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Stan Ridgway
Partyball
Geffen
Records
(1991)
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Your Step) Jack Talked, I Wanna Be a Boss, (Mouthful of Sand),
The Roadblock, Snaketrain, Right Through You, The Gumbo Man,
Harry Truman, (Venus is Hell) Overlords, (OK?) Uba's House of
Fashions, (Bad News at the Dynamite Ranch) Beyond Tomorrow
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In this
1991 album, plenty of the Ridgway elements which supplied
the vitality to previous releases are present - but more avant
garde tones are starting to be introduced. Mini, ambient compositions
punctuate the main tracks and an increasingly experimental
tone is adopted as the album wears on. Boasts one of Ridgway's
most haunting and moving songs, "Right Through You," while
"Harry Truman", "Roadblock", and the other-worldly "Beyond
Tomorrow" make for a richly varied pallette that transports
the listener from rural towns to the farthest reaches of the
galaxy; from historical tragedies to lives in the balance;
the album embodies them all. The delusionary underdog epic
"I Wanna Be A Boss" is the albums sole single and ends up
on morning drive time radio shows throughout the U.S. and
in the U.K. Off on tour again. "
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