Bulk

Bulk Artist: Jack Logan
Label: Twintone
Category: Music


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


UPC: 035058926125
EAN: 0035058926125
ASIN: B0000018W2


Release Date: 1994-06-14

Bulk


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Tracks:

  1. Fuck Everything
  2. Shrunken Head
  3. Love, Not Lunch
  4. Female Jesus
  5. Escape Clause
  6. Underneath Your Bed
  7. Just Go Away
  8. Lazy Girl Blues
  9. New Used Car And A Plate Of Bar-B-Que
  10. Opposite Directions
  11. 15 Years In Indiana
  12. Heart Attack On The Prairie
  13. Optimist
  14. Voo Doo Doll
  15. Chloroform
  16. Vegtable Belt
  17. Aloha-Ha
  18. The Sweetest Fruit
  19. Lovely
  20. Sometimes It's You
  21. Monday Night
  22. Giant City, Tiny Town
  23. Graves Are Fun To Dig
  24. Floating Cowboy

Tracks:

  1. Peace O' Mind
  2. Shipbuilding Blues
  3. The Parishioners
  4. Would I Be Happy Then
  5. Farsighted
  6. On The Beach
  7. Yes I Can
  8. Grey Steel Train
  9. Drunken Arms
  10. Good Times, Bad Memories
  11. Shit For Brains
  12. Heaven On Earth
  13. Idiot's Waltz
  14. Terminal Gate
  15. Weatherman
  16. Tex
  17. Cartoons
  18. Town Crier

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Being Jack Logan.......2007-03-02

Jack had written 600 songs,
He recorded them all at home.
He put his "four tracks" down on a CD
And got 4 stars in Rolling Stone.

4 out of 5 stars Jack must be Beck's long-lost twin brother..........2007-02-22

I must frist say that I am a HUGE Beck fan, mostly clinging to his not-so-commercialized, hard-to-find country CD's...

Given that, I think that "Bulk" is a homerun, and I give it 4.5 stars. Why not 5? There are too many songs in the collection. But only a few can be considered true "filler," which, for a 42-song collection is pretty good.


The first time I heard this CD, I thought someone just put Beck's "Stereopathetic Soul Manure" on. If you have that CD, you'll know what I mean when you hear Jack Logan's "Bulk." Lot's of demos, lots of poor production...but the songs and, most of all, the LYRICS stand out. There are too many great songs to name here. "Plate of Barbeque," "Monday Night" and "Shrunken Heads" are probably the best tracks, but there are so many strong titles. The songs tend to bounce from folk, to country, to dysfunctional late-80's college radio rock. But like Beck, Logan can take an average guitar riff and put the funniest, most honest, heart-felt lyrics to it and make it memorable. Some songs are just Jack and his guitar, others spotlight him with a full band. If you're into hanging out at a bar and listening to an ugly dude play his guitar and sing funny songs, this CD will be your anthem. And Amazon has it used for just 50 cents right now? Honestly--buy this ASAP.

4 out of 5 stars ah, jack.......2004-08-03

i've struggled a lot with this album. i really, really wanted to love it, and after listening to it a few times--not enough times, i admit--i think i'll have to settle for merely appreciating it. here's a guy from the athens, GA area--actually a small town nearby called winder--a guy who made music with his friends on the weekends or in the evenings, just for fun, just to pass the time. after a while, he fell in with the athens crowd and, as he is also an artist of sorts, he created a comic book about REM's peter buck being a superhero. this got him noticed by some people, and his home recordings made their way to mr. buck, who liked them and recommended them to minneapolis producer peter jesperson, best known for discovering the replacements. he contacted logan, logan sent him over 600 songs or something, and the two of them whittled this number to 42, which were spread over the two discs of jack logan's debut bulk. since then, he's released about an album a year, all of them good. a very steady songwriter. at any rate, this isn't an easy listen, it's everywhere all at once, and i do need to give it some more attention before i criticize it at all. what i can say is that the atmosphere of joking around, having fun, playing rock songs is very dominant here, and that alone makes it a worthy addition to any CD collection.

5 out of 5 stars The absurdity of it all.......2003-11-27

Nick Drake sang of the absurdity of life and Albert Camus wrote about it. Flannerey O'Connor took literary snap-shots of simple people with simple lives in the South. The Stones made a living off killer riffs and Neil Young brought us the muted agony of Tonight's the Night and frenzied emotion of Like a Hurricane. Jack Logan does all these things and he does them for one reason, it is what he likes to do.
I saw Jack Logan in Boston back in 1995. A friend and myself where the only people there to see him and know who he was. He introduced himself as being from London and proceeded to play about 2 hours worth of songs from Bulk (and drink about 10 Buds).
Female Jesus is a metaphor about people finding Salvation in different ways. Shrunken Head (Probably the most commercial song on the album) is a white trash anthem of growing up and dealing with tough family situations. Drunken Arms and New Used Car and a Plate of BBQ are classic Southern Country songs about longing and alcohol. Who else would mention Brunswick Stew in a song. Tex recalls Exile on Mainstreet Stones and Farsighted recalls early 80's Graham Parker.
Other stand-out songs include Escape Clause, 15 Years in Indiana, Chloroform (disturbing subject matter), Monday Night, Good Times/Bad Memories and Weatherman.
I own over 3000 CD's and can say without hesitation this is, along with Nick Drake's Pink Moon, my most listened to disc.
It is all things to people who love good old fashion rock and roll with a sense of humor and understanding of the daily toil that is life. Much like when Kurt Vonnegut inserts himself into his novel Breakfast of Champions, Jack Logan put himself into each song and gives us a view of life that is both humorous and depressing.

3 out of 5 stars Bulked Up.......2002-09-27

It's hard not to root for Jack Logan. He and his rural Georgia pals recorded hunderds of songs over a decade or so, never trying to secure a recording contract or expecting that the music would be heard by more than a handful of friends and associates. Logan had the fortune of befriending R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who introduced him to Replacements producer Peter Jesperson. Jesperson culled 42 selections from the huge "Bulk" of material Logan had already recorded and released it as a double CD.

Music Album:

  1. Hound of Ulster/Tall Scary Things ~ Tom Newman
  2. Morning Sun ~ Beautiful Girls
  3. H to He, Who Am the Only One ~ Van Der Graaf Generator
  4. The Ride ~ Seaworthy
  5. Evilution ~ Illwill
  6. Compendium - The Fontana Trinity ~ The Lilac Time
  7. Narcosis-More
  8. Weak Beats and Lame-Ass Rhymes ~ Two Dollar Guitar
  9. I Miss You ~ blink-182
  10. Vicious Delite ~ Vicious Delite

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Music Album

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Tambu ~ Cal Tjader with Charlie Byrd

Urban Renewal ~ Ramsey Lewis

The Last Trane ~ John Coltrane

Feelin' the Spirit ~ Canal Street Ragtimers

Cole Porter ~ Various Artists

Where Would I Be? ~ Jim Hall

Todos Em Um So ~ Grupo Kaya

Rompe la Rutina

Greatest Hits V.2 ~ Yellowfante

Reunion ~ Garolou