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Track Listing
1. Power of Pussy, The
2. Great Radio
3. What If?
4. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
5. Chicken Pussy
6. White Rental Car Blues
7. Nick Cave Dolls
8. Bedazzled
9. Obscene and Pornographic Art
10. Connie
11. What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?
12. I Need a New Tape
13. Women Tied up in Knots
14. Junior
15. Mystery Hole
16. Time Is Coming
17. Folk Song
Album Notes
Bongwater: Ann Magnuson, Kramer (vocals); Dave Rick (guitar); David Licht (percussion).
Additional personnel: Fred Schneider (vocals); Peter Stampfel (banjo).
Recording information: Noise Studios, New York, New York (1990).
Chances are good that you have never heard anything quite like the music of this band. Featuring the varied talents of musician/producer Kramer and actress, performance artist, and writer Ann Magnuson, Bongwater synthesizes rock, folk idioms, '60s psychedelia, and an unerring hipster sensibility into a wild, postmodern, tongue-in-cheek art project. Magnuson and Kramer turn their amused, critical eyes to the matter of political correctness ("Women Tied Up In Knots"), folk music ("Folk Song"), and, on the disc's finest cut, "Obscene and Pornographic Art," matters of topical concern.
Magnuson's ambling narratives on such tracks as "Chicken Pussy" and "Nick Cave Dolls" are part dream-journal and part social satire. She adopts personae and roles while passing the whole act off as a stand-up comedy routine. While Kramer's genre-splicing recombinant aesthetic may test the patience of "serious" music lovers, Bongwater's musicians would be the first to deprecate themselves. It is exactly this sense of humor, which manages to be outrageous while still being conscientious, clever without being too cute, and goofy but intelligent, that makes this band such a delight. Bongwater is the ultimate political, literary, style-melting joke- rock art project, and THE POWER OF PUSSY is the duo's finest offering.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - There's humour here, but also a working heart.
3 stars out of 5 - Genius art rock duo's penultimate release...
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