Title: The Grand Pecking Order
Artiste: Oysterhead
Genre: Psychedelia
Familiarity: Zero
Recommended by: TechnicLePanther
Expectations:Not the first clue. This is, or was, apparently, a so-called supergroup comprising members of Phish, Primus and The Police (not sure if the alliteration there was intentional or just incidental) and this was their only album. Hmm.
1. Little faces: Nice beat, kind of psychedelic with a weird, very quiet vocal. Not bad. Spacey. Man.
2. Oz is ever floating: More kind of hard rock/psych. Yeah it's okay.
3. Mr. Oysterhead: This is pretty funky. Great guitar solo.
4. Shadow of a man: Great guitar work continues into this track. Not crazy about the vocal, though the lyrical content is good. Actually, no, I'm getting into it now.
5. Radon balloon: This is a nice little low-key, almost folk track with a sort of Roger Waters feel to it.
6. Army's on ecstasy: The note of “let's just have a laugh” is wearing a little thin now to be honest. This is just silly, but then there's that rather sweet guitar. Hmm. Heads, tails, heads, tails.... give it an Orange.
7. Rubberneck lions: This is better. Kind of a Waitsy/Beefheart vocal then it trips along nicely with a nice sense of fun, while still being a good song. A tad overstretched for no reason though.
8. Polka dot rose: Yeah it's okay I guess. Meh.
9. Birthday boys: Back to the softer folky side of this band that I prefer. This is nice. Good vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar is really good. Strange little song, CSNY vibe about it.
10. Wield the spade: This is pretty weird. I kind of like it. Kind of.
11. Pseudo suicide: Good sense of seventies hard rock here, like the guitar runs.
12. The grand pecking order: Another very Waitsy style tune, kind of reminds me of “Underground” mixed with Genesis's similarly-titled “The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging”. Pretty cool really.
13. Owner of the world: This has a kind of Bowie vibe to it. Decent rock. Not bad.
End result: It wasn't terrible. The somewhat jokey idea is a little annoying at times, as I said, but I wouldn't hate it. The music was decent enough. I certainly wouldn't be shouting about a new discovery though.
So, Love or Hate? Think it can have a
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