Strange But True Yo La Tengo Jad Fair Half Japanese {NM - eBay (item 180428642521 end time Nov-09-09 20:35:03 PST)


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Artist:	Jad Fair	Release Date:	Oct 20, 1998
Format:	CD	Record Label:	Matador (record label)
UPC:	744861030928	Genre:	Rock
Duration:	Album or EP	Sub-Genre:	Alternative & Indie
Condition:	Brand new	Special Attributes:	--

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Track listing
1. Helpful Monkey Wallpapers Entire Home 2. Texas Man Abducted by Aliens For Outer Space Joy Ride 3. National Sports Association Hires Retired English Professor to Name New Wrestling Holds 4. Dedicated Thespian Has Teeth Pulled to Play Newborn Baby in High School Play 5. Three-Year-Old Genius Graduates High School at Top of Her Class 6. Embarrassed Teen Accidentally Uses Valuable Rare Postage Stamp 7. Principal Punishes Students With Bad Impressions and Tired Jokes 8. Retired Grocer Constructs Tiny Mount Rushmore Entirely of Cheese 9. X-Ray Reveals Doctor Left Wristwatch Inside Patient 10. Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Dessert by Mistake #2 11. Retired Woman Starts New Career in Monkey Fashions 12. Circus Strongman Runs For Pta President 13. High School Shop Class Constructs Bicycle Built For 26 14. Clumsy Grandmother Serves Delicious Dessert by Mistake #1 15. Ohio Town Saved From Killer Bees by Hungry Vampire Bats 16. Nevada Man Invents Piano With 21 Extra Keys 17. Clever Chemist Makes Chewing Gum From Soap 18. Minnesota Man Claims Monkey Bowled Perfect Game 19. Ingenious Scientist Invents Car of the Future 20. Car Gears Stick in Reverse, Daring Driver Crosses Town Backwards 21. Shocking Fashion Statement Terrorizes Town 22. Feisty Millionaire Fills Potholes With Hundred-Dollar Bills
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Distributor:	Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording type:	Studio
Recording mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album notes
Jad Fair: David Fair. Yo La Tengo: Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, James McNew. Engineers inlclude: Fred Brockman. Recorded on June 21, 1994 and August 30, 1996. The pairing of Half Japanese's Jad Fair with Hoboken's finest rock trio is a match made in indie rock heaven. With his brother David (the lyric-writing half of Half Japanese), Jad has been mining the outer borders of post-punk for the better part of twenty years, home-recording everything from free-jazz-inspired noise to lo-fi rock. Informed absurdists like the Fairs have always been an inspiration for Yo La Tengo. So over the course of two sessions in the past four years, inspiration became collaboration. Armed with David's lyrics--cribbed from articles of the more surrealist supermarket tabloids--and with Yo La's gift for improvisation, the two parties begat STRANGE BUT TRUE. As may be expected with spur-of-the-moment projects, the quality ranges from the inspired to the tossed-off. Ira Kaplan's guitar is ever present, creating a thorny distraction in case the flood of words subsides. The rockers allow the rhythm section to put the throttle down while Jad rants to keep up. On quieter tracks, the rhythm section plinks and planks, and Jad becomes a campfire storyteller. Either way, STRANGE BUT TRUE is full of sublime Daniel Johnston-type moments, and if those are welcome in your heart, then this album should be too.
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...His plaintive delivery of lyrics David `borrowed' from tabloid headlines is strangely affecting--but instead of the grating tonelessness of his old band, Fair is backed by the supple chops of Yo La Tengo, who smooth his rough edges without losing their peculiar charms... - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (10/23/1998)

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