ARTIST: Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
TITLE: OlΘ! Tarantula
LABEL: Yep Roc Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 40m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-10-03
RIP DATE: 2006-09-20
Track List
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1. Adventure Rocket Ship 2:50
2. Underground Sun 3:57
3. Museum Of Sex 4:00
4. Belltown Rumble 6:15
5. OlΘ! Tarantula 3:51
6. (A Man's Gotta Know His 5:34
Limitations) Briggs
7. Red Locust FRenzy 3:00
8. 'Cause It's Love (Saint 3:23
Parallelogram)
9. The Authority Box 4:13
10. N.Y. Doll 3:45
Release Notes:
http://www.robynhitchcock.com/
http://www.yeproc.com/
Robyn Hitchcock sought out some old friends to record his new album, Ole!
Tarantula, and he found the Venus 3: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill
Rieflin. By enlisting "3/4s of the Minus 5 and half of R.E.M," Hitchcock has
created what he calls, "the rockingest record I've made in years." While the
album roars with the garage-fueled energy of his Soft Boys days, Hitchcock's
lyricism continues to drive his songs. The New York Times says, "[His songs]
bridge the psychedelia of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett and the archetypal English
'nonsense' of Edward Lear," and Rolling Stone says, "Robyn Hitchcock's songs are
a lot like the genetic code: they're tough to crack, but the secret of life is
in there somewhere." In addition to the Venus 3 core group, Ole! Tarantula was
engineered by Seattle mainstay Kurt Bloch and features a cast of recurrent and
new characters in the Hitchcock story: Morris Windsor (Soft Boys/Egyptians),
Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Chris Ballew (Presidents of The United States of
America), Kimberly Rew (Soft Boys) and Ian McLagan (The Faces).