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Artist: Boiled in Lead Label: Atomic Theory Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio Cassette UPC: 042063110845 EAN: 0042063110845 ASIN: B000001DPD Release Date: 1992-09-11

Tracks:

1. Klezpolka
2. Son, Oh Son
3. Tape Decks All Over Hell
4. Snow on the Hills
5. Serbian Kolo #3
6. Army (Dream Song)
7. Harout
8. Brave Bombardier
9. Sota
10. Siege of Delhi
11. Hard Times
12. Sally in the Garden
13. Glasena Klingar
14. Town of Ballybay
15. Cunovo Oro
16. Kaen-Lao Gratop Mái

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Customer Reviews:

The Most Unique American "Folk" Band.......2000-02-15

I can't believe that there are no reviews for this great album, which combines folk, rock, classical and punk influences to produce what has been called "Celtodelic Rock'n'Reel".

Standout songs:

"Son Oh Son" -- Incest and murder in the traditional manner. Lovely, ominous and upsetting.

"Tape Decks All Over Hell" -- I have described the music of certain other performers as "rockabilly from Hell" -- well, this *is* rockabilly from Hell. After a jam session with some apparently rather unusual friends, the narrator discovers that Dante Alighieri has taken a bootleg copy with him to Hell... and he's REALLY popular Down There. Not the venue you'd like to play, though.

"Army (Dream Song)" and "Brave Bombardier" are both anti-war; "Army" is a hilarious but still scary dream narrative, and "Bombardier" is a character sketch of the man who can rain down death on people below so long as "never their faces I'll see".

"Town of Ballybay" is a marvelously silly more or less traditional Irish drinking song, played straight with a nice lilt.

"Hard Times" is an account of the assassination of President McKinley, wistfully and winningly performed.

The rest are Really Good, too.

You'll either love it or hate it, but you will *not* be neutral about it.

Music CD:

1. When the Wind Blows ~ Eric Bogle
2. ...Twenty-Five... ~ Sweet Honey in the Rock
3. Live at Open Air Burg Herzberg 1999 ~ Fairport Convention
4. Old Time, New Times ~ Benton Flippen
5. Down to the Shore (Original Songs of the Maine...) ~ Castlebay
6. Infamous Angel ~ Iris Dement
7. The Broadside Tapes 1 ~ Phil Ochs
8. First Album ~ Magna Carta
9. Woody Guthrie ~ Woody Guthrie
10. Old Bush Songs ~ A.L. Lloyd

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Thread of Blue ~ Dana Mase

The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

Daily Living ~ Shank & Chrome

Eye for an Eye ~ Corrosion of Conformity

The Forest on Fire/Princess Hundred Flowers ~ Peking Opera Company

Mugam from Azerbaijan ~ Yanar Dar

Outside of Town

Modern Artillery ~ Living End

Mo Better Blues ~ Various Artists

Flying ~ Valentino