Bar Ballads & Cautionary Tales

The Ribeye Brothers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Times Beach
• ASIN: B000B8GTNS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,820 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nothing to Show You

2. Roberto Durán

3. Buffalo

4. We Became Snakes

5. From the Floor

6. Lonesome Rhodes

7. Turpentine

8. Electric Chair

9. Horn of Plenty

10. Find Yer Own

11. (Interlude) Nature's President #1

12. Goddamn the Sun

13. (Interlude) Nature's President #2

14. Death or Greyhound

15. Working Men Are Pissed

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheerer Brilliance., October 27, 2009

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Warren Rhodesia "armchair ethnomusiconcologist" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bar Ballads & Cautionary Tales (Audio CD)

Everything in my review for their first album goes here, too, plus. The Ribeyes make 99% (and perhaps more) of the bands these days sound pitifully lame (which they are). The poet laureates of everyone who's not a smiling, smug, in-crowd winner conformist.

3.0 out of 5 stars Raw (But Not Undercooked) Meat...And Rolling Rock, June 28, 2008

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Phil S. (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bar Ballads & Cautionary Tales (Audio CD)

The best songs on this sonic exposition are indeed the two tracks which bear some resemblance to the CD title: "From The Floor" and "Death Or Greyhound" are miasmic tales of hangovers on the brink and full blown.
Tim Cronin's foreboding voice warns us of the endless detours called Life. The thing coulda used some high harmony to take the rusted, rough edge off the vocal attack, though. A little June Carter sweetening in the beer batter.
The opener, "Nothing To Show You", is uptempo, like the rest of the set. Good, adventuresome lyrics countered by a somewhat monotone lead vocal, in the spirit of the whole opus. Right away you get some Insane Clown Posse flavoring, with maybe a few zaps of Zappa in the mix.
"Turpentine" might be considered Beatle-esque - has the whirling in-and-out sound from their pyschedelic period. Need a lyric booklet here, Brothers. There are a few occasions here where the (pause) slightly illucid verse isn't helped by a very low lead vocal mix.
Artwork on the package conveys a message the wasteland is out there if you want it and neighborhood bars, diners where the wait staff buses the tables and serves the omelettes in one swift motion, and abandoned cars in forgotten lots can only welcome you in.
Some of the sounds are so severe, you may need a designated listener.

5.0 out of 5 stars Second only to the Wacos, January 4, 2006

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Glinda M. Wyndorf "The Naughty Pine Baron" (Cliffwood, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bar Ballads & Cautionary Tales (Audio CD)

Tim Cronin has a voice like Makers Mark Whiskey being poured on roadrash. Painfully comforting, you might say. These guys are brilliant and politically perfect in every way. Buy their record.