Heyday 1979-1983

Artist: The Embarrassment
Label: Bar/None Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 032862005923
EAN: 0032862005923
ASIN: B0000048EC

Release Date: 1995-10-17

Heyday 1979-1983

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Tracks:

Sex Drive
Patio Set
Celebrity Art Party
Elizabeth Montgomery's Face
(I'm A) Don Juan
Don't Choose The Wrong Song
Wellsville
Two Cars
Careen
Viewmaster
Drive Me To The Park
Lewis & Clark
D-Rings
Chapter 12
Hip And Well Read
Death Travels West
Rhythm Line
Picture Women
Special Eyes
Jazzface
Age Five
Woods Of Love
Out Of Town

Tracks:

Berliner's Night Out
After The Disco
Dress Like A Man
Two-Week Vacation
The Man With Extra Special Eyes
Lifespan
Sound Of Wasps
Can't Forget
Sexy Singer Girl
Sex Drive/Pants Down/Gibberish
Dino In The Congo
Godfrey Harold Hardy
D-Rings
Chapter 12
Jazzface
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Casual Man
Immigrant Song
She's One Of The Other Kind

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Customer Reviews:

One-off Standout.......2007-01-28

I heard a review of this CD on NPR (?) around the time it was released and ordered it, based on a few seconds of samples. I have had no regrets. I wish I'd heard of these guys when they were current! There are no good comparisons, but contemporaries like Devo and Pere Ubu come close. This music is of equal or better quality. The adrenaline rush of some of these songs is awesome, but the music AND lyrics are alternately intelligent and hysterically funny. The Embarrassment falls into a category in my collection: Superlative albums by bands that had too brief a career. I wish they'd survived a little longer...

too much of a good thing.......2006-06-24

Like alot of bands from the era the Embarrassment recorded alot of muic, some worthwhile, some not so great. I found a used copy of this a couple of years ago. I saved and burned a separate copy of "Death Travels West" (tracks 9-16 on the first CD of this set). I havent played this CD since.

Don't list items that you don't have in stock.......2005-09-01

This isn't really about the CD (which I eventually found on elsewhere), but Amazon lists the shipping time as one to two weeks, when they don't even have it in stock. I got an email saying it was back-ordered and asking if I wanted to wait longer; i eventually canceled the transaction about 1 month after ordering. I implore Amazon to list actually shipping times so no one else's time is wasted.

The CD however is amazing

Band with the extra special eyes.......2005-08-05

What can I say? This is one of the albums I could never part with. One of the great yet little known bands in America. Saw these guys way to few times. A band I was in opened for them a couple times and their liveshows were totally cool. Beat Pop at it's finest! Buy this for yourself, buy some more for your friends!! Brightest colors of the week!!

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