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Rating: How much I love my little used CD shop. Unfortunately, it is now leaning almost entirely towards new items. New technologies lead to less and less CD purchases and consequently the second-hand market is becoming less and less thriving. Despite this, I still manage to find something, and just yesterday this EP from that prankster Les Claypool's band ended up in my hands.
Let's start by saying that it's an album consisting of seven covers plus two live tracks. Moreover, there are special features, including the splendid video of The devil went down to Georgia".
The album is from 1998 and on drums is Brian Mantia.
The best-done cover is certainly "The family and the fishing net" by Peter Gabriel, but "Behind my camel" by The Police isn't bad at all either. On the other hand, I wasn't very convinced by "The thing that should not be" by Metallica.
Furthermore, Primus self-reference themselves in a darker version of "Too many puppies," and Claypool gives his best in "Silly putty" by the great Stanley Clarke.
The two live tracks are the always excellent "Tommy the cat" and "Bob's party time lounge," recorded at the Kaiser Auditorium on New Year's Eve '98.
What can I say, not an essential album, but certainly a gem for fans of one of the best bands on the planet.
Track list:
- Scissor Man (XTC)
- The Family and the Fishing Net (Peter Gabriel)
- Silly Putty (Stanley Clarke)
- Amos Moses (Jerry Reed)
- Behind My Camel (The Police)
- Too Many Puppies (remix)
- The Thing That Should Not Be (Metallica)
- Tommy the Cat (live)
- Bob's Party Time Lounge (live)
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
04 Amos Moses (03:11)
Amos Moses was a Cajun.
And lived by himself in the swamp
Hunting alligator for a living.
Knock 'em on the head with a stump
The Louisiana law's gonna get you, Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp, boy
Now everybody blamed his old man
for raising him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy,
his Daddy would use him as alligator bait
Tie a rope around his waist,
throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait on the Louisiana bayou
Just about 45 minutes
southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana
There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam
and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son that could
eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth.
They called him Amos Moses
Now folks in South Louisiana
said Amos was a helluva man
He could trap the biggest, meanest alligator.
He only had to use one hand
That's all he got left
'cause the alligator bit him. Ha ha!
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
Just about 45 minutes
southeast of Tipidow, Louisiana
There lived a man called Duck Bill Sam
and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son that could
eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth.
They called him Amos Moses
Here comes Amos
And you should have seen his pretty wife, Hannah
Well, the Sheriff got wind that
Amos was in the swamp hunting alligator skin
So he hid in the swamp, I'm gonna get you boy.
He never did come out again.
Well, I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to?
Sure can get lost in the Louisiana bayou (3X)
06 Too Many Puppies (03:01)
Too many puppies are being shot in the dark.
Too many puppies are trained not to bark.
At the sight of blood that must be spilled so that we may maintain
our oil fields.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies are taught to heel.
Too many puppies are trained to kill.
On the command of men wearing money belts that buy mistresses
sleek animal pelts.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies.
Too many puppies with guns in their hands.
Too many puppies in foreign lands.
Are dressed up sharp in suits of green and placed upon the war
machine.
Too many puppies are just like me.
Too many puppies are afraid to see.
The visions of the past brought to life again,
too many puppies, too many dead men.
07 The Thing That Should Not Be (06:46)
Messenger of Fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for Father, roaming free
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Crawling Chaos, underground
cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
fallen city, living death
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
stranger eons Death may die
drain you of your sanity
face The Thing That Should Not Be
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
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