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Ole! Tarantula (CD)

By: Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Ole! Tarantula (CD) Album By Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 ...
1   Adventure Rocket Ship
2   Underground Sun
3   Museum Of Sex
4   Belltown Ramble
5   Ole! Tarantula
6   Man's Gotta Know His Limitations Briggs, A
7   Red Locust Frenzy
8   'Cause It's Love (Saint Parallelogram)
9   Authority Box, The
10   N.Y. Doll
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Hitchcock has a knockout gift for Beatlesesque melodicism, and the Venus 3 rev it up here with a beat-combo drive and star-shine twang..."
Spin (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Hitchcock uses surreal wordplay and crispy melodies to tame reality, not escape it."
Q (p.143) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is most conventionally rocking album in aeons, with 'Underground Sun', especially, a textbook example of big churning guitars and deep-pile harmonies."
Magnet (p.99) - "Hitchcock's best songs are always weighted with somber sentiments....'N.Y. Doll' is a stunning elegy for glam bassist Arthur Kane."
CMJ (p.52) - "OLE! trots out swirling sure things of colorful chords and harmonies."
No Depression (p.100) - "With Buck serving as Hitchcock's primary guitar foil, OLE! TARANTULA is as catchy and weird and oh-so-English as you've come to expect from Hitchcock."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's Hitchcock's adenoidal vocals and left-of-centre lyricism that are the highlight of his most satisfying album in a decade."

Title Note

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Robyn Hitchcock (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Scott McCaughey (vocals, piano, bass guitar); Peter Buck (guitar, bass guitar); Bill Rieflin (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Kimberley Rew (guitar); Chris Ballew (slide guitar, keyboard, synthesizer, background vocals); Colin Izod (saxophone); Ian McLagan (keyboards); Morris Windsor (percussion, background vocals).

For his first proper "band" album since the Soft Boys' reunion record in 2002, Robyn Hitchcock assembled a good one, drawing on the Minus 5/REM pool and also enlisting his former bandmates (Morris Windsor, Kimberley Rew) for added touches. While his subject matter is as dour and screwy as always, the band infuses every song with a crackling energy that echoes with joy and life, from the shimmering country-rocker "(A Man's Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs" to the bouncy shuffle "Belltown Ramble" to the snaky, lurching neo-psychedelia of "Museum of Sex."

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