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Kim Fowley and Buzzy Beano
Strange Plantations
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Questions/Answers
2. Rainbow Sky Rhinestone Sun
3. Crimson Seagull
4. Dancing in a Danger Mix
5. Surfin' Through Cyber Space
6. Land of 1000 DJ's
7. Nuclear Weekend
8. Down the Super Highway
9. Smoke & Mirrors
10. Bad Dog Club
11. Hot House Passion
12. Underwater
13. Brainstorm
14. Happy Pigs/Sleeping Cows
15. Learn to Live Without Sleep
16. Caged Animal

CD Details

All Artists: Kim Fowley and Buzzy Beano
Title: Strange Plantations
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Four Cats/Radionic Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2004
Release Date: 1/1/2004
Genres: Folk, Pop, Rock
Style: Contemporary Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 008318112729

Synopsis

Album Description

Kim Fowley is the next step after Frankenstein and Bozo the clown, with a croaking voice from the Tom Waits / Leonard Cohen school of aquired taste singers. Buzzy Beano is a multi-instrumentalist vocal cameleon who excels at engineering and mixing. Kim and Buzzy made 5 years of soundlab music experimental recordings at The Apartment Studio in Jefferson, LA. between 1996-2001. Various local and overseas musical penpals participated in these "off the wall" noise experiments....in a pop music framework. Already underground / subversive music collectors are raving over the results that are Strange Plantations. Kim Fowley has recorded with or composed for: John Lennon - Nirvana - The Mothers of Invention - Kiss - The Runaways - Motley Crue - Alice Cooper - Blue Cheer - The Germs - Them And The Seeds. Strange Plantations is not music you will hear at Mardi Gras. Strange Plantations is the music you will hear in the about to be built American colonies on Mars and the Moon.

CD Reviews

Can None Of You Recognize An Icon?

Thomas Burgess | San Francisco | 12/13/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After collecting 24 disks of Fowley, it's hard to isolate any one and give it the attention that it deserves. What I like about this era of Fowley is how he takes what is essentially music for morons (or androids), which is to say: Techno, and makes it interesting, while also commenting upon the genre, as in "Land Of 1000 D.J.s"; "There's robots in the rain"; after all, who would want to listen to a d.j. but fellow robots. But then the man has been at it for quite some time. Hell, he has ten years on me, and I'm ancient. And, after all, "Questions/Answers don't mean much to a gypsy dancer". What can I say, because I seem to be at a loss for words, which is rare indeed, but makes my point clear. If you want to understand fifty years of rock and/or roll, buy all the Fowley you can, start with "Ally Opp" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and go from there. By next July 21 you might get some insight, and you can sent Kim an e-mail on his seventy-first. There is no one in music alive with such credibility, and when he passes he will leave a void that no one in Generation Gauche will be able to fill."