Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job [Live]

Ed's Redeeming Qualities | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Slow River Records
• ASIN: B000005NFX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,432 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Princess & A Horseman Of The Apocalypse Have Lunch

2. How Come No One's Dancin?

3. Met A Man

4. Paper Hat

5. Scofflaw

6. Guess Who This Is

7. Green Glass

8. Knockin Down Chickens

9. I Will Wait

10. Drivin On 9

11. Intentions

12. Rib Garden

13. Another Song In Celebration Of Chickens

14. Song Nancy Hates

15. Bad Memories

16. All Messed Up

17. Spanish Champagne

18. Swiss Chard

19. Light & Fire & Smoke & Blood & Stuff

20. Calypso On The Beach

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun Tunes from Fun People, September 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job (Audio CD)

This CD is fun and light-hearted music from a band that was a true delight to see live. I miss their gigs which always drew a crowd of people to dance, sing along, and laugh. In the years since I bought this CD, it has kept my fiance and I entertained on several cross-country drives and makes me smile whenever I slide it into my stereo. My favorites are "The Princess and the Horseman of the Apocalpse...(aka "the Unicorn Song"), "New Jersey", "I Met a Man", "Green Glass", "Driving on 9", "Swiss Chard", and "Calypso on the Beach". I even bought a tee-shirt at one of the gigs with the cover art and lyrics to all the songs... (sniff!) I miss Ed's :(

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to transcend the mundane..., July 1, 1999

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This review is from: Big Grapefruit Cleanup Job (Audio CD)

Transcending the mundane with its own devices.. I can think of no better way to describe the music of Ed's Redeeming Qualities. A quaint mix of folk, blues, alternative, with a dash of country, Ed's eschews the "standards" of these genres by REFUSING to embrace an over-reliance on percussion. It's impossible to describe how wonderful it is to hear Carrie's breathy expositions without some drug-crazed, slack-jawed wacko banging away arythmically on a snare in the background. Though one might find their music merely light-hearted, the jovial demeanor is really a veneer; what lies below is the stuff that we all struggle with in some form or another; death, love, ambition, finding beauty in ordinary flies in a blue light. For me, this is not party music; this music is for quiet introspection in a dark room with an alcoholic beverage in my hand, contemplating insecurities, failures, and hope for the future.