Too Much Fun

Artist: The Holy Modal Rounders
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 018964316327
EAN: 0018964316327
ASIN: B00000JG25

Release Date: 1999-10-26

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The Holy Modal Rounders
Punk to Pop... a plethora of pleasures!
some groovy stuff
gipsy sun & rainbows

Tracks:

Happy Rolling Cowboy
Antoinette
Bad Boy
Violets So Blue
Euphoria
Sail Away Ladies
Penny's Farm
Bonaparte's Retreat
Tea Song
Precious Jewel
A Blues Serenade
Skin Game
Long Journey
Crowley Waltz
Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake
Year Of Jubilo
New John The Revelator

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Customer Reviews:

Music that makes all other seem pretentious.......2006-02-25

Disclaimer; I love the HMRounder Family in all forms (HMR, Michael Hurley, Jeffrey Frederick and Clamtones), but for many years I was content to listen and laugh to the 1976 classic HAVE MOICY! Then I awakened and began exploring all the rest. I have to say my favorites are I MAKE A WISH FOR A POTATO and TOO MUCH FUN! Both are collections of older recordings and remakes and while they overlap and repeat some they are both essential for the tunes they don't share. And while the extended family makes occasional appearance, mostly we get Stampfel and Weber sharing their infectious madness.

These songs make me smile and laugh aloud - poignant, silly, rough and raw, this is music from the heart. I'd recommend the curious start with HAVE MOICY! But the wise shouldn't pass up these new releases.

Best freakin' album.......2005-06-10

Better than earlier Rounders albums? Absolutely, and I'll go one step further. This is the best freakin' album of any kind of music ever. I mean it. Every time I play this thing, it makes me feel like no other music does. When I play it in the car, I'm almost driving off the road from stomping and squawking along. This after having the album for five years! These guys have not an ounce of embarrassment in them, and for that I love them. It's the least pretentious music I've ever heard. I sure hope I'm like Stampfel and Weber when I hit 60...

Better Than Ever.......2004-11-16

Usually new albums by the artists you loved 35 years ago are a disappointment. This one was even better than the earlier ones --both the new songs and the new versions of old ones. The "Bad Boys" song is great!

The Boys are Back in Town.......2001-10-30

The Holy Modal Rounders are back! Returning to the near form of their first two Prestige releases, the Rounders have put together a joyous set of exuberant, foot-stomping revelry. Still interpreting music with one foot in tradition and the other (we're assuming they have two feet) in their own universe, the Modals are modestly transporting us to their reverent yet fun-filled world. Borrowing and updating from the first two classic albums; Euphoria, Sail Away Ladies and Crowley Waltz, plus a few eccentric originals, mixed with renderings of tunes from friends (Robin Remaily and Michael Hurley) and more customary fare from blues, country and old-timey, the pair, with bassist David reisch, still haven't lost the ability to put a smile on your face. When need be, they can play it straight, as in the heart-rendering version of Roy Acuff's Precious Jewel. This record is a very satisfying musical collection of esoterica which comes close to matching the originals in spirit and form. If you want to just kick back and enjoy yourself, you certainly can do no worse than putting this CD in the player.As much as you might, try and stop that grin from appearing after a couple of notes. If you really want to double your pleasure, read the booklet as you listen. Good stuff!

Surprised!.......2000-05-02

I've read lots of glowing reviews about these guys, but I didn't believe it. So I took a chance, and I love it. Although, at first I wasn't so sure. You see, the playing on the album threw me off. I was expecting something else. But thats the whole point. the banjos and guitars and the vocals all sound off the cuff and spontaneous to me. Its so refreshing to here the fun they're having with "euphoria" and others...they are making classics like the old songs they covet from the harry smith anthology. Its so cool after listening to the polished product that prevails in the market. Let's hope the next album takes less time.... somebody give Peter Stampfel a grant !

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