Patrick Sky - Songs That Made America Famous (1973)
01. Fight for Liberation
02. Radcliffe Highway
03. Vatican Caskets
04. Child Molesting Blues
05. Okie
06. Under All Flags
07. Luang Prabang
08. Our Baby Died
09. Ramblin' Hunchback
10. Bake Dat Chicken Pie
11. Rock Star
12. The Pope
13. Yonkers Girl
14. H. Bromovitz
Completely new to me Bob Mac, thanks for the intro and the story!
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy it Little Bill, it's a fun album actually.
Deletelooks interesting Bob will take a listen thanks Reb
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ReplyDeleteFirstly thanks for your superb ongoing uploads. When I go to "Home", I am shown the top item as the Patrick Sky CD.
Was I dreaming when I thought I saw later items or is that the up to date page? Trevor - Melbourne.
Hi Trevor, I posted 3 albums, one after the other, 2 compilations, and the Patrick Sky LP. As the Sky LP was the last one I posted it takes the top position. But I'll post some more compilations later today and that will bump the Sky LP down.
DeleteI did a double-take upon seeing you'd featured this Patrick Sky record, which I already have in both vinyl and digital form. I completely understand why you'd use the term "mind boggling" in connection with at least some of the songs. Even in the mid-eighties or so, when I first heard this stuff (and at a time when a lot of the punk/post-punk I was listening to was designed to seem iconoclastic, even offensive) I was surprised to encounter the -- well, it was way beyond mere insouciance, more like deliberate obnoxiousness at issue in "Child Molesting Blues" and "Bake Dat Chicken Pie." But "Ramblin' Hunchback," which I think of as a little pastiche of several Americana-related genres all at once, remains one of my favorite songs. And, more generally, the album as a whole strikes me as a masterpiece of, let's say, "protest music of sorts."
ReplyDeleteHi Crab Devil, yep it's a strange album, a deliberate over the top masterpiece. As I said above I'll now be posting some albums, not just my compilations, but I'll be focusing on weird things, and forgotten masterpieces.
DeleteSorry to be a pain in the ass, but posting official full length albums now makes this blog less interesting to me. Anyways, thanks for sharing ... even though I`m not downloading this one.
ReplyDeleteI can't see how it makes the blog less interesting Maren, nothing has changed, the same compilations will continue, I'm just expanding a bit, offering some more choices. As for not downloading this, I don't expect anyone to d/l everything, just d/l what you want, and pass on what you don't want.
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