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| Artist : Lambchop |
| Album : Damaged (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Merge |
| Year : 2006 |
| Genre : Retro |
| Rip date : May-09-2006 |
| Store date : Aug-22-2006 |
| Size : 70,1 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - Paperback Bible 07:49 |
| 02 - Prepared 06:04 |
| 03 - The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P 03:36 |
| 04 - A Day Without Glasses 04:11 |
| 05 - Beers Before The Barbican 04:52 |
| 06 - I Would Have Waited Here All Day 04:02 |
| 07 - Crackers 04:11 |
| 08 - Fear 05:00 |
| 09 - Short 03:48 |
| 10 - The Decline Of Country And Westren 04:37 |
| Civilization |
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| 48:10 min |
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| Touted as "Nashville's most f*cked-up country band" by their label Merge |
| Records, Lambchop was arguably the most consistently brilliant and |
| unique American group to emerge during the 1990s. Their unclassifiable |
| hybrid of country, soul, jazz, and avant-garde noise seemed at one time |
| or another to drink from every conceivable tributary of contemporary |
| music, its baroque beauty all held together by the surreal lyrical wit |
| and droll vocal presence of frontman Kurt Wagner. Although Lambchop's |
| ever-rotating roster would later expand to over a dozen members, the |
| group formed in 1986 as a simple three-piece teaming Wagner, guitarist |
| Jim Watkins, and bassist Marc Trovillion, former high school classmates |
| already ten years removed from the educational system. Originally dubbed |
| Posterchild, the trio made its earliest recordings in Trovillion's |
| bedroom, self-releasing a series of cassettes with titles like I'm |
| F*cking Your Daughter. In time, the lineup began to grow and the band |
| regularly performed live in and around the Nashville area, often at the |
| area record shop, Lucy's (not coincidentally owned by Wagner's wife, |
| Mary). |
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| In 1992, Posterchild -- now consisting of Wagner, Trovillion, guitarist |
| Bill Killbrew, clarinetist Jonathan Marx, multi-instrumentalist Scott C. |
| Chase, drummer Steve Goodhue, and percussionist Allen Lowery -- released |
| An Open Fresca + A Moist Towlette, a split single with friends Crop |
| Circle Hoax. The 7" brought the group to the attention of entertainment |
| lawyer George Regis, who issued cease-and-desist orders on behalf of his |
| clients, the noise pop band Poster Children. After rejecting the names |
| REN, Pinnacles of Cream, and Turd Goes Back, the band settled on |
| Lambchop, added vocalist/saxophonist Deanna Varagona, steel guitarist |
| Paul Niehaus, and organist John Delworth, and signed to Merge to release |
| the 1993 single "Nine." Their debut LP, I Hope You're Sitting Down (aka |
| Jack's Tulips), followed a year later. In many ways, this album would be |
| the most conventional Lambchop record. Its Nashville origins and |
| torch-and-twang ambience would saddle the band with the increasingly |
| erroneous alt-country tag, although Wagner's Lou Reed-like vocals and |
| bizarre narrative conceits -- in particular the fan-favorite "Soaky in |
| the Pooper," a vivid recounting of a bad LSD trip -- immediately |
| signaled their obvious distance from the likes of Uncle Tupelo or the |
| Jayhawks. |
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| The lovely How I Quit Smoking appeared in 1996 (although on the |
| subsequent "Cigaretiquette" single, Wagner would proudly announce, "I'm |
| smoking again"). Recorded live the previous Independence Day, the Hank |
| EP followed later in 1996. Marking the debut of drummer Paul Burch, the |
| disc represented the apotheosis of Lambchop's Billy Sherrill-inspired |
| phase, its lush production evoking the Nashville sound so popular three |
| decades earlier, but now completely passΘ among Music City's chart |
| superstars. 1997's Thriller proved a major turning point; highlighted by |
| the Muscle Shoals soul of "Your Fucking Sunny Day" and including no |
| fewer than three songs penned by East River Pipe's F.M. Cornog, this |
| sprawling, difficult album introduced the uncompromising eclecticism |
| that would dominate Lambchop's work from here on out. The follow-up, |
| 1998's What Another Man Spills, upped the ante further; for remarkably |
| soulful covers of Curtis Mayfield's "Love Song (Give Me Your Love)" and |
| Frederick Knight's "I've Been Lonely for So Long," Wagner's baritone |
| drawl even gave way to a Prince-like falsetto. That same year, the group |
| also backed Vic Chesnutt on his album The Salesman and Bernadette. |
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| Lambchop's fifth full-length, Nixon, appeared in the spring of 2000. |
| Supposedly a concept album exploring the presidency of the infamous |
| Tricky Dick, Wagner even included a bibliography in the liner notes -- a |
| direct connection to the Watergate scandal remains unidentified. Though |
| still criminally unknown at home, Lambchop enjoyed a much more |
| substantial following overseas, and on May 13, 2000, they appeared at |
| the London Royal Festival Hall; the gig was recorded and made available |
| at U.K. appearances that fall as The Queens Royal Trimma limited-edition |
| EP. (A 2001 European tour yielded the Treasure Chest of the Enemy EP.) |
| The 2001 collection Tools in the Dryer assembled many of Lambchop's |
| scattered singles, compilation tracks, and remixes. After recording the |
| purposefully spare Is a Woman in 2002, Wagner and company moved on to |
| their most ambitious project yet -- two simultaniously released albums, |
| Aw C'Mon and No, You C'Mon, in which Lambchop was returned to full power |
| and joined by a lush string section. The next year the musically |
| experimental EP CoLAB came out, followed in 2006 by The Decline of |
| Country & Western Civilization, Pt. 2: The Woodwind Years, an eclectic |
| collection of tracks that had never appeared before on Lambchop records, |
| including one new song, "Gettysburg Address." |
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| In addition to Lambchop, several members of the group pursued side |
| projects. Burch led his own band, the WPA Ballclub, Varagona released a |
| fine 2000 solo record, Tangled Messages, and Mark Nevers led CYOD. |
| Wagner even teamed with Josh Rouse for the 1999 EP Chester. |
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