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Track Listing
1. Here Comes the Bride
2. Vampires in the Sun
3. Waiting For the Blow
4. Man, The
5. Gone Mad
6. Wow
7. Siren Dress
8. Gorilla Boy
9. Key to the Kingdom
10. Fisherman's Delight
11. Bigger I Laugh the Harder I Cry, The
12. Dodging Assassins
13. Diamond
14. Tomorrow Can Pay the Rent
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Spin Doctors: Chris Barron (vocals, guitar); Ivan Neville (vocals, keyboards); Aaron Comess (guitar, accordion, keyboards, bass, drums); Eran Tabib (guitar).
Additional personnel: Judith Tsui (cello); Arnie Lawrence (saxophone); Todd Horton (trumpet); Andrew Lippman (trombone); Mark White (bass); Joe Bonadio (tambourine, hand drum); Catherine Russell, Lani Groves (background vocals).
Producers: Aaron Comess, Peter Denenberg, Spin Doctors.
Recorded at His House Studios, New York, New York and Acme Studios, Mamaronek, New York.
The Spin Doctors' career is an excellent example of the music industry's fickleness. After selling millions of albums and dominating the radio in the mid-'90s, a couple of non-million sellers was all it took to get the band dropped from its label and dumped into the where-are-they-now bin. Not content to leave it at that, the band regrouped for a new album on a new label. The lineup on HERE COMES THE BRIDE is significantly altered. While scatting neo-hippie Chris Barron remains the front man, the lion's share of the instrumental chores are handled by Aaron Comess, who previously limited his talents to the drums.
Though there's a fair amount of the band's trademark pop-funk, there are other influences at work. "The Man" sports a hip-hop production complete with retro analog synth and looped-sounding beats. The sprightly "Wow" adopts a gentle reggae feel. On several tunes, the guitar attack is harder and less fluid than on the band's early recordings. All the changes displayed on this disc make it plain that the Spin Doctors are a band more concerned with musical development than the maintenance of fame.
Industry Reviews
...Dipping deeply into hip-hop and Latin grooves, the Docs once again prove that their strength is loose-limbed funk... - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (06/04/1999)
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