Moonhead

Moonhead Artist: Thin White Rope
Label: Frontier Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 018663102023
EAN: 0018663102023
ASIN: B000003ST6


Release Date: 1993-09-06

Moonhead


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Tracks:

  1. Not Your Fault
  2. Wire Animals
  3. Thing
  4. Moonhead
  5. Wet Heart
  6. Mother
  7. Come Around
  8. If Those Tears
  9. Crawl Piss Freeze
  10. Waking Up
  11. Valley Of The Bones
  12. Atomic Imagery
  13. Ain't That Lovin' You Baby
  14. Take It Home (Long Version)

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  1. In the Spanish Cave
  2. Exploring the Axis
  3. Sack Full of Silver
  4. The One That Got Away
  5. The Ruby Sea

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A true masterpiece among all the indies........2005-07-26

There was a brief time back in '87-'88, when all seemed right with the sounds coming out of boomboxes and walkman headphones. It was the time of Sonic Youth in the East, Husker Du in the Midwest, and this band, Thin White Rope on the Pacific. They each came out with pinnacle achievements, around this era, and Thin White Rope's was Moonhead. I am not going to bore with comparisons to this or that, just know if you are taking the time to read reviews and listen to samples, then buy the Lp and you won't be dissappointed. That's a promise! I bought my wax copy nearly twenty years ago now and it remains near the top of my voluminous Lp stack.

5 out of 5 stars creepy yet compelling.......2003-01-06

Imagine a country-rock band of ex-junkies from a ghost town run by William Burroughs, and you begin to get the idea of what this band sounds like. Call it-- American Goth? The vocals sound like a cleaner, spookier Tom Waits, and the spare echo-y sound evokes the dark side of town, full of dead end streets and boarded-up storefronts. The perfect soundtrack for driving down a desert highway at 3AM, in a vain attempt to escape the trail of blood and money in the sleazy motel room behind you.

5 out of 5 stars The band that got away..........2002-08-23

I could go on for hours about Thin White Rope, but I think I can make my point best by keeping it simple. I own thousands of albums by Thousands of bands, and most in my top 20 are Thin White Rope... The song "Thing" is one of the saddest, most moving songs ever written. If you like Guitar Rock with brains and passion, this is the band. The way I see it, if TWR never existed, and this album came out today, they would be the talk of the "Indie Rock" world, dominating the likes of Moonie Suzuki, the Hives and the Strokes. Do your self a favor, buy this one...

5 out of 5 stars The great unsung guitar band of the 80's.......2001-02-16

Thin White Rope is one of the bands that loves to defy categorization. The best I can do is "Psychedelic western death rock". Breaking this down, the "phsychedelic" part is the manic, dual guitar drones that drive this music, as well as the trippy lyrics. Some people call the sound "country", but this is misleading. The better term is "Western". This sounds like it could be the soundtrack to a whacked out Tex-Mex gun-slinging cowboy movie. The "Death" part refers to the very dark lyrics, but dark like Dr. Strangelove rather than Joy Division...there's some very funny stuff here. And the "Rock" part needs no explanation...these guys rock loud, heavy and hard. The sound is huge...big, big, big. And beautiful.

My favorite song on this album is the title track: a long, rambling guitar driven opus that builds from an introspective beginning and finally explodes into a frantic climax. The guitar work of this band is beyond comparison, although Television is a good starting point. These guys know how to build tension better than any band I've heard.

Guy's voice also defy's description, but try to imagine a beer-soaked Roger Daltrey with a mouthful of marbles and...uh...you still can't imagine it! I'll try again...how about Johnny Cash on Helium singing through a burlap bag...nah. Hmm. A Roy Orbison 45 rpm record played back at 33? Nope. All I can definitively say is that his voice is a perfect match to the music.

Music Album:

  1. Tried + True ~ Tinfed
  2. Extended Versions (Live) ~ Mountain
  3. Ragpicker's Dream ~ Mark Knopfler
  4. Monster Show ~ Lordi
  5. You Come Through ~ PJ Harvey
  6. Secada ~ Jon Secada
  7. Star Academie 2004 ~ Various Artists
  8. What Goes Up Might Come ~ David Gunson
  9. Too Late The Hero ~ John Entwistle
  10. Thirteen Masks ~ Jarboe

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Listen to the Band ~ Orrin Evans

Let It Flow 2000 ~ Calvin Edwards

Unique ~ Thelonious Monk

Midnight Blues ~ Coleman Hawkins

Reinhardt & Christian: Members Edition ~ Django Reinhardt & Charlie Christian

Sketches of Spain/In a Silent Way ~ Miles Davis

Radio Cuba, Vol. 1 ~ Various Artists

En Mexico ~ Victor Jara

Alles...Und Noch Mehr ~ Ibo

Song of the Sun ~ Irkutsk City Folk Drama Theatre