EP (see below) so I picked up this Black Panties single too, just because. First time on vinyl for all of these tracks, and better late than never!įigured I’d enjoy some extra-curricular activities while ordering the new C.C.T.V. He’ll do multiple vocal tracks just to stage an argument with himself, write a love song to a dog and pepper it with canned dog-bark sound effects, and while I probably just lost a lot of you on the idea of checking this out because of that (and the Billy Joel comparison), his unbridled corniness is the sort of thing I wish to celebrate, not dismiss. Stevie Moore before any of them started making music. Anyway, this collection is way more fun than I expected – it’s goofy, quirky, piano-driven and quickly memorable, somehow prophesizing the arrival of Billy Joel, DEVO, KISS and R. Dave Arvedon, it feels so right! I initially assumed he was some famously obscure punk rocker who put some solo tunes together on the side, but upon further investigation that’s not quite the case – he was in a group called The Psychopaths who released one 7″ way back in 1967, and has been doing his own music ever since, continuing up until the present day, complete with a personal website that would make Geocities proud. It seems wrong, listening to the second volume of a best-of collection without ever experiencing the first, but in the case of Mr. Dave Arvedon The Best Of Dave Arvedon Vol.
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