Duck Rock ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Fans Buffalo Gals Back to Skool Waltz Darling World Famous Supreme Team Show Quiet Life ASIN: B000025JR0 Release Date: 2005-05-17

Tracks:

1. Obatala
2. Buffalo Gals
3. Double Dutch
4. Untitled
5. Merengue
6. Punk It Up
7. Legba
8. Jive My Baby
9. Song For Chango
10. Soweto
11. World's Famous
12. Duck For The Oyster

Customer Reviews:

Duck Crock!.......2007-04-19

"Duck for the oyster..duck, duck duck! Dig for the clam...Dig! Dig! Dig!" Words to live by... as Rock'n'Roll's greatest swindler does it to you again. A master con job that started the rap/hip hop thing, which in itself is a major con on a gullible record-buying public. Another one for the dummies...

Take a cupful of hip hop, a sprinkling of african vocals, a dash of latin rhythm and top with a hillbilly square dance. Tasty!.......2006-02-22

Although it has its weak spots, there's enough brilliant work here to highly recommend this to anyone looking for something unique and different in this world of factory-line musical product.

Combining african, latin, hillbilly and hip hop influences, this album is uncategorisable and unlike anything else I've ever heard.

You probably won't find this in any critic's "albums you must have" lists, because it doesn't neatly fit into anyone's "box".
It's too experimental for the pop fans, too pop for the radicals.
It shamelessly appropriates all kinds of musical heritage, without fitting into any of those neat little categories.
McLaren can't sing or play instruments, so gets no credibility from "real" musicians.

But somehow McLaren and producer Trevor Horn have created one of the best albums ever!
If you described this album "in theory", it would sound absurd, but what you hear through the speakers is genius.
McLaren's subsequent albums don't quite gel, but this one hits the mark.

Members of Art Of Noise were session musicians on "Duck Rock" and although it's not up to the same standard, I also suggest you buy Art Of Noise's (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise! (also produced by Trevor Horn). It only has 2 great tracks (Beat Box and Close To The Edit) but they are both ESSENTIAL in the history of electronic dance music.

Malcolm's first solo album fuses hip-hop with african rhythm.......2005-06-21

Duck Rock is an very intersting album. Malcolm was on a trip to New York. On his trip he heard an interesting sound. The music of break dancing and double dutch. Being a business man and a "haberdasher", he knew that this music was going to become the next hottest fad. So he got together with music producer Trevor Horn (of the Buggles) and worked on an album that'll mirror the music of hip-hop with traditional african music. This album was a labor of love for Malcolm. He put his heart and soul into this disc. It also caused a lot of grief because he "borrowed" heavily from traditonal South African music.

Recording the disc was an event in it's self. Bringing a cast
of characters into the studio (a whole cast of african singers and musicans, N.Y.C. hip-hop d.j.s', an elderly southern violin player to name a few). The album was a huge sucess
but it cost the studio plenty. To re-coup the losses they released a few discs that featured re-mixes and out takes from the production (Swamp Thing and Do You like Scratching). Buffalo Gals was a smash hit and hugley inspirational amongst many young hip-hop music performers in the United States and the U.K. Fifteen years later these artists paid tribute to McLaren by doing their own re-mixes and versions of Buffalo Gals and other songs from this disc. Malcolm would later re-visit the world of hip-hop ten years later. This time merging the music with Shakespere and Salsa beats.

Highly recommended.

Brilliant, but..........2004-01-31

Something (not sure what, maybe channel-surfing past MTV) recently inspired me to get out this CD and give it another spin, and I was, once again, totally captivated by Mr. Mclaren's and Mr. Horn's visionary masterpiece. The enthusiasm, energy, vibrancy, and respect for world music cultures radiate from the speakers of my home system like a sunny tropical breeze. It's pretty much impossible for this disc not to brighten your day; maybe the fact that it's -10 degrees F. here today has something to do with it!

There's not much I could add to this review that wasn't already mentioned in Shawn Wolfe's excellent essay on this webpage, except that I was disappointed that Island didn't reprint the fold-out liner notes from the original vinyl release, explaining the origins of the recorded material, as well as the complete lyrical content. I had bought this record in 1984 after hearing "Double Dutch" and "Buffalo Gals", and was not only entranced with the music on the entire disc, but thoroughly enlightened by the concept of combining so many diverse elements into such a captivating whole, few of which I would have been able to discern on my own without the help of the record's packaging. I'm just a mid-western farm kid; they didn't play this type of stuff on AM radio where I grew up in the 60's and early 70's.

So this record not only entertains, but educates. The fact that Island Records still has this CD in print should speak volumes about its worth, to this day. True, Mr. Mclaren did take samples of music from a variety of cultures and make them his own, but given the history of popular music it should hardly be a surprise that any one would want to do that. Perhaps there are web pages somewhere out in cyber-space that will help those who don't have access to this record's original liner notes to fill in the blanks. Definitely worth a search.

So for content, it gets five stars; for CD packaging, 3 stars. Total score, 4 stars. Go buy it anyway, along with your favorite tropical libation, and let it take you away. To Mr. Mclaren, Mr. Horn, and all your collaborators, a most profound Thank You!

We're on a world tour with Mr. Malcolm Mclaren..........2004-01-16

"We're on a world tour with Mr. Malcolm McLaren/we go each and every place including Spain"... so raps the Supreme Team on "World Famous." When I first heard these words at a house party at the University of South Carolina in 1983, I could only say WHOA! Then at the same party, the DJ played "Buffalo Gals" (also from this Album/CD), the kids went WILD and I dropped my jaws in disbelief! I HAD to run to the nearby record store. This was in fact one of tmy intros to African music, but it's very good as an example of excellent hip hop shortly before Run DMC saved the genre from dying out. This Album also helped in that first-aid effort. Still fun to listen to after all these years.

Average customer rating: Bluegrass? - Not even close Ah, the Dillards. Shallow Roots and A Duck That Delivers The Dillards Bring Country-Rock To The Mainstream LOVE THE DILLARDS

Tribute to the American Duck/Roots and Branches The Dillards Manufacturer: Bgo - Beat Goes on ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bluegrass | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Back Porch Bluegrass/ Live!!! Almost!!! Pickin' and Fiddlin'/Wheatstraw Suite/Copperfields The First Time Live A Night in the Ozarks: An Audiolithograph Wheatstraw Suite ASIN: B0000011OL Release Date: 1996-02-26

Tracks:

1. Redbone Hound (Dillard)
2. Forget Me Not (Martin)
3. One A.M. (Parish)
4. Last Morning (Silverstein)
5. Get out on the Road (Allison)
6. Big Bayou (Gilbeam)
7. I've Been Hurt (Itri)
8. Billy Jack (Dillard)
9. Sunny Day (Conrad/Whithem)
10. Man of Constant Sorrow (Dillard)
11. Music Is Music (Dillard/Jayne)
12. Dooley (Dillard/Jayne)
13. Love Has Gone Away (Dillard/Jayne)
14. You've Got to Be Strong (La Mirand)
15. Carry Me Off (Dillard/Jayne)
16. Smile for Me (Itri)
17. Hot Rod Banjo (Burnett/Clifford/Potash)
18. Daddy Was a Mover (Dillard/Jayne)
19. What's Time to a Hog (Jayne/Webb)
20. What's Time To A Hog

Customer Reviews:

Bluegrass? - Not even close.......2007-02-22

I don't know where those glowing reviews came from. This album is fine if you are into mediocre '70s rock. If you like bluegrass, you'll be sorely disappointed. The second half of the CD is marginally better than the first half, but it still has no redeeming qualities. Want a really good Dillards bluegrass album? Get Back Porch Bluegrass / Live Almost. You won't go wrong.

Ah, the Dillards........2005-10-06

Do you know, I've talked to people who actually believed the band who played The Darlin Boys on Andy Griffith were not a real band, but a bunch of actors faking it to someone's bluegrass soundtrack? How silly these people are. Of course the Darlins were the Dillards (excepting Denver Pyle), and of course they were a real honest to goodness (emphasis on goodness) bluegrass band. They went through several changes over the years, and still managed to produce some outstanding music. Some of the outstanding music they made is on this wonderful CD, Roots and Branches / Tribute to the American Duck. Songs such as Billy Jack, Last Morning, Get out on the road, Man of constant sorrow,
Dooley, Music is Music,are all wonderfully written, produced, and performed pieces of (God I hate this term) Country Rock.
Why the Dillards never became huge is beyond me. This is what I'm trying to say: The Dillards are wonderful, they made great albums, and they deserve to be recognized. They are decidedly more honest than the Eagles, as good as Poco, and a hell of a lot funnier than either. Buy this Cd. Buy this Cd. Buy this CD.
And while I'm on the subject, maybe someone will one day release a couple of other Dillard albums on Compact Disc, namely The Dillards VS. the LA Time Machine, and Decade Waltz. Oh, and did I mention you should buy this CD?

Shallow Roots and A Duck That Delivers.......2003-06-26

These interesting but uneven albums bear out the hard truth that The Dillards, by the early 1970s, were becoming a revolving door for talent that never stuck around long enough to really gel. Herb Pedersen, whose estimable gifts energized the group on the landmark albums "Wheatstraw Suite" and "Copperfields," had departed for greener pastures and wordsmith Mitch Jayne, busy tending to his budding career as an author, was a "Dillard emeritus." This left only Rodney Dillard and Dean Webb from the original line-up to carry on with an ever-changing roster of sometime/part-time Dillards. Having blazed the country-rock trail that everybody would follow, Rodney's muse was now leading him down another path, and it was Electric.

Their only album for Anthem Records, "Roots and Branches" signaled a bold declaration of independence from the old school of Elecktra Records and sported a handsome, sepia-toned textured cover (depicting the now five-man group as countrified hippies) with a gatefold design normally reserved for rock bands. As if to distance the record from the laid-back vibe that permeated "Wheatstraw" and "Copperfields," the album opens with an aggressive blast from newcomer Billy Ray Lathum's heavily electrified/fuzzed banjo on "Redbone Hound," one of two middling solo compositions by Rodney. The rest of the album is a headlong plunge into mainstream rock territory, with only token nods to the "roots and branches" of bluegrass via stingy dollops of banjo and mandolin. This is the favorite album of a lot of Dillards fans, but it's low on my list. Despite a few stand-out cuts, notably the lovely ballad "Forget Me Not" and the bouncy "Big Bayou," the record is almost downbeat. Although he sings them well, "angry young man" songs like "Last Morning" and "Get Out of the Road" just don't fit Rodney's mellow persona. The album's coda, a gorgeous a capella version of "Man of Constant Sorrow," recalls the thrilling tight-wire work of "Wheatstraw" and "Copperfields," but it's not enough to salvage the record from time's cut-out bin.

(Strange but true: As the opening act for Elton John - really! - on Captain Fantastic's first American tour in 1972, The Dillards got priceless stadium exposure that helped "Roots and Branches" earn career-high chart placements for the band on "Billboard" and "Cashbox.")

The silly title and cover of "Tribute to the American Duck," a one-shot for Poppy Records, amounted to a commercial death wish, but it was a vast improvement over "Roots." The "I'm words/he's music" partnership of Mitch Jayne and Rodney Dillard, the linchpin that always held the band together, is back in full force on a trio of great new songs ("Music Is Music," "Love Has Gone Away," "Daddy Was A Mover") that does their legacy proud. There's a souped-up remake, too, of the Dillard/Jayne chestnut "Dooley" with drums, electric bass and a nifty dobro solo. (Never happy with his submerged vocal on the original, Rodney made sure his voice was loud and up front on this version.) Best song honors is a toss-up among "Caney Creek," a bloody backwoods melodrama, and two acoustic masterpieces, the soaring "Carry Me Off" (co-written by Jayne and TWO Dillards, Rodney and sister Linda) and "Smile For Me," one of Rodney's best performances and easily his most tender one. "You've Got To Be Strong" bears mentioning, if only because it's the only Dillards song I know of whose trite chorus, so help me, sounds eerily like The Brady Bunch Kids on a talent show. Finally, there's the warped Jayne/Webb collaboration "What's Time To A Hog," in which Mitch wonders out loud, "What's a rubber to a duck?" among other loony metaphysical questions, to music that sounds like Spike Jones gone country. Mitch's lead singing debut, "Hog" proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Rodney's job was never in jeopardy. (Smile.)

The Dillards Bring Country-Rock To The Mainstream.......2002-04-13

"Roots and Branches" goes down as the Dillards only success (charting in the top 80) besides a 1971 single entitled "It's About Time" (which was backed with a very different version of "One A.M." on the original Anthem #101 release) which charted at #92. The band moved towards success and invented the sound which would dominate country bands for years to come. "Roots and Branches" works fairly well, although I like "Tribute to the American Duck" slightly more (which didn't chart). It's great to have these albums on CD, since they've long been forgotten by many at this point. These albums could be released today and the music buying audience would think they are the next big thing. This doesn't sound dated at all (can you imagine The Dillards with the same guy who produced Steppenwolf and Three Dog Night records?) and the production value is great. Another step in having the complete Dillards output on CD.

LOVE THE DILLARDS.......2002-03-05

LOVE THE DILLARDS - HAVE LOVED THEM FOR YEARS. USED TO HAVE MOST OF THEIR ALBUMS, AND DURING THE GREAT FLOOD OF 85 I LOST EVERYTHING. NEED TO REPLACE AND THIS IS ONE OF THEIR BEST ALBUMS!!! ARE YOU GUYS STILL OUT THERE?????

Average customer rating: A collaboration, not a split! Good Nursey collaboration! just beautiful... Nurse with Stereo, delicious pop Stapleton style ...

Crumb Duck Stereolab , and Nurse With Wound Manufacturer: United Dairies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Electronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000080WM Release Date: 1996-07-26

Tracks:

1. Steel Dream March of the Metal Man - Nurse with Wound
2. Dadda's Intoxication - Nurse with Wound
3. Exploding Head Movie - Nurse with Wound, Stereolab
4. Animal or Vegetable (A Wonderful Wooden Reason) - Nurse with Wound, Stereolab
5. New Dress [Remix] - Nurse with Wound

Customer Reviews:

A collaboration, not a split!.......2006-02-13

I don't know the exact processes by which these tracks came into being, but it's probably a good idea to clear up a misconception about 'Crumb Duck'. I've heard it said (though not here) that it's a split, with tracks 1, 3 and 5 being NWW material and tracks 3 & 4 Stereolab. The fact that Stereolab's 'Refried Ectoplasm' collection contains those two tracks may have reinforced this. In fact all the tracks are collaborations of one sort or another. I don't know if they're mutual remixes or what, but 'Exploding Head Movie' and 'Animal or Vegetable' or certainly reworkings of the Stereolab songs 'Jenny Ondioline' and 'Golden Ball' respectively.

Anyway it's a great Labby Wound or Nursey Lab record, however you look at it. It might seem an unlikely meeting, but Stereolab were in their most experimental (and arguably most interesting) phase; NWW fans who like 'Crumb Duck' but don't know Stereolab should check out 'Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements'. The two also got together on the single 'Simple Headphone Mind' which is almost as good.

Good Nursey collaboration!.......2005-06-26

Being a big NWW fan, I'll buy just about anything with the NWW name on it. I hadn't heard Stereolab before, so this CD was a good chance to make up for it. I'm not at all disappointed, as this is a great little EP.

The album has an interesting mix of styles that gels. "Steel dream March..." sets a 'Nursey' tone for the album - jittery, throbby beats and the usual accompaniment of melodic and white noise interjections. "The Dadda's Intoxication" then settles us into a standard NWW industrial ambience.

What sets this album apart from other NWW offerings is the relatively melodic middle tracks with Stereolab - "Exploding head movie" is almost a pyschedelic ballad. Not much development happens but it rocks! "Animal or vegetable", at first a laid-back Stereolab chant with a 'distorted-Hammond-organish' background, suddenly morphs into a beat-driven Krautrock-like romp, before morphing again into typical NWW chaos (including distorted mini-reprises of the "Exploding head movie" main theme).

"A new dress" is a quirky story of a very special dress, with a stark minimalist intro and accompaniment (including a harmonica - go NWW!) that will probably pall on repeated hearings, but does elicit a chuckle or two.

A good buy and a must for a self-respecting NWW collector! (well they all are, aren't they?!)

just beautiful..........2001-05-12

I am definitely a Nurse With Wound fan more than a Stereolab fan, not that i don't thoroughly enjoy Stereolab. This pairing of two great bands is amazing. This, to me, rivals even his collaborations with David Tibet (of Current 93 fame). The cd starts off with two amazing NWW tracks, that will just blow you away. But be ready for the beauty that is created in tracks 3 and 4. Stereolab's pop-ness combines so perfectly with Stapleton's noise. And the vocal...ahh the vocals...

When I first became aware of this cd I thought it was a bit of an odd pairing. The two groups, in my head, didn't seem to go together. But, once I heard this cd I have no idea why I originally thought that. It makes perfect sense! But then again, what involving Stapleton doesn't make sense?

My favorite NWW disc was always Chance Meeting...(the first NWW release). But this disc definitely rivals that right now for me. Definitely pick this up if you are either a Stereolab or a Nurse With Wound fan, or a fan of experimental electronic music, you will not be disappointed.

Nurse with Stereo, delicious pop Stapleton style ..........2000-07-13

Stereolab doing their thing and Steve Stapleton making it all Nurse With Wound. It is oh so very good. If you like Stereolab, this is them, if you know NWW, this is Stapleton. Beautiful mixing of both with no loss of either (Though it's all NWW to me).

Average customer rating: CONTORT YOURSELF!

White Cannibal James Chance & The Contortions Manufacturer: Roir ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004Y32N Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

1. I Got You, I Feel Good
2. That Old Black Magic
3. Sophisticated Cancer
4. King Heroin
5. White Cannibal
6. Money To Burn
7. Contort Yourself

Album Description

In 1981, ROIR then a cassette-only Company, released James Chance And The Contortions “Live In New York” as its first release. Many regard it as James' best work. Recorded in late 1980 and early '81, live at The 80's Club and Peppermint Lounge NYC, it is now 20 years later an essential document of New Wave history. We are now finally releasing it again, but this time digitally remastered, and renamed “White Cannibal”- fittingly so as James devours himself, his lyrics, his band and the audience! It sounds better today than ever. Liner Notes: Glenn O'Brien.

Customer Reviews:

CONTORT YOURSELF!.......2000-11-06

OK, this will be quick and painless. James Chance: master white jazzbo and punk rocker. Contortions: backing band good enough to support James. WHITE CANNIBAL: one of the last surviving documents of the Contortions. Basics: this is a necessity! the Contortions were a fixture in New York No Wave, and this album shows off their incredible live show! seven songs in 59 minutes! and it doesn't drag at all! the only reason it lacks a perfect 5 is the mediocre sound quality, but hell, it's still worth your dough! CONTORT YOURSELF! WOO!

Average customer rating: Derrivative Crappolla Disjointed, but with some lovely mournful folk-garage tunes

Federal Duck Federal Duck Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Orphan Egg Chesapeake Juke Box Band 1st Floor Deaf Priscilla Aurora ASIN: B000E41JU2 Release Date: 2006-01-09

Tracks:

1. Knowing That I Loved You So
2. Easy Virtue Blues
3. Tomorrow Waits For Today
4. Just Like The Snow
5. Bird
6. Hello
7. While YouRe Away
8. Peace In My Mind
9. Just A Band
10. Friday Morning
11. Dawn Comes Slow
12. AinT Gonna Be Nobody To Sing The Blues
13. Circus In The Sea

Album Details

An Underrated Gem Gets Its First Digital Release Courtesy of Radioactive Records. The Bizarrely-named Federal Duck Made Its Appearance on the Musicor Label in 1968. Formed by Banjo Exponent George Stavis, Federal Duck (Named after the Federal Duck Stamp Program which was Enacted by Conservationist Jay "ding" Darling and Us President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1934) Produced this Lone Musical Effort Which, Once You Get Past the Absurd Cover, is a Consistently Good Album that is Mildly Jazzy, Wtih Some Fine Bass and an Ever-present Darkish Vibe. There Are a Few Upbeat Mold-breaking Songs (One Even Sounds Like the Holy Modal Rounders), but Generally a Soft-psych Feel Pervades Throughout.

Customer Reviews:

Derrivative Crappolla.......2007-07-12

This is the usual mid to late 60s garage band noodling around on instruments they barely understand and trying to somehow pass it off as so "groovy" and "out there" that somehow that takes the place of "good." Oh, sure, sometimes these bands made some music that was flat out genius, but this one sure wasn't it.

The only thing interesting about this group is that Pulitzer Prize winning humor columnist/novelist Dave Barry played guitar in the band. He once wrote that the band was pretty lousy and that its breakup was due to a drunken night of throwing amps out of a dormitory window. No one had the cash to replace the equipment and the group ceased to be, according to Barry.

Disjointed, but with some lovely mournful folk-garage tunes.......2006-03-25

When I get my time machine working, maybe the eighteenth or nineteenth thing I'm gonna do is port back to the studio where the Federal Duck were making their (I assume-it's on Radioactive, so notes there's not) sole album, grab hold of the pseudonymous producer's lapels and hiss, "Listen, bub, you got an ace mournful New England garage pop songwriter in this George Stavis kid-so drop the rest of the repertoire and focus on the band genius and in 35 years fanzine writers will cream all over this disc instead of giving middling reviews that rely on that tired old time travel gimmick." The Stavis tunes really are strong enough to recommend the whole album, which when not working this haunting, wintery academic sound ala the Rising Storm plays around with neo-Vaudeville, heavy acid rock, old time banjos and a smattering of head humor, all played with sophistication and imaginatively arranged. Surprised I've never heard of these ducks before. (review originally appeared in Scram Magazine #22)

Average customer rating: A Defining album-- as weird as it gets, yet catchy tunes They try a pop album... and succeed!!! Beautifully derranged Just think of it as hyper-Beatlesque. The Residents breakthrough album

Duck Stab/Buster & Glen The Residents Manufacturer: East Side Digital ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Meet the Residents ASIN: B000000PM8 Release Date: 1997-09-23

Tracks:

1. Constantinople
2. Sinister Exaggerator
3. The Booker Tease
4. Blue Rosebuds
5. Laughing Song
6. Bach Is Dead
7. Elvis And His Boss
8. Lizard Lady
9. Semolina
10. Birthday Boy
11. Weight-Lifting Lulu
12. Krafty Cheese
13. Hello Skinny
14. The Electrocutioner

Customer Reviews:

A Defining album-- as weird as it gets, yet catchy tunes.......2007-05-20

While most Residents albums have interesting, quirky, humorous, and bizarre things to offer, this one is consistently all of those things from start to finish. Virtually every song on this collection is a catchy hit, yet they are all completely unique. Every song here is a favorite...

They try a pop album... and succeed!!!.......2003-06-19

The Residents are known for their arty experimentalism on avant-garde discs like Eskimo, Third Reich N' Roll, and Not Availible. However, Duck Stab/Buster And Glen revealed a new side to the ol' op-tops. Released in 1978, it was a combo of two EPs that showcased short, concise songs with understandible lyrics-then put through the Resdiential wringer. The result is what can be described as Top 40 for space aliens. Opener "Constantinople" is one of the three undisputed classics on this album, graced with constantly appearing on setlists and covers by Primus. The track is an eerie ditty bringing to mind creepy electronica. The second classic, "Sinister Exaggerator", is a slow and surreal nightmare with lyrics about god-knows-what. The other classic, "Hello Skinny", is a cool tune consisting of bass, clarinet, and echoed vocals.
However, many of the "non-classics" are just as good, some even better. "Blue Rosebuds" is a fantastic love song that shifts gears from surreal to psychotic; "The Booker Tease" is a dirty instrumental with cop-show guitar courtesy of Snakefinger; "The Laughing Song" is a eerie se shanty sung by a redneck; "Bach Is Dead" has a melody that sounds like someone scratching on a balloon and has a famous bridge of three quarter-notes; "Elvis And Is His Boss" is a hilarious splice of the Batman theme and heavy techno, and it even has a I-IV-V progression (!); "Lizard Lady" is an angry little piece of synth goodness; "Semolina" is a harmony-driven ballad; "Birthday Boy" is a demented child's song; "Weight-Lifting Lulu" sounds like a surf tune on tranquilizers; "Krafty Cheese" sounds like nothing lees than an invasion by robot gardeners (you'll see); and "The Electrocutioner" is a 2-parter: a manic blast of squeals, and a slow drift, both sung by some creepy lady.
All in all, Duck Stab/Buster And Glen may not be The Residents' best album, most it's their most accessible while being a fan favorite at the same time. Groovy!

Beautifully derranged.......2002-12-01

Have you ever been in that zone when you're so depressed that you actually feel knid of happy ot so full of joy that you feel like crying for an hour? The Residents live in this zone and thrive on chaos. Sounding like a combination of Mr. Bungle and Radiohead years a decade before either band was formed, the one-eyed wonders know your deepest hopes, your deepest fears, and will ruthlessly exploit them, making this a very important album to anyone who dares purchase or download it. 1,000 words cannot describe the wonder that is Duck Stab/Buster and Glenn. Just buy it today and you'll be happy. Trust me, I know these things.

Just think of it as hyper-Beatlesque........2002-10-03

The best way to explain the sound of the Residents is probably hyper-Beatlesque. Their music is what might have happened if the Beatles had all gone more in the musical direction of "Wild Honey Pie" or "What's the New Mary Jane"; in short the Residents picked up where the Beatles and almost all of their psychedelic contemporaries left off. This is beyond psychedelia. More of a piece with early Zappa or Beefheart, but different even from them. Just listen to the arrangements on "Weight-Lifting Lulu" (with the violin trills over the bridge, and the mutated "Peggy Sue" riff on which the song is built) and "Hey Skinny". "Constantinople", an old Residents favorite, opens the album. This is followed by what I think is one of their best songs ever, "The Sinister Exaggerator" (which Primus covered on an EP called MISCELLANEOUS DEBRIS). This song sets the tone for what is to follow: absurd, often disturbing little electronic ditties ranging in subject matter from the murder of a woman by her husband and father for her masculine physique ("Lulu") to a couple who live in terror of their monstrous son ("Birthday Boy"). "The Laughing Song" is a sea chanty on laughing gas; on "Semolina" the Residents take on the Beach Boys; "Lizard Lady" is a weird (and weirdly tragic) portrait of a homeless schizophrenic woman who lives in fear of lizards (I wonder if this character was based on an actual person one of them saw and decided to write a song about); "Blue Rosebuds" is at once beautiful, grotesque, and hilarious, a combination not many artists can sustain with much success; and the climaxes of each EP -- "Elvis and His Boss" on DUCK STAB, "The Electrocutioner" on BUSTER & GLEN -- end things with a bang. "The Electrocutioner" probably has one of the best female vocals in rock history. A woman named 'Ruby' is credited with these vocals, but I have become convinced it is Ethel Merman incognito. Beautiful, bizarre, funny, and catchy in its own strange way, DUCK STAB is likely to appeal even to non-fans, though I wouldn't count on it; I'm talking in relative terms here. DUCK STAB is the Residents' SGT. PEPPER: perhaps not their greatest or most ambitious project, but probably the most widely known and appreciated. And it's wonderfully produced.

The Residents breakthrough album.......2001-07-10

In the classified ads section of Rolling Stone when I was in high school this group called the Residents kept begging me to buy one of their albums. Of course, I always wanted to (being a kid, you always want to please people), but never did (being a kid, I had no money to indulge on the Residents).

Back in 1978, I lived, for a brief period of time, in Denver, Colorado. As part of my passage of time, I would hang around in Wax Trax and look for something new to listen to, mostly punk rock and new wave albums. On the shelfs were some Residents stuff, mainly "Meet the Residents, Fingerprince, and two EP's named "Duck Stab" and Buster and Glenn".

I avoided the EP's, not wanting to pay the money, but did pick up the other two. While I thought the Residents were, well, wierd, I didn't know then that I would become the fan I am today (at 45, being a Residents fan - and a grandfather - seems a bit out of synch with reality).

Soon, Duck Stab and Buster and Glen were put together as one, and I bought it.

I was astonished. These weren't the noodlings of some art group - this was pop music! Constantinople drove me nuts with its singer (whose singing to date I can compare to scraping my fingernails onto a chalk board) The Laughing Song cracked me up, because it is like listening to an inside joke (which it probably is) Elvis and His Boss predates cube-e, and is probably the best parody of Elvis ever done by the one eyed wonders. Weight-Lifting Lulu is dark, and beautiful Hello Skinny is my favorite song in the entire album, and The Electrocutioner hooked me to the Residents forever.

If you're looking for some songs written and performed by the Residents this is the album to find them in, every song is original, no two are the same, and they're all good (if strangely arranged and played). This is an essential Residents album.

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Duck Stab / Buster & Glen Residents Manufacturer: Euroralph (For409) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Eskimo Icky Flix Not Available Mark of the Mole/Intermission ASIN: B0002IQG5S Release Date: 2004-03-09

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9. House of Sleeping Beauties
10. Initiation

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