Artist: Barnes & Barnes
Date Released: 1980
Label: Rhino / Oglio (reissue)
Produced By: Barnes & Barnes
Tracklisting:
- Please Please Me
- Boogie Woogie Amputee
- Gumby Jaws Lament
- dE Pumped Out Blues
- Clip Clop (Ode To Equus)
- I Hope She Dies
- Party In My Pants
- Fish Heads
- Sewey Hole
- The Lumanian Love Song
- Cemetary Girls
- Something's In The Bag
- Linoleum
- When You Die
- The Vomit Song
- Boogie Woogie Amputee (early version)
- High School Gym
- Three Drunk Newts
- Voyeur
- Cruising Through Westwood
- Neanderthal Love
- Please Squeeze My Knees Louise
- I Love You Baby
(Tracks 15-23 on the CD reissue only.)
Review[]
The first Barnes & Barnes album is a very strong effort. It, along with Sicks is their most straight novelty/comedy release, but as with all the Barnes & Barnes albums, the experimentation and musicianship makes it a record you can return to over and over. As with a lot of comedy records, not every track works ("The Lumanian Love Song" never really clicked with me), but the bulk of them do, and those make up for any shortcomings. The CD version adds a lot of tracks (as do all of the Oglio re-issues), although the bonus tracks are a much more uneven bunch than on later releases. "The Vomit Song", "Cruising Through Westwood" and "I Love You Baby" are all superb, though "Please Squeeze My Knees Louise" and "Neanderthal Love" don't really work that well (despite some really cool sounds in the latter). The thing is, Barnes & Barnes are such skilled producers that, for the most part, even the misfires are still interesting to listen to, if for nothing else, to wonder how they got the unique sounds they did. The strange thing with this album and the follow-up is that the LP edition of Voobaha was stronger than the LP edition of Spazchow, but the CD issue of Spazchow is much stronger than the CD edition of Voobaha. Go figure. - Rev. Syung Myung Me
