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Various Artists
Off The Charts Companion CD Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Human Breakdown of Absurdity (Norm Burns and the Singers)
2. "The subjects I write about..." (Caglar Juan Singletary)
3. Non-Violent Taekwondo Troopers (David Fox)
4. Danish Radio Intro
5. Caravan (David Fox)
6. Blind Man's Penis (Ramsey Kearney)
7. I'm a Ginseng Digger (Gene Merlino and the Sunburst Studio Musicians)
8. Jimmy Carter Says Yes! (Gene Marshall)
9. The Day Snowflakes were Born (Rod and the MSR Singers)
10. Little Rug Bug (Rod Rogers with the Swinging Strings)
11. Ecstacy(sic) to Frenzy (Rodd Keith)
12. Aliases
13. The 23rd Channel (Gene Merlino and the Sunburst Studio Musicians)
14. The Thing (David Fox)
15. The Flitting Firefly (Rod Rogers)
16. Annie Oakley (David Fox)
17. "Eddie's not gonna come back..." (Gene Merlino)
18. Out in the Woods (Gene Merlino and the Sunburst Studio Musicians)
19. "Iowa Mountain Tour" (Gary Forney)
20. Three-Eyed Boy (studio version) (Gary and Josh Forney)
21. "Let's just experiment here..." (Ramsey Kearney)
22. Nighttime Whispers (Ramsey Kearney)
23. Cloud Nine (Rodd Keith)

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Off The Charts Companion CD Soundtrack
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Red Rock Records/Complex Corporation
Original Release Date: 2/1/2004
Re-Release Date: 2/12/2004
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 829757591728

Synopsis

Album Description

Red Rock Records and Complex Corporation are proud to announce the release of the soundtrack CD of Off the Charts: The song Poem Story, the acclaimed documentary feature from director Jamie Meltzer. The Soundtrack CD features liner notes written by Penn Jillete of Penn and Teller, contains songs from the film and fascinating snippets of dialogue sepearating the tracks. Off the Charts: The Song Poem Story, which premiered in a national broadcast on PBS' Independent Lens series, is a feature-length documentary about the sometimes unsettling, but always fascinating, world of the song-poem industry.In this little-known subculture, ordinary people send in their heartfelt, but often bizarre, poems to companies that-for a fee-turn them into the full-fledged musical productions featured on the companion CD soundtrack.

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CD Reviews

Human Breakdown Of Absurdity

Robert I. Hedges | 12/25/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an amazing CD. I highly recommend watching the DVD from which these gems were pulled before listening. I also warn you not to listen to this while driving your car or operating heavy machinery.

I have been a fan of odd and outsider music since the late 1970s, and now there is a documentary explaining the wonders of the genre to everyone. I had actually heard many of these songs before, but here there are actually remakes of some of the originals by Gene Merlino and crew. I am especially fond of "The 23rd Channel" by Merlino, a religious song about television, "I am a Ginseng Digger" about, well, digging ginseng (I couldn't make this up), and the classic by Ramsey Kearney (which he apologized for in the film) which will remain nameless in this review for reasons of good taste, but will be extremely evident when you listen to the CD. I also love the David Fox stuff written by Caglar Juan Singletary, especially the ode to his super-bicycle, Angeleria, titled "Non-Violent Taekwondo Troopers." Singletary's "Annie Oakley" is also structurally very interesting; when I watched the DVD I felt very fond of him, he seems a bit odd and strange, but extremely sincere.

There are other outsider music CD's out there (check out Jim Nayder, "Songs in the Key of Z," and of course the original outsider divas, "The Shaggs," who Frank Zappa declared "better than the Beatles") but this CD and the companion DVD are thoughtfully made and really humanize the people making this music. Sure this isn't great music, but it really makes these people happy, and I defy anyone to listen to this CD and not smile, albeit with an occasional grimace, too. I highly recommend this CD and the companion DVD of the same title.

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