Artist : Leona Anderson
Title : Music To Suffer By
Genre : Chanson
Year : 2010
Date : 06/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 12
Label : Trunk Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 28:22 min
Size : 22,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.i love paris 02:01
02.chloe 03:06
03.hep cat 02:25
04.habanera from carmen 02:13
05.il bacio 01:57
06.tell me a tale 02:27
07.indian love call 03:11
08.limburger lover 02:50
09.giannina mia 02:25
10.rats in my room 02:12
11.yo ho the crow 02:05
12.italian street song 01:30
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28:22 min
In the canon of terrible and terrifying
singers, Leona Anderson reigns supreme.
Sandwiched perfectly between Mrs Miller
and Florence Foster Jenkins, this 1958
recording badly needs to be heard by
anyone with a sense of humour, and also
by anyone with no humour at all. From
the classic Rats In My Room to the
swinging Limburger Lover (possibly the
greatest song about cheese ever sung),
Miss Anderson is faultless in her
extraordinary timing and musical
execution. Every song here is magic,
made even more so by the most perfect
orchestra, who add humour and a true
sense of importance to what has to be
the best worst album of all time. And
here it is, for the first time in all
its remastered glory, so it now sounds
even more glorious.
Recently I tried to remember where I
first got hold of a copy of Music To
Suffer By. I think it might have been
from Intoxica in the mid 1990s. The
photos on the reverse of the sleeve
showed her in full musical flow,
yodelling and beautifully bonneted. I
loved the pictures so much I wanted to
meet her. Then I heard the record and
immediately wanted to hear her live.
This was not to be as Leona passed away
aged 89 in 1973.
With the album always within easy reach,
I would often torture my wife with it,
and occasionally plant the albumÆs
devilish musical hooks into unexpecting
visitorÆs minds. The only other time I
heard the recording was on the Danny
Baker radio shows, Leona being the
perfect musical foil to DannyÆs wildly
creative banter.
Since then I have notice the album has
appeared on blogs, as rough downloads
and as straight forward downloads too.
But I also notice no one had really
bothered to remaster the album at all.
So we did. And here it is in all its
insane glory, sounding worse than ever.
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