Surveying the Damage

Surveying the Damage Artist: Outnumbered
Label: Parasol Records
Category: Music


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


UPC: 795306103622
EAN: 0795306103622
ASIN: B00000DAIJ


Release Date: 1999-05-11

Surveying the Damage


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Tracks:

  1. I Feel So Sorry Now
  2. You Need A Babysitter
  3. The Other Way Around
  4. Inspiration
  5. Don't You Feel it
  6. Sit With Me In The Dark
  7. One Desperate Moment
  8. Cover Me With Flowers
  9. Why Are All The Good People Going Crazy
  10. Boy On A Roof
  11. Away From Here
  12. Long Long Gone
  13. Passive Voice
  14. She's Gonna Take It Out On Me
  15. I Fooled You Too
  16. Ruthless
  17. Tell Me What's Wrong
  18. Waste Time
  19. Love Is The Reward
  20. Legend Of The West
  21. Betrayed By The Ending
  22. Leaving Town

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars dark and lovely.......2000-07-28

This CD samples the work of Jon Ginoli's pre-Pansy Division band the Outnumbered who made three fine independent pop albums (two on Homestead)in the mid '80s. For those familar with Jon's work in his infamous openly gay pop-punk band, this disc will be a fascinating and enjoyable look at his early days.

Musical reference points for the Outnumbered would include the Bongos, Husker Du and early R.E.M. The songs are simple and direct, both musically and lyrically. Their earlier work was bright, realistic and vaguely hopeful, like the beautiful and disarming "Sit With Me In The Dark". Elsewhere, the amusing country-rock of "You Need A Babysitter" and jangle-pop confections like Paul Bundin's "Inspiration" and Ginoli's "I Feel So Sorry Now" abound. Later tracks unleash a storm of angst, frustration (sexual and otherwise) and sadness, as in the Smithereens-like "Boy On A Roof", the feminist parable "Passive Voice", and in probably the Outnumbered's best song, the devastatingly vicious character sketch "Wasted Time".

The Outnumbered's music is very comparable to the straighter (ahem), more serious side of Pansy Division songs like "Boyfriend Wanted", "Don't Be So Sure" and much of Absurd Pop Song Romance. In fact, the PD songs "Not Enough Of You To Go Around" and "I Really Wanted You" were first recorded as Outnumbered songs on their second and third albums, though sadly, neither are included here. Still, what is here is pretty damn great.

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  1. Davnet ~ Damhnait Doyle
  2. River of Dreams
  3. Inside ~ Parmalee
  4. Smoke & Fire ~ Smoke & Fire
  5. Thunderhawks ~ Thunderhawks
  6. Chori's Bundle ~ James Orr Complex
  7. Across the Sea: a Tribute to Weezer ~ Various Artists
  8. Surrender ~ Elvis Presley
  9. The Owl and the Tree ~ Mother Gong With Daevid Allen
  10. Love Songs ~ Roy Orbison

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Amaryllis ~ Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian

New Kingdom ~ Roy Campbell

Fabulous Fifties ~ Miles Davis

In Every Moment ~ Nelson Rangell

Storyteller

Trégua ~ Chico Saraiva

Petites Fetes Entre Amis ~ Michel Fugain

Serie 100 Anos De Musica ~ Joao Bosco

Rembetika: Talking to Charos (Urban Greek Music) ~ Various Artists

Rakugo Meijinkai V.28: Kokontei 20 ~ Shincho Kokontei