Skip Heller - Couch Los Angeles (11 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Skip Heller
Couch Los Angeles
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Couch, Los Angeles
2. Spy Perfume
3. Jelly
4. Bad Motel Room - Skip Heller, Mahler, Gustav
5. Nun Seh Ich Woll (From Gustav Mahler's Die Kindertotenlieder)
6. The Raymond Scott Memorial Fake 78
7. Joey's After Dark
8. Uri, Spiel Es Noch Amol
9. Little Rootie Tootie - Skip Heller, Monk, Thelonious
10. In a Sentimental Mood - Skip Heller, Ellington, Duke
11. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance - Skip Heller, Zappa, Frank

CD Details

All Artists: Skip Heller
Title: Couch Los Angeles
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mouthpiece Records
Original Release Date: 6/29/1999
Re-Release Date: 7/9/2002
Genres: Country, Alternative Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Roadhouse Country, Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Singer-Songwriters
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 078200602720

CD Reviews

Eccentric, but very friendly

11/01/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Skip Heller is one of those guys who pops up on so many kinds of records that it is hard to know what he "really" does. This record shows that it is avant-garde lounge music. But instead of it being vapid, his lounge has real substance. Instead of it being aggressively dissonant, his avant-garde is full of fast humor. This is like cartoon music the same way Wallace & Grommit is a cartoon. The press compares him to Zappa very often, and this is right except for Heller is a lot less cynical. COUCH takes lounge and makes it something other than retro kitsch."