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This is the unmoved mover

Raymond Violette | Lakemore, OH USA | 07/24/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"So I'm standin' there chainsawin' up this big ole maple that come down in the recent storms, miserable work, even fer a robust old soul like me. And on the radio comes this song, ``Sick Jones,'' by this band, Tin Huey, the likes of which I've never heard. Dropped my pullsaw and ran straight out to the record store, where I hadda wait six weeks while they ordered it up from some warehouse somewheres. Anyhoo: Having read some now, I realize it's kinda a cliche to say Tin Huey is hard to compare to anything, but I'd say this is the greatest marriage of 1940s country yodel and Slovenian post-disco since founding member Harvey Gold's pre-Huey band the Teabaggers. (They used to do a "War Pigs"/"Deliverance" medley, if you can believe it.) Anyhoo: This is transcendant music and take it from me it'll stop your chainsawin' right now and I mean right now."

The BEST record to come out in years!

Raymond Violette | 10/27/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I watched the movie a few years back and I've never forgotten the music. Truffaut couldn't have found a better score to underlie the intrigue and mystery. Songs like 'Wise Up' and 'Living With Strangers' still evoke the mood of conspiracy that made the movie and it's score unforgettable. Tin Huey is a band of young upper-class Bulgarian art students who mix an eclectic range of influences into a humorous pastiche of American Gothic Rock'n'Roll. Paying homage to their homeland, the Hueys append 'The Tin Huey Story' with the ghost-like singing their parents grew up with, after demonstrating that things will never be that simple any more. Their name comes from the description, in a Sophia newspaper, of a UFO encounter in a remote part of their country. The boys found profound amusement that the farmer who sighted the craft could think of no more lustrous metal than 'tin'. The songs 'Reliable Sources' and 'Seeing' are based on this story. Nothing about Western culture has escaped their notice, even hinting that the American obsession with Mayberry hides a deeper and more sinister meaning in 'Otis Says No' and 'Closet Bears'. And yet, they display a touching romantic side, as well. 'Lovely Little Thing' has always made me think of the Beach Boys meeting Leonard Cohen at the 7-11 just in time for the new doughnuts. Although I rated this disc with five stars, it deserves at least TEN. Buy it, it will 'Blow YOU Away'!"

Someone help me, I can't stop playing this thing!

Michael Heminger | Pardeeville, WI | 12/20/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I found this little gem in a local thrift store, not knowing that these art-school lifers had managed to cobble together a follow up to the before-its-time "Contents Dislodged During Shipment", released before I was in high school!! I expected some thinly worn imitations of these Devo-bretherens' quirky, jazz-tinged pre-80's glory, and was in for a shock!I tossed this in while I planned to do dishes or something, and soon found myself drawn into the room ("hey! This is a great record!!") reading the cover and wondering about these guys. Great vocal harmonies and layered tracks, fabulous interplay of instruments, and a panache of humor that doesn't obscure the musical integrity. The high quality and lack of a definitive categorizable sound makes this task difficult (just look at the range of adjectives in the other reviews!) but it stands as the perfect example of what it really is - a 'band' of guys who grew apart geographically, never really 'broke up', and worked/sat on these songs for as long as 20 years!! The 80's quirkiness is here "Otis Says No" and also a smooth 70's progressive/arty feel not unlike Todd Rundgren would be sounding had success escaped him. A dreamy quality pervades many of my favorite tracks, particularly "Reliable Sources" - the most accurate aural description of an extraterrestrial visit since Sonic Youth's "Disappearer". Evocative and seamless, "disinformation" plays like a fine film, sounding more modern (or even post-modern) than dated.I've been adrift on this wonderful ride for a month now (I think I've played it 50 times) and don't know if I'll ever tire of it. Essential, if you love good quality, imaginative, and well-played music."