Electric Shocks (Expanded Edition) [Remastered]
Download links and information about Electric Shocks (Expanded Edition) [Remastered] by Roger Ruskin Spear. This album was released in 1972 and it belongs to Pop, Humor genres. It contains 13 tracks with total duration of 48:43 minutes.
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| Artist: | Roger Ruskin Spear |
| Release date: | 1972 |
| Genre: | Pop, Humor |
| Tracks: | 13 |
| Duration: | 48:43 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | All By Yourself in the Moonlight (2014 Remastered Version) | 5:29 |
| 2. | I'm a Fly (2014 Remastered Version) | 2:58 |
| 3. | Mattress Man (2014 Remastered Version) | 5:20 |
| 4. | Blue Baboon (Or I Know a Rhino) [2014 Remastered Version] | 5:15 |
| 5. | The Liberty Laughing Song (2014 Remastered Version) | 4:04 |
| 6. | Doctor Rock (2014 Remastered Version) | 4:10 |
| 7. | Patrick Moore (2014 Remastered Version) | 4:42 |
| 8. | Make Yourself a Happiness Pie (2014 Remastered Version) | 3:30 |
| 9. | Living Doll (2014 Remastered Version) | 2:24 |
| 10. | Trouser Freak (2014 Remastered Version) | 2:52 |
| 11. | Trouser Press (2014 Remastered Version) | 3:02 |
| 12. | Release Me (2014 Remastered Version) | 2:52 |
| 13. | Drop Out (2014 Remastered Version) | 2:05 |
Details
[Edit]Although Spear's solo album was reasonably witty, it often sounded like a sketchbook for Bonzo Dog Band ideas that would have been far better if they had been filled out to something more substantial, perhaps with the aid of his ex-bandmates. If you like the Bonzos a lot, you will appreciate the humor at work here, which simultaneously mocks and pays homage to music hall-type styles, irreverently mixing in modern sound effects, rock instruments, and weird tongue-in-cheek lyrics. It's best on the opening "All By Yourself in the Moonlight," where some old coot harmlessly warbling away on an old standard suffers the protracted indignity of hard-rock instruments invading his tune. Also give credit to Spear for hijacking passages from Joe Meek's "Telstar" in "Patrick Moore," long before it was chic to dig Meek. A 1998 CD reissue on DJC adds four bonus tracks from the Rebel Trouser EP.