Mercurial

1. Digga Digga Doo

2. Paul Revere

3. D.R.I.N.K.

4. Since I Met You Baby

5. Shine On Harvest Moon

6. Got My Mojo Workin'

7. Some Of These Days

8. Dance This Mess Around

9. TV Party

10. Hick Hop

11. Tight Like That

12. Sugar In My Bowl

13. Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue

14. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

Mercurial,Asylum Street Spankers,Spanks a Lot Records,Americana,Contemporary Folk,Neo-Traditional Folk,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,United States of America

Mercurial

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Worst from the best
Surprised how good this is . . .
The Mercurial King of the Blues

Mercurial Son
Lurrie Bell
Manufacturer: Delmark
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chicago Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Styles | Music

Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000004BLF
Release Date: 1995-10-12

Tracks:

Your Daddy Done Tripped The Trigger
Your Wild Thing Ain't Wild Enough (Instrumental)
Sweet Daddy Rest In Peace
Blues In The Year One-D-One
Just One Hour Behind The Sun
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Lurrie Bell's Hipshank (Instrumental)

Customer Reviews:

Worst from the best.......2004-03-22

I have all four of Lurrie Bell's Delmark recordings and this is my least favorite.Try Blues had a baby or Sweet kiss of the blues and you won't be disappointed.

Surprised how good this is . . ........2001-08-17

Just caught a bit of Lurrie Bell on a blues radio show the other night, and was intrigued enough to buy this disk. Great, great stuff. Bell's guitar work is awesome and he's got a haunting, hypnotic singing voice. Steve Cushing's songwriting is just great also - who knew? Just a great listen all around.

The Mercurial King of the Blues.......2000-10-18

This C.D. is the best blues offering in the last thirty years. It melds several blues styles with downright tribal rhythms, soaring, unbelievable guitar and brilliant songwriting with soulful singing to create a C.D. so compelling it is absolutely criminal that Lurrie is so unknown. Lurrie is the type of mysterious, troubled, talented genius from which legends are made. I will admit that this troubling music can be an aquired taste, but if you are a hardcore blues fan who is looking for something original and different, do not hesitate to buy this C.D., you will not be disappointed. Lurrie has made several recordings since Mercurial Son, and all have their charm, but this is the one, a must have, a true original. If you never buy another blues album, buy this one!

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Mercurial
Asylum Street Spankers
Manufacturer: Yellow Dog Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MV9OL8
Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

Digga Digga Doo
Paul Revere
D.R.I.N.K.
Since I Met You Baby
Shine Or Harvest Moon
Got My Mojo Workin'
Some Of These Days
Dance This Mess Around
TV Party
Hick Hop
Tight Like That
Sugar In My Bowl
Going Up To the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
It's a Sin To Tell a Lie

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Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial
Definitely Not Their Best
One of their best
Pure, polished, irreverent fun.
My 'New" favorite record

Mercurial
Asylum Street Spankers
Manufacturer: Spanks a Lot Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001A79EE
Release Date: 2004-02-03

Tracks:

Digga Digga Doo
Paul Revere
D.R.I.N.K.
Since I Met You Baby
Shine On Harvest Moon
Got My Mojo Workin'
Some Of These Days
Dance This Mess Around
TV Party
Hick Hop
Tight Like That
Sugar In My Bowl
Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie

Customer Reviews:

Asylum Street Spankers - Mercurial.......2007-05-24

Arrived as promised. Sounds good. Love the music.

Definitely Not Their Best.......2006-10-04

The biggest problem that you run into with musical acts that run contrary to the grain of popular culture is the unavoidable point at which they begin to classify themselves as novelty or kitsch. Mercurial marks perhaps the closest the Asylum Street Spankers have come to this unfortunate calamity, and the record suffers for it.

Don't get me wrong--I would still recommend this album to just about anybody. The blues/jazz/swing/country amalgamation that we've come to categorize as "acoustic music" is nowhere done better than anything the Spankers have released, and this record gets included in that statement. Mercurial has catchy, up-tempo numbers (Digga Digga Doo), great jazzy melodies (D.R.I.N.K.), a few old stand-by numbers (It's A Sin To Tell A Lie)--basically, everything that a regular listener might be used to seeing from this great musical ensemble. And the high points for this particular outing (including, but not limited to, those tracks which I've listed) are very high.

The problem is that the low points are at least equally low. Reinterpreting Paul Revere to a fairly rudimentary swing instrumental performance doesn't make you clever--it really just makes the band sound uncreative. The reinterpretation of Dance This Mess Around, TV Party, and Hick Hop also mark campy departures from the solid foundation that's made the Asylum Street Spankers one of my favorite bands in the past. These sorts of novelty performances can be quite a lot of fun in a live venue, but on the record they end up making the band sound a lot like Weird Al Yankovic with less polka and more jazz.

I'll admit it--I have a prediliction against music that doesn't take itself at all seriously, and this particular album has a lot of that stink all over it. More forgiving fans will should be able to easily accept the record, and indeed I would recommend it to most listeners (though those just getting started with the Spankers might be better advised to try out Spanker Madness or, if you can find it, Hot Lunch). For me, however, I ended up a little bit disappointed, not in what the record is, but for what it could have been.

One of their best.......2006-05-23

The first time I saw the Spankers was in 1998 in Austin. To me, that incarnation of the band will always be THE Asylum Street Spankers. But that's not to say that they still aren't the best thing to happen to American music since Bessie Smith. Mercurial, of course, is quintessential Spankers--just listen to the scatting on "Tight Like That", as Christina Marrs and Wammo counterpoint with one more voice (that I admit I can't identify)...Does it get any better than that? Or note how the group uses their genius to approximate (and improve upon) "Dance this Mess Around", using only acoustic instruments--if you've never heard a steel guitar banging out the chords for a B-52s song, you haven't lived. Or listen to Christina Marrs belt out "Got My Mojo Workin". Does it get any better than that?

Well, yes, actually, but you'll have to see them live. Until you can, Mercurial is a great way to get the Spanker experience.

Pure, polished, irreverent fun........2004-03-15

The Asylum Street Spankers defy easy categorization. Sticking resolutely to acoustic instruments including clarinet, harmonica, banjo and at times even musical saw, the Spankers perform a bewildering array of songs in just about every popular style extant in America since the end of World War I. Though the band's lineup changes with each recording, the two leaders have remained constant: Christina Marrs, whose vocal tone and range remind me of Barbara Cook with touches of Aretha Franklin and Betty Boop, and Wammo, who is truly one of a kind. The Spankers' MO is to take absolutely nothing seriously except their musicianship (which is polished to the point of glowing) and to celebrate all forms of pleasure, not excluding those that are generally considered to be either immoral, illegal or fattening. (For their sake, I hope John Ashcroft never gets hold of a copy of "Spanker Madness.") Their new album, "Mercurial"--so named for Mercury Hall in their home town of Austin, where this CD was recorded--basically is a sampler of everything that makes the Spankers great. They perform everything from true old-time numbers such as "Shine On Harvest Moon" and "Digga Digga Doo" to a hilarious cover of the B-52's "Dance This Mess Around." Christina Marrs lights up the torches in such down-and-dirty blues numbers as "Got My Mojo Workin'" and "Sugar in My Bowl," but it's Wammo who is the album's standout in his wonderful original, "Hick Hop," best described as a rumble between the posses of Toby Keith and Snoop Dogg. Sadly, "Mercurial" probably marks the last appearances of Stanley Smith and Korey Simeone as regular Spankers--Smith quit the band because of ill health, Simeone to pursue an acting career--but the new touring group of Spankers is as tight an ensemble as ever, and bodes well for the band's survival as a living monument to the Pleasure Principle.

My 'New" favorite record.......2004-02-24

This is the next best thing to a live performance. The recording at the Mercury Hall lends wonderful acoustics and I truly hope they record there again. Unlike most albums, where there is usually at least one bad or so-so tune, Mercurial is, from first to last track full of excellent music. Having seen the Spankers live on many occasions, the only thing missing is seeing them perform and watching the sparks fly. For those who are uninitiated to the wit and charm of the Spankers, this is an excellent first pick. Mojo, alone, is worth the full price. For those of us who are among the Spankers' growing list of fans, it's their best yet.

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Mercurial
The Neatbeats
Manufacturer: Get Hip Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003G1OA
Release Date: 1999-11-09

Tracks:

Looks So Nice
Reelin' and Rockin'
Just a Little Bit
It's in Her Kiss
Do the Global Twists
Beatific Morning
Farmer John
Hello Osephine
Where Have You Been?
Before It's Too Late
Long Tall Sally
Turning Up

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Dreams of Autocrashes

Manufacturer: India
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAGRPA
Release Date: 2004-01-27

Tracks:

dreams of autocrashes
wishes
emily
writing
time in / time Out
letter
air
heavens to betsy
tried to try
tiny
bad joke
mr. catfish says
breakfast
lullaby
hope
dreams end

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Mercurial Behaviour

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Light This Candle
Project Mercury
Manufacturer: Marian Mastrorilli Publishing
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002L14KM
Release Date: 2002-04-30

Tracks:

Family of Strangers
Enemy Lines
Faded Leather
At Palisades
If I Was a Child
Children At Play
Please Don't
Then I Remember
Champagne Afternoon
How Did You Get Like That?
Light This Candle

Product Description

Produced at Zing Studios, Westfield, MA. 11 Tracks written by Marian Mastrorilli: 1) Family Of Strangers 2) Enemy Lines 3) Faded Leather 4) At Palisades 5) If I Was A Child 6) Children At Play 7) Please Don't 8) Then I Remember 9) Champagne Afternoon 10) How Did You Get Like That? 11) Light This Candle.

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Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack
Ted's 12
Manufacturer: Wampus Multimedia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00069PEF6
Release Date: 2004-10-18

Tracks:

My Mercurial Nature (Arms of Kismet)
Love Projector
You Tell Bobby
Heebie-beejies
Vice Squad
Used Cars
Hormones
Latin Lover
Quicksilver
Stormy Weather
La La La La La
Phone Call
Sugar Shock
Persistence of Mercury (Arms of Kismet)
Conga Line
Titokaraoke
I Can't Find It
Vice Twice
Gale Warning
Ciao Maurice
Parents' Room Suite
Where's the Thief?
Have a Good Time
Visitation
Love Reflector
Mercurial Mustache
Whadda House

Album Description

Set in the early 1980s, the film "Ted's 12" follows a prepubescent's quest to get a night alone in his parents' home. But events don't unfold quite as he anticipates, leaving him scrambling to cover his tracks and salvage his ego.

Mitch Renault produced the score, which evokes 1980s rock and new wave against a backdrop of contemporary, postmodern pop. Arms of Kismet, whose debut CD came out in 2004, contributed "My Mercurial Nature," a mischievous look at coming of age in a world of sometimes comic temptation.

Enter: Unschooled Records Compilation V1.0
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FINALLY- NEW MUSIC THAT'S REALLY NEW !

Enter: Unschooled Records Compilation V1.0
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Unschooled
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000A344F
Release Date: 2003-06-23

Tracks:

Frazed - Doofgoblin
Matches - Decomposure
Interlude - 1st Class Lounge
Calomel - Plan 29
Glossy Trinket And Bonfire - Cloudscapes
Goyle - Shank
Totally Elephants - Carbon Based Life Form
I Am Watching You - A Bit Crusher
SubLoop Thud - Sonic Wallpaper
Unstable Orbit - Mercurial
In from the Cold - Powdermonkey
Song of the Trichomes - Natu Visu
Electronic Seals Paradise - Naton Rozenburg
Squiggle (Lost within the curves) - Turbogeek

Album Description

"ENTER" is the highly anticipated initial release from Chapel Hill, NC based label Unschooled Records. The CD is a well thought-out compilation of 14 tracks from electronic musicians representing an intersection in style, geography and time. Drawing on the talents of 12 musicians from 5 countries, ENTER provides the listener with an experience that is simultaneously diverse and comforting. Tracks that run the gamut in structure and complexity: From Decomposure's "Matches", an explosive seduction that consists entirely of samples of the artist lighting matches, to internet experimental notable doofgoblin's angst-tinged commercial debut "Frazed". Solo projects from Decomposure, doofgoblin, and Plan 29 will be released on Unschooled by October 2003

Customer Reviews:

FINALLY- NEW MUSIC THAT'S REALLY NEW !.......2003-06-27

I saw announcements for this CD pop up at several of my favorite sites over the past week, so I decided to check it out. Went to the label's website... and they had a flash music player with a bunch of samples. It sounded pretty tempting, so I picked up a copy. It's a new label and these are some really fresh tunes! It's all electronic and instrumental, so if you don't like the sound of that I wouldn't bother, but the CD has so many different styles and the best part is - they're not all trying to sound like Aphex Twin! There are 14 tracks and very few total dogs (about 3 in my book) but there are 4 KILLER songs; Matches (Decomposure), I am watching you (Bit Crusher), Frazed (Dooofgoblin) and Interlude (1st Class Lounge). All in all, a great deal for some outstanding new music - several of the musicians with the best tracks have full length CDs coming out this summer - I'll be back!