Mood Swings

Mood Swings Artist: Ben Vaughn
Label: Restless Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 018777272421
EAN: 0018777272421
ASIN: B000003BJO


Release Date: 1993-07-01

Mood Swings


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Tracks:

  1. Dressed In Black
  2. Doormat
  3. Growin' A Beard
  4. Too Sensitive For This World
  5. The Man Who Has Everything
  6. Daddy's Gone For Good
  7. She's Your Problem Now
  8. Rhythm Guitar
  9. El Rambler Dorado
  10. Beautiful Thing
  11. Jerry Lewis In France
  12. She's A Real Scream
  13. Shingaling With Me
  14. Big House With A Yard
  15. Lookin' For A 7-11
  16. I Dig Your Wig
  17. I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)
  18. M-Motor Vehicle
  19. My First Band
  20. Vibrato In The Grotto
  21. El Camino

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars good compilation.......2006-09-05

This is a fun cd by a very personal sounding roots rock artist.

The songs all have a sense of humor yet with a pretty raw, stripped down approach.

My favorite song is "my first band" which cleverly incorporates riffs from classic garage bands of the 60's.

Whats cool about this artist also harms him. This guy really marches to the beat of his own drum.

4 out of 5 stars hot licks.......2003-04-06

b.v. is great, too bad he is not better known. i am trying to find the album that has the 3rd rock from the sun title. what is it? cause that tune is the greatest.

4 out of 5 stars Heartfelt, intelligent pop with a clever, humorous edge.......2000-04-05

A really *stupendous* collection of Vaughn's recordings from '84-'92. Incredible pop music that blends elements of different genres (rock, folk, rockabilly, country, blues, surf, soul) effortlessly. Vaughn & company can really rock 'n' roll, in the best sense of that term... they remind me a bit of the Young Fresh Fellows, and the Morrells (now the Mummies). Lyrically, Vaughn is quite clever, but not in the cloying sort of novelty-song way that wears thin after a few listenings. Tracks range from the whimsical-in-a-Jonathan- Richman-sort-of-way ("Growing a Beard", "Rhythm Guitar") to the more sardonic ("Dressed in Black", "She's Your Problem Now"), to the sadly silly ("Too Sensitive For This World", "The Man Who Has Everything").

Guest musicians abound, but never intrude. Peter Holsapple (ex-dB's) can be heard playing mandolin, Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star, Panther Burns) sings some background vocals, as does John Hiatt.

I'd hesitate to call Vaughn a singer-songwriter, even though he wrote all but four tracks on this disc, and two of the remaining four he co-wrote. Roughly half the tracks on the disc are by The Ben Vaughn Combo, while the rest were recorded with a reasonably steady lineup and occasional guests.

A few of the tracks here are rerecordings of earlier songs, whose original production Vaughn was unhappy with. I'm not enough of a Vaughn-o-phile to know if this is a Good or a Bad Thing. Either way, the versions on this disc are superb!

4 out of 5 stars Best collection by the best artist from Camden NJ - ever!.......1999-07-13

I've been enjoying Ben Vaughn's music for almost 15 years now -- ever since a "Good Friday" gig at a tiny little bar on South Street in Philadelphia. Live, the original BVC made you remember why you enjoyed pop music and AM radio in the late 60s and early 70s -- especially when they dug deep into their amazing bags of covers to perform "96 Tears" or a trombone-enhanced, Beat-era reading of "Journey to the Center of Your Mind." Ben's encyclopedic knowledge of many genres of 60s pop and rock music is showcased throughout this compilation.

4 out of 5 stars

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