| Product Summary | | Label: Gadfly | | UPC: 00076605222628 | | Release Date: 3/12/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 60122108 | | Item#: MRNKJY | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. One Big (Happy) Family ~ Tonio K. |  | | 2. Say Goodbye ~ Tonio K. | | | 3. Sons Of The Revolution ~ Tonio K. | | | 4. Go Away ~ Tonio K. | | | 5. Cinderella's Baby ~ Tonio K. | | | 6. Trouble ~ Tonio K. | | | 7. Girl Crazy ~ Tonio K. | | | 8. I'll Buy It ~ Tonio K. | | | 9. Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy, The ~ Tonio K. | | | 10. Merzsuite Medley: Let Us Join Together In A Tune / Umore (A Memoir De Jacques Vache) / Futt Futt Futt ~ Tonio K. | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Includes liner notes by Tonio K. | | Personnel: Tonio K. (vocals, guitar, piano, drums); Jeanie Reed (vocals, percussion); Ike Willis (vocals); Nick VanMaarth (guitar, background vocals); Garth Hudson (accordion); Jay Gruska (organ); Paul Hertzog (keyboards); Claude Pepper (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jolly Chimp (percussion); J.E.D., Jon ?, Peter Frieberger (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Nick VanMaarth. | | Audio Remasterer: Jonathan Wyner. | | Recording information: SoundCastle (1980). | | Photographer: Dorothy White. | | Arrangers: Nick VanMaarth; Tonio K. | | Happy nihilist Tonio K. returns after his critically acclaimed Life in the Foodchain with a stronger, even more sardonic record, Amerika. With tight riffs and intelligent lyrics, Tonio K. rocks hard on this one. But if an album's message can make one want to walk into traffic, this is it. Every song here espouses the end of all hope, the absence of values, the hopelessness of the human condition -- all sung with intelligence and wit (from "Say Goodbye": "The signs are everywhere/Only no one even cares/This paradise is dying/Say goodbye"). Most notable is the Dada tribute in the final track, "Merzsuite," which is divided into three sections ("Let Us Join Together in a Tune," "Umor?," and "Futt Futt Futt"). A lot of fun. Tonio K. is punk for academics. Lots of literary and political references. Lots of words in foreign languages (he admits in the CD reissue liner notes that he doesn't know what the foreign words mean, but he can look them up). A fun recording all around. ~ Mark W.B. Allender |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/24/2005 | | Original Release Date : 1980 | | Catalog ID : 226 | | Label : Gadfly Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00076605222628 |
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