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Mystical Shit/Fluting On The Hump (CD)

By: King Missile (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Mystical Shit/Fluting On The Hump (CD) Album By King Missile (Artist)
1   Title Track
2   Rock 'N Roll Will Never Die
3   No Point
4   Gary And Melissa
5   Frightened And Freezing
6   How To Remember Your Dreams
7   Fish That Played The Ponies, The
8   Jesus Was Way Cool
9   Open
10   Sandbox, The
11   Neither World, The
12   She Didn't Want
13   Cheesecake Truck
14   Equivalencies
15   Love You More
16   Fourthly
17   Lou
18   At Dave's
19   Muffy
20   Take Stuff From Work
21   Sensitive Artist
22   Wuss
23   Heavy Holy Man
24   Fluting On The Hump
25   Dick
26   That Old Dog
 

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Review

Q (8/99, p.130) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...worth an occasional tickle of the palate. Who said Americans don't get irony?"

Title Note

2 LPS on 1 CD: MYSTICAL SHIT (1990)/FLUTING ON THE HUMP (1987).

King Missile: John S. Hall (vocals, flute, harmonica); Dave Rick, Dogbowl (guitar, background vocals); Alex DeLaszio (harmonica, saxophone, background vocals); Chris Xefos (accordion, tuba, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, background vocals); George O'Malley (xylophone, chimes); Steve Dansinger, R.B. Korbet (drums, background vocals).

Recording information: Noise Studios, New York, New York.

In the mid-1980s, John S. Hall would get up on NYC anti-folk stages (centered at the East Village's Sidewalk Caf‚), and spout his wonderful poetic nonsense about fish betting on horseracing, driving cheesecake trucks, and way-cool saviors baking delicious cakes, in his inimitable wry, deadpan, ironic voice. By the end of the decade, he had hooked up with guitarist Dogbowl and built up a band whose cobbled-together, gleefully directionless, lower-than-lo-fi sound paired deliciously with its frontman's wandering stories. King Missile caught the eye of avant-garde producer Kramer, signed to his Shimmydisc, and released three bizarre records that built immense college buzz about the band.

MYSTICAL SHIT/FLUTING ON THE HUMP gathers together the top songs from the act's Shimmydisc recordings, including the now-standards hinted at in the first sentence. The highest peak is the irreverent "Take Stuff From Work," which ends on a classic note: "I'm getting paid to write songs about stuff I stole from them. Life is good." This ultimately sums up the spirit of the irascible Hall (and to an extent King Missile): for all his angst, he's clearly having fun.

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