Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room

Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room Artist: Martin Mull
Label: Capricorn / Umgd
Category: Music


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


UPC: 731455800128
EAN: 0731455800128
ASIN: B0000064TY


Release Date: 1998-03-17

Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room


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Tracks:

  1. Introduction And Theme To Margie The Midget
  2. Dueling Tubas
  3. A Simple Carpenter
  4. Licks Off Of Records
  5. Return Of The Big Bands
  6. 2001 Polka
  7. Straight Talk About The Blues
  8. Ukulele Blues
  9. A Tribute To Bert Parks
  10. Billy One-Eye
  11. Intermission
  12. A Girl Your Size (How Could I Not Miss)
  13. Martin, Leon, Elton And John
  14. My Wife
  15. Puis-Je Emprunter Votre Cuillere?
  16. Ah, France
  17. Something
  18. The Nothing
  19. Phone Call
  20. In The Eyes Of My Dog

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Straight Talk About the Blues.......2006-05-23

"The blues started in the delta region of Louisiana," Martin Mull teaches us on this all-time great album.

Now, bear in mind that this album largely sold on the word of mouth associated with the air play that "Dueling Tubas" got. I bought the CD because of that cut. But, in all truth, it's "Straight Talk About the Blues" that makes the album itself.

That, and "Licks off of Records" helps us all understand what popular music is all about.

But my real question is, who is the lady with the distinctive laugh in the audience to this performance, and in what way, exactly, is she related by blood or marriage to Martin Mull??

4 out of 5 stars Good, Funny CD - But the Price?.......2006-05-09

A fine, funny Mull CD, not as good as "Everyone I've Ever Loved," but a good approximation of one of his live shows. Clever, dry humor with some great bits - Dueling Tubas, Ukelele Blues -- and funny commentary in between. If you like Mull chances are you'll like this. But beware the price on used versions. This is currently availabe (May 2006) for download on iTunes -- which is a lot cheaper than the $70 I've seen elsewhere. Shop around before paying scalper rates.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Martin Mull.......2002-05-28

If you wondered how Martin Mull's act sounded like when he was on the road, this is it. Just picture him in the middle of the stage, sitting in an armchair very much like the one on the cover. A tacky little lamp sits on the rickety table at his elbow.

MM runs the gamut here, from "Dueling Tubas" to a bottle-neck blues parody played on a ukelele. And, while his musical style may change from song to song, his patter does not.

He spends almost as much time introducing the songs as he does in the playing of them. And, in doing so, he adopts the "too hip for this room" style that he used on his talk show parodies in the mid 70s and has since been adopted by David Letterman.

Very funny stuff, played by a very talented musician.

3 out of 5 stars Funny, but dated.......2000-06-07

First of all, let me correct something. Unlike what the first reviewer here said, "Fabulous Furniture" is Mull's SECOND album, not the first. ("Martin Mull," his first album, has never been released on CD in its original form--too bad.)

That said, this album is funny and shows off Mull in his best light--live. Unfortunately, many of the jokes (about the Carpenters and Elton John, for example) are quite dated and face it, if you weren't there, you aren't gonna find them funny.

Still, there are some neat things here: Licks off of Records, Ukelele Blues, and Dueling Tubas, which I THINK most people will still get a kick out of, even if you weren't born yet when "Dueling Banjos" was an unlikely hit.

If you like this, pick up Mull's "Mulling it Over" collection and you'll have pretty much everything you'll ever need by Mr. Mull (unless you thought that "Men Men Men" thing was funny).

5 out of 5 stars

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