Spoils Of War, The / I I
| Album: | I I | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Spoils Of War, The | Added: | Sep 2005 | |
| Label: | Normal Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2005-12-18 | Pull Date: | 2006-02-19 |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Jan 29 | Jan 22 | Jan 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 25 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 18, 2006: | The Sleaze Hour
Neckbrace |
4. | Feb 11, 2006: | The Poo Bucket
Big Sugar Plantations |
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| 2. | Feb 18, 2006: | There Aren't Enough Holes In One Human Body
Neckbrace |
5. | Jan 28, 2006: | Not The Time, Nor The Place
In Again Out Again |
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| 3. | Feb 16, 2006: | Dust On My Dreamboat
Neckbrace |
6. | Jan 21, 2006: | We, Who Once Were
Big Sugar Plantations |
Album Review
Josh
Reviewed 2005-12-15
Reviewed 2005-12-15
genauer@math.stanford.edu
Spoils Of War, The - II
Late sixties art rock. Male, female vox. Varied instruments. Poor recording quality. Long bluesy organ jam tracks, art folk arrangements, and songs that would fit in a musical. Long on complexity and experimentation; tragically, comically short on talent and execution. Contains nearly every psych rock figure of speech...performed horribly. Hindsight is wonderfully cruel.
***1. Organ. Rallying horns, female vox. scooby-doo camp. starts and stops to clunky effect.
*2.funky, fem vox, wah-wah, recalls Supersession.
**3.quiet strings. cheesy sung poetry
4. slow harpsichord, classical motif.
5. whimsical spoken/sung cheesy poetry
*6. female vox. awkward loping beat
7. sounds like a musical.
8. jazzy beat. bad clarinet. musical material.
9. subdued easy listening. a break-up song.
10. straight out of a musical
*11. acoustic. folk. fake Garfunkel.
*12. childlike. balalaika. very short.
13-16. campy organ and guitar jams. 15 is bluesy and in 3/4. 16 has jazz sax.
***17. long quiet funeral march intro. nice samples superimposed. morphs into psych rock.
Spoils Of War, The - II
Late sixties art rock. Male, female vox. Varied instruments. Poor recording quality. Long bluesy organ jam tracks, art folk arrangements, and songs that would fit in a musical. Long on complexity and experimentation; tragically, comically short on talent and execution. Contains nearly every psych rock figure of speech...performed horribly. Hindsight is wonderfully cruel.
***1. Organ. Rallying horns, female vox. scooby-doo camp. starts and stops to clunky effect.
*2.funky, fem vox, wah-wah, recalls Supersession.
**3.quiet strings. cheesy sung poetry
4. slow harpsichord, classical motif.
5. whimsical spoken/sung cheesy poetry
*6. female vox. awkward loping beat
7. sounds like a musical.
8. jazzy beat. bad clarinet. musical material.
9. subdued easy listening. a break-up song.
10. straight out of a musical
*11. acoustic. folk. fake Garfunkel.
*12. childlike. balalaika. very short.
13-16. campy organ and guitar jams. 15 is bluesy and in 3/4. 16 has jazz sax.
***17. long quiet funeral march intro. nice samples superimposed. morphs into psych rock.
Track Listing
| 1. | Big Sugar Plantations | 9. | Morning Be Merciful | |||
| 2. | Dear Belgium Boy | 10. | Completely | |||
| 3. | In Again Out Again | 11. | Violets | |||
| 4. | Frosted Windows | 12. | Bubab To Bed | |||
| 5. | Lightning Snakes | 13. | Big City Frank's Drum Solo | |||
| 6. | Poughkeepsie Blues | 14. | Vladivostok | |||
| 7. | Missed Opportunity | 15. | You'll Never Know | |||
| 8. | Bomb Song | 16. | Our Secret Place | |||
| 17. | Neckbrace | |||||