Nevertheless Optimistic

Nevertheless Optimistic

ASIN: B0000D9PHT

Editorial Reviews
Trouser Press Record Guide
The American record industry's failure to recognize and promote (R. Stevie) is a case of criminal neglect.

Product Description
NEVERTHELESS OPTIMISTIC was produced by IRWIN CHUSID (of Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Songs in the Key of Z and Langley Schools Music Project notoriety). The album is a virtuoso showcase for Moore's popcentric vision and skill at screwing around with tape decks that don't always behave. Happy accidents make for unpredictable music in the hands of a man who never met a mistake he couldn't tweak to his advantage. The album features collaborations with XTC guitarist Dave Gregory and Shimmy Disc maverick Kramer. It also includes a dubbed duet with outsider music scat legend Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn. The rest of Nevertheless contains lots of guitar weirdness, quirky lyrics, bastard bluegrass, and melodic ballads. Stevie plays most everything, and engineered it too. His daddy played bass with Elvis for ten years, but that's irrelevant. His back hurts. That's relevant.

Nevertheless Optimistic

Tracks:

Hug Me
Dates
First-Hand
Holocaust Parade
Part Of The Problem
Hobbies Galore
Irony
Funny Child
Back In Time
The Jinx
Wayne, Wayne
Pedestrian Hop
Copy Me
Blues For Cathy Taylor
I Hate People
In My Own Quiet Way
One Moore Time
Cuss Me Out
I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover
Indian Giver
The Man With The Cigar
Love Is The Way To My Heart
Moons

Album Description

NEVERTHELESS OPTIMISTIC was produced by IRWIN CHUSID (of Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Songs in the Key of Z and Langley Schools Music Project notoriety). The album is a virtuoso showcase for Moore's popcentric vision and skill at screwing around with tape decks that don't always behave. Happy accidents make for unpredictable music in the hands of a man who never met a mistake he couldn't tweak to his advantage. The album features collaborations with XTC guitarist Dave Gregory and Shimmy Disc maverick Kramer. It also includes a dubbed duet with outsider music scat legend Shooby Taylor, the Human Horn. The rest of Nevertheless contains lots of guitar weirdness, quirky lyrics, bastard bluegrass, and melodic ballads. Stevie plays most everything, and engineered it too. His daddy played bass with Elvis for ten years, but that's irrelevant. His back hurts. That's relevant.

Customer Reviews:

R. Stevie Moore - Musical Genius !!!.......2007-04-11

This cd is amazing! R. Stevie Moore is one of the most amazing musicians I have ever listened to. His lyrics are very clever as well, not the putrid sameness of most top 40 pop. This cd has slow as well as more up beat songs. Stevie moves well from one to the other. I have listened to the Beatles White
Album as well as Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. As much acclaim as those albums get, I still think this album is more creative and musically pleasing.
Long live R. Stevie Moore! There hasn't been a musical genius like this since
Mozart!

More accolades!!.......2004-02-13

I'm just one more person who needs to sing the praises of this album. The songwriting is so strong that one immediately forgets any of the technical deficiencies of the recordings.
In a perfect world, bands would cover R. Stevie Moore songs the way they used to cover Bob Dylan songs. Good lord, I might even start listening to the radio again if that happened!

Nevertheless Supercalifragilistic!.......2004-01-31

I can add practically nothing to the other reviews of this extraordinary collection of extraordinary songs written, recorded, played by and produced in the inimitable manner of one R. Stevie Moore. The man is a legend and his enormous catalog is legendary. Take everything great, interesting, unusual, witty, odd, tuneful,
mindblowing, idiosyncratic, emotional, and special about music recorded in the last 60 years, pop it in a blender named Moore
and drink up the tasty results!

RSM is the GodFather of Weird.......2004-01-29

Words can't express...our infinite smallness compared to his.....infinite bigness just makes our smallness and his bigness seem like......ummm, from entirely different planets. Or so I think.
Maybe not?
Can't I just be a lumberjack or something?
Buy it and believe in something bigger than yourself, or Britney, whatever.

A TRUE ORIGINAL.......2004-01-29

What can one say about R. Stevie Moore than hasn't been said about . . . oh, say . . . Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, or fill in your own ultra-original creative genius. R. Stevie is a musical machine, having cranked out nearly 400 (count `em 400!) full-length albums since 1968. As Nevertheless Optimistic demonstrates, he is proficient and original in virtually every musical genre. He is a brilliant arranger and producer of SOUNDS, an excellent satirist, biting social commentator, insightful observer of the human condition, a hopelessly romantic poet, curmudgeon, and country comedian. He is overwhelming. His music will draw you in, and then push you away, even though you want to get closer. His music touches, and makes one aware of feelings that one might not wish to be aware of, or feel. Is that not art? For the uninitiated, Nevertheless Optimistic is an excellent place to begin exploring the depth of R.Stevie's musical diversity and virtuosity , equaled by only a handful of people on the planet. Treat yourself, and keep an open mind.

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