Retro Rocket Back to Earth/The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Rides Again

Retro Rocket Back to Earth/The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Rides Again Artist: Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Label: New Rose
Category: Music


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


UPC: 053436445822
EAN: 0053436445822
ASIN: B000001Q5E


Release Date: 1996-08-13

Retro Rocket Back to Earth/The Legendary Stardust Cowboy Rides Again


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Tracks:

  1. Bladerunner
  2. Linda
  3. Geiger Counter
  4. Westward Creek
  5. Stealth Cowboy
  6. Earthquake
  7. Credit Card Blues
  8. I Hate CDS
  9. There'll Be Hot Coffee
  10. Magic in Your Eyes
  11. Egyptian Maiden
  12. Linda (Reprise)

Tracks:

  1. Relaxation
  2. Ride a Tractor
  3. Someone Took the Yellow from My Egg
  4. Pahrump
  5. World's Worst Titles
  6. Red Telephone
  7. Idiots Running Sideways
  8. Arise!
  9. Red Eyes
  10. Saturn
  11. Rubber Hits the Road
  12. I Love My Bed
  13. New Jersey Turnpike

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "World's Worst Titles".......2006-01-29

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (or simply "Ledge") is one of the most amazing singers ever recorded professionally. I have been a fan ever since hearing him belt out his classic "Paralyzed" years ago. This is a two CD set featuring 25 songs by the Ledge. They are all manic or at the very least strange. Most are amusingly listenable although I did not find the power ballad (of sorts) "Linda" very palatable for some reason.

I found the extremely jarring and disjointed "Geiger Counter" and "Egyptian Maiden" to be among the most entertaining tracks, while I found the spoken word (song-poem?) "Someone Took The Yellow From My Egg" to be perhaps the strangest thing I have ever heard on a commercially released CD (that is not to say it's good, it is one of the less inspired songs on the set, actually, but it is very peculiar.) My favorite song on the CD has to be "World's Worst Titles" a song of song titles too bad or strange for even the Ledge to use (for example, "My Baby is Shaped Like an Ironing Board"). For pure surrealism set to music, look no further.

These recordings will never have wide commercial appeal, but like all good outsider music, that inherently is their appeal. I recommend this CD set to anyone who wants to broaden their musical horizons beyond the mundane.

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