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Bongwater

Double Bummer

• 2 12" LPs
• Includes insert. 
• 1988 Shimmy Disc / Made in USA
• Cat No: SHIMMY-0000000000011
• Condition: Used / VG+
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Beginning an album career with an utterly schizophrenic double album that ran the gamut from reinterpretations of Led Zeppelin songs with Chinese lyrics to such zingily titled rants as "David Bowie Wants Ideas" might not seem like the most sane approach. Then again, Bongwater were one insane group. Kramer and Magnuson's screwy take on art rock á la Henry Cow or early Faust is fairly overwhelming, though perhaps this is the whole point. With the help of Kramer's fellow Shockabilly vet David Licht on drums and King Missile guitarist Dave Rick, not to mention free jazz legend Don Cherry on a cut or two, the duo cranks up the overall weirdness factor, whether quiet or loud, to great effect. One definite carryover from Kramer and Licht's Shockabilly days is a fondness for tweaked reinterpretations of older tunes. Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Pt. 2," Michael Nesmith's "Just May Be the One," and the Beatles' "Love You Too" and "Rain" are among some of the victims, at points rendered unrecognizable. Johnny Cash's "There You Go," however, gets a lovely, straightforward take. The musicians' overall abilities are quite impressive; given all the recording took place at Kramer's hole-in-the-wall studio, everything sounds pretty sharp throughout, and the use of various multi-tracking and production tricks fills out Double Bummer very well. Magnuson, though, steals the show with both her strong singing and witty, nutty spoken word pieces. "Decadent Iranian Country Club" recounts a dream set at such a location -- "pre-Ayatollah," she carefully notes -- with a sweetly off semi-whisper over an increasingly queasy guitar arrangement. As for the Bowie number, she details receiving a form letter from the Thin White Duke accidentally inviting her to contribute to a new album before meeting David Byrne out of nowhere and drinking perfume, the band doing a weird-ass psych jam behind it all. 

1. Lesbians Of Russia
2. Frank
3. We Did It Again
4. Homer
5. Joy Ride
6. Decadent Iranian Country Club
7. David Bowie Wants Ideas
8. Rock & Roll Part 2
9. Just May Be The One
10. There You Go
11. Shark
12. Jimmy
13. Crime
14. Pornography
15. P.F.W.
16. Dazed and Chinese
17. Bullaby
18. So Help Me God
19. His Old Look
20. Stone
21. Number
22. Love You To
23. Reaganation
24. Double Birth
25. Bruce
26. Poll
27. Rain

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