Fresh, Fun, and Original!
author: John Tolley
If you like your music fresh, fun, and original, this CD is for you! Tom's lyrics and vocal stylings are delivered in a unique way guaranteed to make you smile (if not laugh aloud) and the instrumentation is first rate, combining rock, jazz, and country in a way unlike anything you may have heard elsewhere. Buy this CD!
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hilarious, ingenious and satisfyingly musical...
author: Kathy Hussey
I love to laugh, but I've gotten a little jaded and even cynical about "funny songs". This album made me laugh OUT LOUD, all by myself, wishing I had someone in the room to turn to and share the joke. What makes this album such a standout, though, is how great the music is...it covers a lot of stylistic territory and does so with great panache ("an ornamental tuft [as of feathers] esp on a helmet" is what that actually means, as it turns out)
I love Tom Manche's voice - he could convincingly deliver just about any kind of lyric, and here he uses just the right amount of sardonic edge without assuming that we need that to understand that he is being funny. I love the production, the arrangements, the top-notch players, and the way he manages to gently spin many of these lyrics from comical to poignant, without ever resorting to cliche. Oh yeah, and he's REALLY, REALLY funny.
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A Real Coffee Snorter...
author: Charles Alexander
This disc lives in my car. It is simply one of the most intelligent, humorous (bet you never thought you could have both those words in the same sentence) works I've heard in decades. Tom is funny. But, he is also brilliant as a writer, producer, singer, arranger and a musician.
Too hot to not hold...My faves are "He Calls Me "Man"" and "Dull"...
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A building block of adult reality
author: Bruce Antink
Having heard a number of these songs live, I am ever so happy to have them in a permanent form. The production values on this recording are outstanding, mixing is wonderful.... if I can't have Tom in my living room, I'll be happy to have this disc! This is a MONSTER!
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