oooooo _ _ _    I like this CRAZY music !     :-D
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      artist:   v/a
       title:   Only in America
      origin:   USA
        type:   CD
       label:   Arf! Arf! AA-049
       price:   $14
distribution:   Arf! Arf!, PO Box 465, Middleborough, MA 02346-0465, USA
        year:   1995
       genre:   novelty, "incredibly strange music"
    duration:   78:06 (now that's waht I call value for money!)

  track list:
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 The Laughing Record #1 (the Okeh Laughing Record)
 Jon Appleton            Chef d'Oeuvre
 Tony Burello            There's a new sound
 Kim Fowley              Young America saturday night
 Terry Teene             Curse of the hearse
 The Wicked              The Spider & The Fly
 Electric Experience     Theme
 Teenage Rebellion soundtrack: Pot Party/ Call girl/ The gay teenager
 Stu Mitchell            Acid
 Invisible Burgundy Bullfrog: Batman rides again
 The Intimates           I've got a tiger in my tank
 Individuals             Jungle Superman
 Forbidden Five          Enchanted Farm
 Forbidden Five          R.F.D. Rangoon
 Phoenix Trolley         Three part invention (too many trees in the forest)
 Randy and the Rest      The vacuum
 Endless Pulse           Nowhere chick
 Cosmic Rock Show        Rising sun
 Mr Love                 Ease the pain
 New Bangs               Go go Kitty
 Time Masheen            Big black bird
 Herter's crow calling record
 The Beagles             Let's all sing like the birdies song
 The Shaggs              My pal fool foot (live)
 Mysterious Clown        Mysterious clown
 Oshun                   Rattle of life
 The Far-Out, Underground Acid Rock Feet of Harry Zonk: For what it's worth
 David Arvedon           Buckets of water

This CD has a sticker with "100% pure incredibly strange music" on it, so
it *has* to be good. Well, it completely lives up to it's expectations:
it's great!
This CD proves that there isn't always a clear boundary between novelty and
so-called "incredibly strange music". Two tracks (# 1 & 3) are well know
amongst Dr. demento fans, because they appeared previously on Dr. D/Rhino
compilations.
Al of this "Only in America" CD is very funny and very weird; this is the menu:

a man and a woman laughing themselves to pieces;
drug songs;
a horribly demented song about the sounds made by worms;
a completely flipped and perverted Kim Fowley;
hair-raising female shrieks and more horror;
out-of tune teen trash;
an outlandish musique-concrete version of an old Chef Boy-Ar-Dee jingle;
exploitation tracks about teen drug use, prostitution and homosexuality;
a Batman with a Dixie tongue;
a Lou Reed song????...;
jungle sound effects and singing dogs;
demented psychedelica;
garage-rock with a solo on... a vacuum cleaner;
disturbed soul music;
Stan Freberg's John & Marsha on dope;
a crow-calling instructional record...which erupts into gunfire;
an unreleased live version of a Shags song;
parodies of Martin Denny with barnyard-animal noises
        (read about it in ISM vol.1 page 19)
        (BTW: if you like your music stuffed with animal noises,
        check out the new Rhino CD "Barnyard beat")
and... tap dancing;

Doesn't this sound very yummy yummy?
"ONLY IN AMERICA"... ain't that a truth: only in the USA could all this
stupid and twisted stuff have seen the light of day..
This crazy CD has been compiled by Eric "Space Negro" Lindgren for his own
label, and I do hope that he has more of this delicious stuff for a next
volume (which, IMHO,  should include The Jefferson Handkerchief's "I'm
allergic to flowers"). Go for it, you won't be disapointed!
While you're ordering this goodie, you'd better also buy the greatest and
most weird Xmas CD of all time: "The dark side of the Xmas tree"
(Performance  393CD, also distributed by Arf! Arf!), which has, amongst
others, 16 completely insane parodies of all the Xmas classics by The
Jethros.


Greatings from Johan
               johan.devis@ping.be          (home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium)