Monday, November 29, 2004
THE DUDLEY MANLOVE QUARTET
Are Go!
Mighty Recordings, 1997
Who remembers the great lounge music craze of 1997? Hands? No? Okay, you remember the movie Swingers and The Brian Setzer Orchestra and all that shit? Yeah, I was ahead of the curve on that crap. I was picking up Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman CD's in the early 1990's. Why? Because I had bought every other CD ever made.
Anyway, here's a bunch of post-grunge Seattlites who did just about the only "hip" career move they could in the mid-1990's, and that was to stop playing all those crappy original rock songs they had written, and start playing a whole bunch of old, crappy lounge songs they hadn't written! Genius! Then give the band a goofy, retro name! No Dudley Manlove in the group! (Paging Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd!) Not a quartet, they have six members! (Paging Ben Folds Five! Choke! Wheeze! GAG!)
Needless to say, there's absolutely NO REASON for any of this to exist. It's a bunch of cynical, bandwagon-hopping, turgid dung. And that means, of course...I LOVE IT!!!
Thankfully, this is a live recording, since a lounge act needs to be seen in its natural habitat, A LOUNGE. They hit a wide variety of covers here, and I appreciate the variety. It's a veritable CRAP BUFFET! Yes, Theme From The Love Boat, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Spanish Flea (the seldom-heard vocal version!), and the Theme From Shaft. We cover Tom Jones (What's New Pussycat), Elvis (Clambake, Suspicious Minds), and The Bee Gees (More Than A Woman - the one cut I would have jettisoned). There's even the Theme From Love American Style, a truly insipid (I meant inspired, whoops) choice out of the Cowsills songbook.
The boys in DMQ have since released two more CDs and I believe they are still gigging. Hoist that Zippo high boys, and keep the cheese flowing! By the way, Dudley Manlove was one of the "stars" of the immortal Ed Wood classick, Plan Nine From Outer Space, and a really lame actor. Plus his name was Manlove.
Rating: Used buy.
Are Go!
Mighty Recordings, 1997
Who remembers the great lounge music craze of 1997? Hands? No? Okay, you remember the movie Swingers and The Brian Setzer Orchestra and all that shit? Yeah, I was ahead of the curve on that crap. I was picking up Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman CD's in the early 1990's. Why? Because I had bought every other CD ever made.
Anyway, here's a bunch of post-grunge Seattlites who did just about the only "hip" career move they could in the mid-1990's, and that was to stop playing all those crappy original rock songs they had written, and start playing a whole bunch of old, crappy lounge songs they hadn't written! Genius! Then give the band a goofy, retro name! No Dudley Manlove in the group! (Paging Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd!) Not a quartet, they have six members! (Paging Ben Folds Five! Choke! Wheeze! GAG!)
Needless to say, there's absolutely NO REASON for any of this to exist. It's a bunch of cynical, bandwagon-hopping, turgid dung. And that means, of course...I LOVE IT!!!
Thankfully, this is a live recording, since a lounge act needs to be seen in its natural habitat, A LOUNGE. They hit a wide variety of covers here, and I appreciate the variety. It's a veritable CRAP BUFFET! Yes, Theme From The Love Boat, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You, Spanish Flea (the seldom-heard vocal version!), and the Theme From Shaft. We cover Tom Jones (What's New Pussycat), Elvis (Clambake, Suspicious Minds), and The Bee Gees (More Than A Woman - the one cut I would have jettisoned). There's even the Theme From Love American Style, a truly insipid (I meant inspired, whoops) choice out of the Cowsills songbook.
The boys in DMQ have since released two more CDs and I believe they are still gigging. Hoist that Zippo high boys, and keep the cheese flowing! By the way, Dudley Manlove was one of the "stars" of the immortal Ed Wood classick, Plan Nine From Outer Space, and a really lame actor. Plus his name was Manlove.
Rating: Used buy.
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