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TIM CURRY

READ MY LIPS
Label BAD REPUTATION
Catalog BAD170701
Format CD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2017-08-25
Description
First time on CD, fully remastered, 2 bonus tracks, notebook with photos and lyrics. The undisputed star of the Rocky Horror Picture Show debut A&M album from 1978. Working closely with ace producer Bob Ezrin and Ezrin’s partner Michael Kamen , Curry created what amounted to a potent sendup of nearly every major musical style of the last 50-odd years, a compelling, musically valid, wonderfully funny rich tour de force that added another dimension to his already extensive creative repertoire. Musicians included Richard Wagner, John Tropea and Robin Miller (guitars), Philly International drummer Charles Collins and Bob Babbitt- the leading studio bass player on both coasts. Guest artists included Nils Lofgren, fiddle-player extraordinaire Joe Venuit and the entire bagpipe and drum regimen of Toronto’s 48th Highlanders. From the heraldic magnificence of Scottish bagpipes on the epic Wake Nicodemus. an old folk song given a zesty rock arrangement, to the reggae kicker of the Beatles “I Will, right through to the funky rock-cum-30’s reading of Irving Berlin‘s Harlem On My Mind ,Tim manages to cover iust about every musical waterfront. (Do The) Brontosaurus is a delicious sendup of the heavy métal rockers, and on “Sloe Gin he takes on the blues. “Birds of a Feather conveys an ambiguous sexual message in a quasi—sleazy sendup that gives Afro/ Latin rock a run for the money. Joni Mitchell‘s “All I Want is given a total facelift. The classic Anyone Who Had A Heart is rendered with Wagnerian bravado that tugs at your heart while it tickles your funny bone. And it all works, both as solid music and as light, right-on-target humour. Or as Tim put it: It covers a lot of bases, it’s relentless rock, and it’s a pretty pushy album.
tracklisting
1. Birds Of Feather
2. Wake Nicomedus
3. I Will
4. Brontosaurus
5. Alan
6. All I Want
7. Sloe Gin
8. Harlem On My Mind
9. Anyone Who Had A Heart
- Bonus Tracks
10. Just Thourteen
11. Baby Love
 

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