Funny Valentine
Funny Valentine | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1998 | |||
Recorded | January 1998 | |||
Studio | Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Experimental rock | |||
Length | 61:17 | |||
Label | Tzadik (United States) | |||
Producer | Massacre | |||
Massacre chronology | ||||
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Funny Valentine is a studio album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre. The line-up for this album featured Fred Frith (guitar), Bill Laswell (bass guitar) and Charles Hayward (drums), with Hayward having replaced Fred Maher, who played drums on their first album, Killing Time (1981).
Funny Valentine was recorded at Laswell's studio, Orange Music, in West Orange, New Jersey in January 1998.[1]
Reception[]
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
In a review at AllMusic, Rick Anderson stated that Funny Valentine is a little "weak" at the beginning but improves as the album progresses.[2] He said some of the tracks display "the sense of humor that animated so much of Killing Time". Anderson opined that Funny Valentine is "great", but not "quite as great" as Massacre's first album. He felt that it needs "a little more discipline and a little less length, but not much more discipline and not too much less length".[2]
Track listing[]
All tracks are written by Massacre.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Leaf Violence" | 4:43 |
2. | "Down to Five a Day" | 4:42 |
3. | "Lizard-skin Junk-mail" | 5:26 |
4. | "Ladder" | 11:30 |
5. | "South Orange Sunset" | 4:13 |
6. | "Six-cylinder Sinister" | 5:21 |
7. | "300 Days in the Vacant Lot" | 7:34 |
8. | "Say Hey Willie" | 2:14 |
9. | "Talk Radio" | 3:48 |
10. | "Well-dressed Ripping up Wood" | 4:22 |
11. | "Further Conversations With White Arc" | 6:24 |
Source: AllMusic,[2] Discogs.[1]
Personnel[]
- Massacre
- Fred Frith – guitar
- Bill Laswell – bass guitars
- Charles Hayward – drums
Sound and artwork[]
- Robert Musso – engineer
- Allan Tucker – mastering
- Massacre – producer
- Kazunori Sugiyama – associate executive producer
- John Zorn – executive producer
- Ikue Mori – design
- Adolf Wölfli – artwork
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Funny Valentine at Discogs.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Anderson, Rick. "Funny Valentine". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
- 1998 albums
- Massacre (experimental band) albums
- Tzadik Records albums