Re: Slapp Happy - Slapp Happy (a.k.a. Casablanca Moon) (1974)

by Guest Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:02 pm

This is rather lightweight isn't it?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:03 pm

Track 2 - Me and Parvati.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:03 pm

Pretty hard to pigeonhole this band.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:04 pm

Possibly the Manhattan Transfer of their day.

by Guest Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:04 pm

Man singing.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:04 pm

La-de-dah.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:04 pm

Still more hints of Kate Bush.

by Guest Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:04 pm

Sobbing with Lust.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:05 pm

Most of this tune only has one note.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:05 pm

These are all sort-of Brechtian vignettes.

by Guest Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:06 pm

This isn't a long album is it?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:06 pm

Track 2 - Half Way There.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:06 pm

Racist French accent.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:06 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:This isn't a long album is it?

114 minutes.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:06 pm

Recorded in the kitchen.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:07 pm

This really does sound like a collection of early Kate Bush outtakes.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:07 pm

This literally sounds like it was recorded in the kitchen.

by Guest Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:07 pm

In a 1974 review in Audio, Carl Anthony said Slapp Happy has "[s]ome of the most extraordinary lyrics I've heard in a long time", and when they are sung by Krause in her "[h]aunting" voice, the deceptively "normal" music is transformed into "something surreal and distant", "alien but strangely inviting". He described the recording of the album as "clean and open" with "clear and well projected" vocals. Anthony added that Slapp Happy "is no ordinary group" and opined that they are "going to be big – no question of it".

Her vocals are weak and this music is boring musical theatre.

by Nightjar Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:09 pm

Warbling.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:09 pm

Track 4 - Michelangelo.

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