H0W CAN YOU RESISTR.Stevie Moore??? // NJ56 1982 CD/C60 - now available as 2CD set with Trial and Error
01. Nice Pastel Shades (2:53)
02. Get The Job Done (4:38)
03. Living Voices ˛°° (4:25)
04. Bad Posture (2:22)
05. Girls At Once! (1:42)
06. Ears' Ultimate Goal (0:39)
07. Back Then (4:46)
08. Full Speed Ahead (0:41)
09. Tylenol Fall (1:24)
10. Took A Wrong Turn (7:26)
11. Orders (3:23)
12. D.J.Fib (1:53)
13. Ditch Me (1:42)
14. Age Group (4:16)
15. Way (0:37)
16. Phallus Gap (1:52)
17. A N B/ (0:42)
18. Resistance (2:46)
19. The Noise Of Speech (2:45)
20. The Official Tapography (9:41)
21. Daglian (1:01)
Bonus Track:
22. WFMU Reading (11:55) 7-26-82
total time: 73:31
Recorded with Jim Price and Chris Bolger, including Irwin Chusid. Also heard are Szzn G, Jeff Way, Ed Daglian
AMG REVIEW: One of R. Stevie Moore's strongest early-'80s releases, How Can You Resist R. Stevie Moore? continues the experimental bent of immediate predecessors like Trial and Error and You and Your Employees, but it also features a renewed emphasis on Moore's talent for writing varied and hugely catchy pop songs. The first half of the album ranges from the tightly-wound synth rock of "Get the Job Done" (one of Moore's best songs from this period) to the punky guitar rant "Bad Posture," by way of the ethereal vocal overdubs of "Living Voices 100," the buzzing instrumental "Girls at Once!" and the lovely, largely acoustic ballad "Back Then." The album's second half is stranger, but nearly as satisfying, including the creepy, jangled synth instrumental "Tylenol Fall" (this album was recorded in October 1982, at the height of the hysteria engendered by the still-unsolved Tylenol poisonings), and the endearing, amusing "The Official Tapeography," a stomping rhythm loop over which Moore simply reads the title and catalog number of all the releases available up to that point from the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, each followed by a brief snippet from the album in question. A quirky but immediately appealing release, How Can You Resist R. Stevie Moore? lives up to the title's not-entirely-rhetorical question.
AMG REVIEW: One of R. Stevie Moore's strongest early-'80s releases, How Can You Resist R. Stevie Moore? continues the experimental bent of immediate predecessors like Trial and Error and You and Your Employees, but it also features a renewed emphasis on Moore's talent for writing varied and hugely catchy pop songs. The first half of the album ranges from the tightly-wound synth rock of "Get the Job Done" (one of Moore's best songs from this period) to the punky guitar rant "Bad Posture," by way of the ethereal vocal overdubs of "Living Voices 100," the buzzing instrumental "Girls at Once!" and the lovely, largely acoustic ballad "Back Then." The album's second half is stranger, but nearly as satisfying, including the creepy, jangled synth instrumental "Tylenol Fall" (this album was recorded in October 1982, at the height of the hysteria engendered by the still-unsolved Tylenol poisonings), and the endearing, amusing "The Official Tapeography," a stomping rhythm loop over which Moore simply reads the title and catalog number of all the releases available up to that point from the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, each followed by a brief snippet from the album in question. A quirky but immediately appealing release, How Can You Resist R. Stevie Moore? lives up to the title's not-entirely-rhetorical question.
