Coming Into Beauty

The Mommyheads (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: Simple Machines
• ASIN: B000VLC4ZW
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #581,086 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

OUT OF PRINT 1992 CD includes 1. Wedding Day 2. Coming Into Beauty 3. Nino Wrote A Tune 4. I Started Breathing 5. Blind Like A Camera 6. Catbird 7. Like A Brick 8. Sunfish, Sunflower 9. Grace 10. Pigeon In Your Tongue 11. Today 12. Swimming 13. I Dreamed 14. I'm Not Real 15. Hepsaba's Compass. Color booklet and insert.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful album, beautiful band., April 19, 2006

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tokyo111 (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coming Into Beauty (Audio CD)

The Mommyheads are an object lesson in why the music industry sucks. This was a band that should have gone All The Way, but instead got almost instantly sunk when they made the leap to a major label.

Anyone who ever saw them play live (and they played constantly, at clubs all around America, for years) was instantly a convert, and I mean *anyone* -- I once watched them win over a barful of jaded West Virgina hillbillies. No minor feat for a pop band.

Speaking of which, that's what they were -- a pop band. But the term doesn't quite do them justice. Elements of The Beatles and XTC are prevalent in most of their work, but depending on their mood they could also incorporate liberal doses of funk, psychedelia, jazz and even noise-rock.

"Coming Into Beauty" is a snapshot of the Mommyheads at a crossroads between their early, ultra-eclectic work and their later, more consistently poppy stuff. Singer/guitarist Adam Cohen would gradually take on more of the frontman duties from this point on, but on "Coming Into Beauty" there are plenty of contributions from other band members, which gives the thing a sprawling, anything-goes feel. From the perfect catchiness of opening track "Wedding Day" to the amiably stoned "Grace" to the loopy instrumental "Nino Wrote A Tune," it's all wonderful, in a lot of different ways. Listen and imagine what might have been...