Lounge Lizards

Lounge Lizards Artist: The Lounge Lizards
Label: Editions Eg Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 017046156127
EAN: 0017046156127
ASIN: B000003S2C


Release Date: 1990-09-26

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Tracks:

  1. Incident On South Street
  2. Harlem Nocturne
  3. Do The Wrong Thing
  4. Au Contaire Arto
  5. Well You Needn't
  6. Ballad
  7. Wangling
  8. Conquest Of Rar
  9. Demented
  10. I Remember Coney Island
  11. Fattly Walks
  12. Epistrophy
  13. You Haunt Me

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars the original and best.......2003-03-12

Long before John Zorn's blend of hardcore and jazz in Naked City, John Lurie put together this intense jazz-punk hybrid. It has a sleazy, gritty sound that shows the early development and experimentation of the long-running institution that is The Lounge Lizards.

Lurie's sax plays many of the melodies, but perhaps more of a feature is the insane scraping sounds of Arto Lindsay's guitar and Evan Lurie wildly tinkering on the electric piano. Drummer Anton Fier's style sounds a bit more rock than jazz, which also adds to the punkiness.

The material is mostly by John Lurie, and falls somewhere between sexy, loungy jazz ("Ballad", "You Haunt Me" and a pretty straight reading of Earle Hagen's "Harlem Nocturne") and upbeat crazy pieces ("Wangling", Thelonius Monk's "Well You Needn't" and "Epistrophy"), at times somewhat Frank Zappa-ish, as another review mentioned.

Later incarnations of The Lounge Lizards saw Lurie adding more and more horns, then other instruments and eventually creating a more layered sound, which incorporated some elements of classical and African musics (among countless others). All of their work has been great, but this, their debut album still remains the most fresh and exciting.

5 out of 5 stars 5 LIZARDS ARE VERY DANGEREOUS!!!!!!!.......2001-01-24

THIS IS THEIR DEBUT ALBUM , BUT VERY WELL . THIS IS PUNK-JAZZ , ARTO PLAYS VERY AGRESSIVE&STRANGE . THE 3. SONG IS ALWAYS BETWEEN MY FAVOURITES SONGS . IT'S NAME IS "DO THE WRONG THING "

BUY THIS ALBUM , DO THE RIGHT THING !!!

4 out of 5 stars Brilliant Debut.......2000-06-01

John Lurie has recorded good material since this was made, but this particular CD is unique; it captures the band while they were still developing, and is fascinating for that reason alone.

Basically, I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes Frank Zappa's early 70's output ("Grand Wazoo", "Waka/Jawaka", "Weasels") and/or Henry Cow ("Leg End", etc.). If this is your first taste of this sort of music, it may take a while to grow on you. But once it does, you'll be listening to all music with different ears.

Glad to see this is still available in some form; I bought this in '81, and still go back to it when I need to remember what experimental jazz can sound like when a sense of humor and history are present.

4 out of 5 stars Free Jazz/No-Wave Collision.......2000-05-29

The debut Lounge Lizards here featured guitarist Arto Lindsay who along w/ Ikue Mori went on to form the legendary downtown NYC No-Wave band DNA and then worked with John Zorn, formed the Ambitious Lovers....and so on. Here he is in unique and profound form, blasting out oddly phrased tones from his infamous no-name (? ) red 12-string guitar...

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