Bongwater "Double Bummer 2xLP '88 Kramer King Missile Sun City Girls Negativland
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BONGWATER "Double Bummer" Original Double LP release / Out-of-Print / Very Rare Shimmy Disc ? shimmy 00000000000011 US 1988
CONDITION: Vinyl x 2 are both Near Mint minus (NM-), with just a few light minor short hairlines/sleeve brushings per side only! Still super high gloss! Cover/Artwork/Inner Sleeves are all Very Good plus (VG+), with some light edge wear and a minor bend crease bottom left corner; otherwise, a clean, sharp, bright copy of this long out- of-print rare double LP! ( SEE PHOTOS ) ____________________________________________________________________
Beginning an album career with an utterly schizophrenic double album that ran the gamut from reinterpretations of Led Zeppelin songs with Chinese lyrics to such zingily titled rants as "David Bowie Wants Ideas" might not seem like the most sane approach. Then again, Bongwater were one insane group. Kramer and Magnuson's screwy take on art rock á la Henry Cow or early Faust is fairly overwhelming, though perhaps this is the whole point. With the help of Kramer's fellow Shockabilly vet David Licht on drums and King Missile guitarist Dave Rick, not to mention free jazz legend Don Cherry on a cut or two, the duo cranks up the overall weirdness factor, whether quiet or loud, to great effect. One definite carryover from Kramer and Licht's Shockabilly days is a fondness for tweaked reinterpretations of older tunes. Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Pt. 2," Michael Nesmith's "Just May Be the One," and the Beatles' "Love You Too" and "Rain" are among some of the victims, at points rendered unrecognizable. Johnny Cash's "There You Go," however, gets a lovely, straightforward take. The musicians' overall abilities are quite impressive; given all the recording took place at Kramer's hole-in-the-wall studio, everything sounds pretty sharp throughout, and the use of various multi-tracking and production tricks fills out Double Bummer very well. Magnuson, though, steals the show with both her strong singing and witty, nutty spoken word pieces. "Decadent Iranian Country Club" recounts a dream set at such a location -- "pre-Ayatollah," she carefully notes -- with a sweetly off semi-whisper over an increasingly queasy guitar arrangement. As for the Bowie number, she details receiving a form letter from the Thin White Duke accidentally inviting her to contribute to a new album before meeting David Byrne out of nowhere and drinking perfume, the band doing a weird-ass psych jam behind it all. The CD version includes a three-song epilogue, the Breaking No New Ground EP, and a single featuring covers of Roky Erickson's "You Don't Love Me Yet" and the Monkees' "The Porpoise Song." ...ALLmusic
Track Listing
A1 Lesbians Of Russia A2 Frank A3 We Did It Again A4 Homer A5 Joy Ride A6 Decadent Iranian Country Club A7 David Bowie Wants Ideas A8 Rock & Roll Part 2 B1 Just May Be The One B2 There You Go B3 Shark B4 Jimmy B5 Crime B6 Pornography B7 Pew C1 Dazed & Chinese C2 Bullaby C3 So Help Me God C4 His Old Look C5 Stone C6 Number D1 Love You Too D2 Reaganation D3 Double Birth D4 Bruce D5 Pool D6 Rain
Credits
- Featuring – Ann Magnuson, Coby Barry, Dave Rick, David Licht, Don Cherry, Gary Windo, Kramer
- Producer, Engineer – Kramer
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