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UNPOPULAR SINGER VOL. 4 // NJ220 1995 C100 / 2CD


DISC1

[01] Welcome
[02] Who Gives A Fuck?
[03] What You Got New?*
[04] Love Is Not For Girls And Boys***
[05] Stacy McGrath
[06] I Still Want It
[07] Cease All Relationships
[08] Daddy Don't****
[09] Beyond Capacity
[10] I'll Try Anything
[11] Eenque Pen
[12] Hi 'N' Loathesomeˇ¸³
[13] All Apologies
[14] Okay?
[15] Krystyna Enough


DISC2

[01] Senator Suicide
[02] Hasty Banana
[03] Handbook
[04] Thieves In The Choir
[05] No News Is Good News
[06] Who'd He End The Blowjobs For?
[07] Telly Advert
[08] Good Job At Home**
[09] Just Like Me
[10] Could I Be The Man For You?
[11] Improcapella
[12] By Way Of Contrast
[13] 2 H.B.
[14] Nicotine Need**
[15] Alma Mater³
[16] Getting My Heart Back
[17] Reminder
[18] Fundraiser
[19] Chance
[20] My Life Could Be Better Without You


This Comp ©December 1995

All Writ, Played & Sung by Moore, plus:
Krys O : vocals
Paul Carvalho : ld guitar*, drums**
Chris Bolger : ac guitar***
Billy A & Roger F : vocals³
Mark Gendel & Llynda More : instruments****

Stolen compositions from:
Spiritpool (1/8), Morrisette (1/11), Cobain (1/13); Russell/Benno (2/4), Lindsay/Melcher (2/9), Ferry (2/13), Trad. (2/15), Steve Davis (2/20)




amglogo.gif The fourth and final volume in the Unpopular Singer series suggests a somewhat brighter outlook than the occasionally dark-edged earlier entries. The album features a kind of fatalistic black humor evinced by songs like the self-explanatory "Who Gives A Fuck?" and the actually kind of chipper piece of power-popping musical autobiography "Good Job At Home," which would have sounded entirely appropriate on R. Stevie Moore's 1976 debut Phonography. Leaning in an even sillier direction are the addictively goofy bossa nova "Hasty Banana," with lead vocals by Moore's wife Krystyna Olsiewicz, the even funnier self-duet (with Chipmunks-like tape-speed manipulations) "By Way of Contrast" and the hilarious "Eenque Pen," a seven-minute parody/deconstruction of Alanis Morrissette's "Hand In My Pocket" that keeps the first line of the chorus and continues into an increasingly smutty catalogue of the things the other hand is doing. Other highlights include the stomping "Nicotine Need," the druggily miasmatic "Fundraiser" and the chugging rocker "Getting My Heart Back," which features a rather Robert Fripp-like noise-guitar solo and a chorus that recalls prime Buzzcocks. The increasing list of oddball covers this time out includes a dreamy lo-fi take on Roxy Music's "2HB" and a new wavish version of the Paul Revere and the Raiders classic "Just Like Me." Better than the spotty and somewhat depressive Unpopular Singer Volume 3, this is a more enjoyable collection all the way around.

– Stewart Mason, All Music Guide






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