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:: Release Info:
::
:: Artist......> Yazbek
:: Title.......> Tape Recorder [collected Works]
:: Label.......> Self Released
:: Genre.......> Rock
:: Rip.Date....> Dec-15-2005
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
:: Play Time...> 40:55 min
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:: Track Listing:
::
:: 01. Strange Warm Day
:: 02. Monkey in the Middle
:: 03. Two Crows
:: 04. Muscleman
:: 05. The Wind
:: 06. Here Comes the Ducks
:: 07. Cowgirls Go to Santo Domingo
:: 08. Montgomery Alabama
:: 09. Schmuck in A Vacuum
:: 10. Never Know
:: 11. Surface Tension
:: 12. Breeze Off the River
:: 13. Mississippi Honeymoon
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: Once, a beleaguered, alternative rocker, Yazbek is now a
:: successful renaissance man. To celebrate his new found fame
:: as the toast of Broadway, Yazbek will release "Tape Recorder:
:: Collected Works", a fascinating new collection of his best
:: songs
::
:: Some artists toil in relative obscurity for years before
:: getting their
:: due. Sometimes it just takes some perseverance and a little
:: luck.
:: While David Yazbek was busy releasing three critically
:: acclaimed pop
:: albums in the late 90's, Broadway's higher ups were quietly
:: watching.
:: They knew of his whipsmart lyrics and bouncy piano driven
:: melodies and
:: tapped him to write the music for the smash Broadway hit,
:: "The Full
:: Monty". He was promptly nominated for a Tony. Driven from his
:: success, Yazbek took the bull by the horns and conceived the
:: music for
:: the more recent hit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Bingo,
:: nominated for
:: another Tony.
::
:: That's how it works in the music business. Once, a
:: beleaguered
:: alternative rocker, Yazbek is now a successful renaissance
:: man. To
:: celebrate his new found fame as the toast of Broadway, Yazbek
:: will
:: release "Tape Recorder: Collected Works", a fascinating new
:: collection
:: of his best songs, on August 2, 2005, on What Are Records.
::
:: Collected Works captures the spirit of David's work on the
:: aforementioned hit Broadway musicals, but framed within a
:: modern pop
:: context, think Stephin Merritt meets XTC. It's no coincidence
:: then,
:: that David collaborated on "Mississippi Honeymoon" with XTC's
:: Andy
:: Partridge, on one of Collected Works' best tracks. David's
:: self
:: deprecation and quick wit is charming and it's in every note,
:: every
:: song, making tracks like "Schmuck In a Vacuum" and "Cowgirls
:: Go To
:: Santo Domingo" simply irresistible. "Strange Warm Day" could
:: easilys
:: slide in on a playlist next to Joe Jackson or Ben Folds. It's
:: twisted
:: and intelligent, something pop seems to lack.
::
:: Not bad for a native New Yorker who started his career as a
:: writer for the Letterman show. That gig, inevitably led to a
:: period of
:: writing jingles for everything from beer to vaginal spray.
:: Really.
:: And then he wrote the theme to Where In The World Is Carmen
:: Sandiego?
:: Really! But lost in there, was his solo career. His little
:: masterpieces written to make the whole world sing. That's
:: what
:: Collected Works is about.
::
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::
:: Buy it if you like it!!
::
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