Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Shitbag 9 2. Bring Your Lovin' Back Here 3. Emergency Surgery - (remix) 4. Hit on the Head 5. Flavors 6. 78 Stone Shuffle 7. We Haven't Turned Around - (X-Ray) 8. Buena Vista 9. Shitbag 10. Steve Mccroski - (BBC session) 11. Wharf Me 12. High on Liquid Skin 13. Rosemary - (BBC session) 14. Cowboy Song, The 15. Getting Better
DISC 2: MACHISMO EP: 1. Machismo 2. Do's and Don'ts 3. Touchin' Up 4. Waster 5. Dajon Song, The
| Details | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes ABANDONED SHOPPING TROLLEY HOTLINE is a compilation of rarities and B-sides. Initial pressings are packaged with the MACHISMO EP. Gomez: Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell, Olly Peacock. Additional personnel: James Lee (vocals); Dave Tetley, Steve Fellows (guitar); 78 Stone Shuffle, Steve McCroski, Rosemary, Dajon Everett. An engaging collection of outtakes and rarities. The group's sonic template is the same as on their two previous albums; they're still exploring an askew mix of Southern blues refracted through a Beefheartian prism, various indigenous folk styles ("Flavors" could be acid-bossa nova), and the post-modern textures of Beck. The songs here, however, are not always completely realized--some of them, like the opening "Shitbag 9," are essentially aural doodles--but the lack of polish is rather appealing most of the time. There's an astonishing bluesy version of the Beatles' "Getting Better" that shouldn't work, but does, and triumphantly at that. Early versions of the album are packaged with a five-track EP of newer, slicker, material, including the epic psychedelia of "The Dijon Song."
Editorial Reviews 4 stars out of 5 - ...A record that sets a seal on the past while simultaneously whetting the appetite fo the future:cover version EPs, solo records, triple live concept albums et al. Q (11/01/2000)
...[A] ragbag of gleeful experiments....The best tracks...have less fussy embroidery, evidencing a wiser, more commercially-sustainable outfit... Mojo (10/01/2000)
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...A gracefully autonomous, inventively cohesive collection. Superfans 'will' beam... Melody Maker (10/03/2000)
...Proves these precocious Brits' junk is better than most bands A-list stuff....unmistakable soul-adelic undertow carries you through... - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (11/03/2000)
...A mad chemistry mixing the Britpop tradition of the Beatles with the quirky lyricism of Steely Dan and the sensuous sweeping jam-band blues of the Allman Brothers... CMJ (12/01/2000)
...Unabashedly and saturatingly commercial, yes - but oddly and perversely satisfying, too. Magnet (01/01/2001)
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