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=== Aiding & Abetting === | |||
August 31, 1994<ref>https://www.aidabet.com/archives/archR.html#REDK</ref><blockquote>If you remember the Mayo Thompson re-issue from earlier in the summer, you should be prepared. | |||
Having been around for over 25 years, The Red Krayola is the main vehicle of Thompson's muse. He gets a few friends together and they play some very odd music. In years past it might have been called "psychedelic pop", I suppose, but that term has mutated over the years, and I don't think that's quite right now. | |||
I think I like "eclectic pop" better. The Red Krayola folks turn traditional rhythms ad melodies on their heads, exposing them as the true opiates of the masses. It can be difficult listening to an album with so many discordant statements, but as you know, I like that sort of thing. | |||
Anything that makes me think this much is certainly fine. And if this music doesn't haunt your mind like a pissed off secret, then you didn't listen hard enough the first time. Like it says, "Play Extremely Loud."</blockquote> | |||
=== The Trouser Press guide to '90s rock === | === The Trouser Press guide to '90s rock === | ||
Revision as of 04:37, 12 May 2023
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| Studio album by The Red Krayola | |
| Released | September 19, 1994 |
| Recorded | 1994 |
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| Label |  Drag City
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Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Jimmy Silk/Supper Be Ready Medley" | 1:57 |
| 2. | "Pride" | 1:06 |
| 3. | "Book of Kings" | 2:40 |
| 4. | "Pessimisty" | 2:50 |
| 5. | "Worms, Worms, Thirst" | 1:38 |
| 6. | "People Get Ready (The Train's Not Coming)" | 3:22 |
| 7. | "If 'S' Is" | 2:06 |
| 8. | "Miss X" | 2:37 |
| 9. | "Rapspierre" | 2:44 |
| 10. | "Stand-Up" | 2:42 |
| 11. | "Art-Dog" | 1:09 |
| 12. | "I Knew It" | 1:54 |
| 13. | "101st" | 1:54 |
| 14. | "(Why) I'm So Blasé" | 2:07 |
| 15. | "The Big Macumba" | 2:42 |
| 16. | "Voodoo Child" | 1:47 |
| 17. | "Suddenly" | 1:51 |
Background
Personnel
Musicians
David Grubbs, John McEntire, Albert Oehlen, Jim O'Rourke, Stephen Prina, Mayo Thompson, Tom Watson
Cover art
The cover photo was taken by Albert Oehlen. It appears to depict the Volksparkstadion stadium in Hamburg, Germany.[1] The visible advertisements are for "Nova Versicherungen," an insurance company, and "Tom T" — maybe Tom Tailor, a clothing brand based in Hamburg and a major sponsor of the Hamburger SV team until 2003.[2]
Reviews
Aiding & Abetting
August 31, 1994[3]
If you remember the Mayo Thompson re-issue from earlier in the summer, you should be prepared.
Having been around for over 25 years, The Red Krayola is the main vehicle of Thompson's muse. He gets a few friends together and they play some very odd music. In years past it might have been called "psychedelic pop", I suppose, but that term has mutated over the years, and I don't think that's quite right now.
I think I like "eclectic pop" better. The Red Krayola folks turn traditional rhythms ad melodies on their heads, exposing them as the true opiates of the masses. It can be difficult listening to an album with so many discordant statements, but as you know, I like that sort of thing.
Anything that makes me think this much is certainly fine. And if this music doesn't haunt your mind like a pissed off secret, then you didn't listen hard enough the first time. Like it says, "Play Extremely Loud."
The Trouser Press guide to '90s rock
1997[4]
Recorded by a collective of seven (including guitarists David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke and Tom Watson, drummer John McEntire and German synthesist Albert Oehlen), The Red Krayola is a potent modern exposition of Thompson's Beefheart-ian musical inventions and wickedly offbeat lyrics. For all its idiosyncratic juxtapositions, the album is a relatively straightforward electric affair — alternatively engaging and patience testing — that sends antagonistic elements (noisy guitar, catatonic electronic blips, contrary rhythms) out to disrupt the calmly logical organization of restrained, tuneful inventions like the waltz-time "Jimmy Silk/Supper By Ready Medley," "Pride," "Book of Kings," (which paraphrases Carly Simon and quotes children's verse), the courtly, Roxy Music-like "Miss X," the chromatic "Art-Dog" and "Suddenly," crooned as a sweet harmony vocal exercise. Traditionally cavalier in his appreciation of song structures, Thompson fleshes out the album with "Rapspierre" (another of his accelerated Marxist theory courses, this one containing sing-song doggrel about monkeys, random keyboard noises and turntable scratches), the ripping drive-gear "People Get Ready (The Train's Not Coming)" near-instrumental and the catchy mantra "I Knew It." Provocative and, for the most part, highly entertaining.
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