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Outsider Music and Other Off-Kilter Stuff
Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:51 am
With thanks to mikewar, a newbie at PSF. One would be forgiven for assuming, from the bizarre album title on in, that
these Tokens are a different band from the ones who sang "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". Not so! To quote AllMusic:
"The Tokens are generally thought of as the vocal group who brought their 'Lion Sleeps Tonight' hit to yet another generation through
the success of The Lion King. But what we have here is the great lost Tokens album, recorded in 1968 and promptly turned down by
Warner Bros. To fill a contractual obligation, a few hundred copies were pressed up -- in a slightly altered form -- and the album pretty
much remained an interesting catalog sighting before its CD-era reissue. What we also have here is a White doo wop group delivering
an album that falls somewhere between Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's. No wonder Warner didn't know what to make of it; previous
attempts by other doo woppers at updating their sound produced some of the most laughable examples that the genre has to offer.
But everything on here works in a very organic manner: all of the songs follow a neat continuum and could easily be termed as a
humanistic song cycle, each one surrounded by late-'60s Beatlesque production values, right down to the massively compressed
drum sounds and omnipresent tape saturation. Trippy, loopy, and totally of its time, classic doo wop this is not; great, however, it is."
Source: https://www.allmusic.com/album/intercourse-mw0000176757
Actually, it's most listenable, the uploader even considering it to be "the lost spiritual successor to The Beach Boys Smiley Smile album".
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Re: Outsider Music and Other Off-Kilter Stuff
Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:05 am
This one disappeared from YouTube for a while but now it's back in all its glory. This
is Jandek and "When The Telephone Melts" from his 1988 album You Walk Alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek
is Jandek and "When The Telephone Melts" from his 1988 album You Walk Alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek
Re: Outsider Music and Other Off-Kilter Stuff
Tue Mar 20, 2018 11:04 pm
Mr. K wrote:
That’s rather brilliant!
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Re: Outsider Music and Other Off-Kilter Stuff
Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:34 pm
This is so totally weird. It's Cara Stewart straightfacedly crooning the outrageous "Song Of The Burmese Land", written by one L. Hazelwood; not Lee Hazelwood, who categorically denies authorship--and who can blame him?
"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
Listen, I'll tell you so
"The AFPFL* government told the people
When 10 o'clock strikes night
Don't make a noise, don't be a nuisance
Let the people sleep
"If a permit you should get
You can make a noise
If anyone asks, you can say
A permit we have got
"Always at this feast, always at that feast
Chinese, Burmese, Indian
Doon doon doon dang dang dang
Boom boom boom bang bang bang
A permit we have got
"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
To the lunatic asylum I'm going"
* Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
Listen, I'll tell you so
"The AFPFL* government told the people
When 10 o'clock strikes night
Don't make a noise, don't be a nuisance
Let the people sleep
"If a permit you should get
You can make a noise
If anyone asks, you can say
A permit we have got
"Always at this feast, always at that feast
Chinese, Burmese, Indian
Doon doon doon dang dang dang
Boom boom boom bang bang bang
A permit we have got
"Burmese Land is like monkeyland
A bothersome, troublesome place
Burmese Land is like monkeyland
To the lunatic asylum I'm going"
* Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
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