| Twink / Broken Record, The |
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| Album: | Broken Record, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Twink | Added: | Mar 2006 | |
| Label: | Seeland Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-03-19 | Pull Date: | 2006-05-21 |
| Week Ending: | May 21 | May 14 | May 7 | Apr 30 | Apr 23 | Apr 16 | Apr 9 | Apr 2 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 22, 2012: | Everyday Commotion Boys And Girls | 4. | Dec 09, 2010: | BBW = BB$ Real Indians | |
| 2. | Dec 02, 2011: | UpDownUnderStairs Boys And Girls | 5. | Nov 25, 2010: | Killer Yellow Pussy Cat | |
| 3. | Jan 07, 2011: | Everyday Commotion Choo Choo | 6. | May 14, 2010: | Buford J. Sharkley's Carmina Felidae Pussy Cat |
| Album Review |
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| Wicked Child Reviewed 2006-03-21 | ||
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Audio-collage of children's records. Most tracks sound like they belong in an old cartoon. A lot are a combination of 4+ sources on a theme -- "Three Blind Mice" or "Indians" This album is like being trapped in a mildly sinister animated circus. Walt Disney would love this. Very surreal. He's a big fan of using the old Disney-style pieces -- the minstrel chorus or woodland animal chorus. Uses lots of recognizable samples & songs. My favorites are the ones that actually sound like unique songs, and my absolute favorites are the one that combine modern turntablism with these anachronistic recordings. Those being: 3, 8, 14, 16. Good mostly-instrumentals: 19, 21. FCC Clean. 1. Horn fanfare then hip-hop scratching. Creepy high-pitched woodland animal narrating about "Mr. Magic." (1:32) 2. Female jazz vocalist, dark horns. Last minute is 50's Disney-ish animal chorus. Is it an FCC that this entire track is a thinly veiled sex metaphor? (2:02) **3. "Ladies and gentlemen ..." intro with merry-melodies sound that breaks into a pounding bassline. Trapped in the animated circus feel. (2:17) 4. It's a riddle over a sunny funk guitar. (1:04) 5. Mashup of songs about monkies, all very retro children's vinyl. "Pop goes the weasel" backing. Reminds me of Kid Koala's silly compositions (1:57). 6. Mashup of ABC-songs. Linked by various admonishing and boo's. Awkward. (2:31) 7. Old MacDonald songs. Has a pretty consistent beat. Fun. (1:51) *8. Playful song with a skiffling beat (2:04). 9. Big exposition song from an cartoon chain gang (2:17) 10. Male intro, sinister 11. Male-female call-and-response with tinny guitar & whistling, mixed with a video game bloop-beep. (1:27) 12. Shrill reading of Three Blind Mice, animal chorus reading trading with late-90s hip-Disney channel reading. Ends with a droning reading (1:50) 13. Spoken story over woodland-feel woodwind instrumentation. (2:39) **14. Fairly soulful train song for a while, then female singers, choo-choo noises. Listenable song. (3:29) 15. Songs about sleeping -- "Frere Jacques" into "Down will come baby" -- twinkly music box "down will come baby" music throughout. Spoken word bit. Ends with "life is but a dream." Intros to next -- "we're still at the opera" less (2:17) **16. The baritone "Toreador" aria from Carmen with lots of silliness -- scratching, pitch shifting, basslines (2:02) 17. Pastiche of snippets about (American) Indians, pretty funny exploitative intro, then "three little indians" then lots of "indian war music" (1:30) 18. Bizarre spoken word tale of 3 wishes with gentle guitar, xylophone and light strings. "Behold the power of cheese." (1:59) 19. Fun combination of some recognizable songs -- twinkle twinkle, sorcerer's apprentice. Basslines added. All instrumental. Sinister tour through childhood. (2:38) 20. Mostly spoken word bizarre take on Little Red Riding Hood. Lots of vinyl/retro static. (2:01) 21. "Just one more song" Music for a cartoon wherein a child's toy wakes up at night and stealthily creeping around the room. (2:55) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Mr. Magic | 11. | Whose Turn Is It? | |||
| 2. | Pussy Cat | 12. | Three Blind Mice | |||
| 3. | The Great Circus | 13. | Let Me See How You Do It | |||
| 4. | Riddle | 14. | Choo Choo | |||
| 5. | Monkeyshines | 15. | Life Is But A Dream | |||
| 6. | Alphabent | 16. | Hip Hopera | |||
| 7. | Animal Talk | 17. | Real Indians | |||
| 8. | Boys And Girls | 18. | Three Wishes | |||
| 9. | Hot Diggety | 19. | Yippee Skippee | |||
| 10. | Hammer | 20. | Grandmother Meets The Wolf | |||
| 21. | The Broken Record | |||||