a r t i s t : The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
t i t l e : Paralyzed! His Vintage Recordings 1968-1981
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : EM (EM1061CD)
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : 11/2006
t r a c k s : 25
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 63,8 MB
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*Ripper's note: I only scanned the discography page of the
booklet. There's a lot more stuff inside - great pictures,
lyrics etc., plus lots of liner notes, all in Japanese
unfortunately.
This set is worth it for the first track alone. Enjoy.
Killer presentation of the earliest recordings of this Texas
hero, including all 4 of this singles for the Mercury label,
cut in the late '60s. Plus unreleased tracks and the 1984
album, Rock-it To Stardum. Typically great EM Recors booklet
with old photos and lyrics, etc. "It might be the weirdest
piece of music ever committed to tape in Fort Worth. On
'Paralyzed', an explosion of madness recorded at Sound City
Studios on Camp Bowie Boulevard in 1968, the Legendary
Stardust Cowboy thrashes away at a single guitar chord over a
rudimentary two-beat, tunelessly bellowing indecipherable
lyrics and whooping like an Indian in an old western movie. In
the middle of the song, there's a drum solo that sounds like
someone dropping trash cans down a flight of stairs, followed
by a blatting bugle. The pandemonium starts up again only to
subside, like the end of an epileptic seizure. Hearing the
song for the first time is disorienting, to say the least. Its
impact is both hilarious and primal. Norman Carl Odam is an
unlikely musical hero. That's the name the Lege's parents gave
him when he was born, in Lubbock in 1947. But since high
school, he's called himself the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. He
has an extremely limited vocal range, has trouble singing in
time, and can barely play his instruments. Yet, some
surprising people like him. Chameleon-like British rocker
David Bowie based his Ziggy Stardust character on the Lege
after receiving a copy of 'Paralyzed' from Mercury Records
upon signing with the label in 1968. Bowie even covered Odam's
song 'I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship' on his 2002 Heathen
CD. Joe Ely, who grew up with Odam in Lubbock, has said that
his old friend 'might be the greatest jazz musician ever to
come out of West Texas.' Ely's claim sounds preposterous, but
it's still indicative of a degree of bewildered admiration. As
for Norman Odam, these days he works as a night watchman in a
Santa Clara bank. His current band -- bassist Klaus Fluoride
(formerly of San Francisco punk originators the Dead
Kennedys), guitarist Jay Rosen, and Meyers -- works regularly
around the Bay Area and recently played a show in France with
punk-era figures Alan Vega, Lydia Lunch, and Sigue Sigue
Sputnik. Odam's been featured in Songs in the Key of Z, Irwin
Chusid's book on 'outsider' music, and Lubbock Lights, a
documentary about his homeboys the Flatlanders that screened
at this year's South by Southwest.
http://www.forcedexposure.com
http://www.emrecords.net/records/00076.html
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01-Paralyzed [02:19]
02-Who's Knocking On My Door? [03:17]
03-I Took A Trip (On A Gemini Spaceship) [01:56]
04-Down In The Wrecking Yard [02:38]
05-Kiss And Run [01:58]
06-Everything's Getting Bigger But Our Love [01:53]
07-Hey Baby Of Mine [03:43]
08-You Are My Gloria [02:53]
09-Donna Plus Apollo [05:59]
10-Paralyzed-80's [02:25]
11-I Walk A Hot Wind [03:40]
12-Radar [02:13]
13-Fly Me To The Moon [02:27]
14-The Ledge Talks [00:51]
15-I Took A Trip (On A Space Shuttle) [02:22]
16-Cast-Iron Apron [01:22]
17-Cactus [01:56]
18-Shadow Of A Tiger [02:51]
19-Who's Knocking On My Door? [02:55]
20-The Ledge Hollerin' [01:11]
21-Brass Rainbow [02:14]
22-The Ledge Hollerin' More [00:16]
23-Mr. Songwriter [01:24]
24-Dynamite [02:27]
25-Crack Of Dawn [01:11]
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58:21 min
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