Bowery Poetry Club Sampler Vol 1: This/That & The Other
Various Artists
Reviews
Red West
Reviewed 2010-03-16
Reviewed 2010-03-16
Live recordings from a coffeehouse, clean though unproduced. Mostly musical- even though “poetry” is in the title, only half are few poem-only readings. Promoting the Bowery Poetry Club’s series of soundboard recordings.
1. m spoken. self-complementing love poem
2.howling intro, coffeehouse acoustic guitar gospel/dirty blues
+3.glockenspiel & standup bass & fem harmonized vocals, plus guitar later. Gentle pop
4.FCC asshole, fuck. Childish humor.
+5.Alt-country/folk, uptempo, slows down & saddens at end
6.M spoken word & standup bass, beat-lite, NYC is dirty.
7.FCC: fucking. mid-slow hip-hop style beat, poem shouted
+8.FCC “shot the shit” @ 1:45 in/-4:15, “I know you’re fucking” @2:52/-2:25, “so she could fuck” @4:45/-:32. Spoken only. Druggie edge-of-society love story
9.3/4 time low acoustic guitar, full of emo- imaging Flight of Conchords sad song minus humor. Hard to hear over café chatter.
10.Depressed folk with a little lonesome whistling
+11.mid-tempo, 3/4 time baby-boomer rock w/elec guit, organ, drums- baritone sax near end
1. m spoken. self-complementing love poem
2.howling intro, coffeehouse acoustic guitar gospel/dirty blues
+3.glockenspiel & standup bass & fem harmonized vocals, plus guitar later. Gentle pop
4.FCC asshole, fuck. Childish humor.
+5.Alt-country/folk, uptempo, slows down & saddens at end
6.M spoken word & standup bass, beat-lite, NYC is dirty.
7.FCC: fucking. mid-slow hip-hop style beat, poem shouted
+8.FCC “shot the shit” @ 1:45 in/-4:15, “I know you’re fucking” @2:52/-2:25, “so she could fuck” @4:45/-:32. Spoken only. Druggie edge-of-society love story
9.3/4 time low acoustic guitar, full of emo- imaging Flight of Conchords sad song minus humor. Hard to hear over café chatter.
10.Depressed folk with a little lonesome whistling
+11.mid-tempo, 3/4 time baby-boomer rock w/elec guit, organ, drums- baritone sax near end
Recent airplay
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Too Far
Icecaps of White Noise — May 20, 2010
Death By Taxi
Memory Select — May 13, 2010
Maryreily
Ambient Annoyance — Mar 23, 2010
Charting
2010-03-21 — 2010-05-23
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 23 | 1 |
| May 16 | 1 |
| Mar 28 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | The Poet | ||
| 2. | Jesus, My Baby And Me | ||
| 3. | Rocky Mountains | ||
| 4. | Whale Song For My Bastard Song | ||
| 5. | Maryreily | ||
| 6. | Death By Taxi | ||
| 7. | Skewered | ||
| 8. | Crackhead Christie | ||
| 9. | Love Isn't Gone | ||
| 10. | Too Far | ||
| 11. | When The Night Time Comes |