Conn, Bobby

Bobby Conn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 2009)
• Original Release Date: May 15, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: ATAVISTIC
• ASIN: B000004ASZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,154 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funky, disturbing, mellow - all in one, May 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Conn, Bobby (Audio CD)

I bought this album after seeing Bobby's performance on MTV's Alternative Nation. What striked me about him was his rather strange appearance. After reading about him on the web, I had to hear his music properly so I ordered of copy of this album. I wasn't disappointed. This man makes Marilyn Manson seem normal. The album opens with the fractured funk noise of Overture which is a perfect intro for the album. The obvious highlight is 'Never Get Ahead' which is the perfect 3 minute pop song. 'Never Get Ahead' is also the only track suitable to be released as a single (except for Axis '67 part 1 perhaps). Some of it is rather disturbing (No Kids No Money), some of it is mellow (Axis '67 part 1) and some of it is damn funky! (the Sportsman). This is the perfect introduction to the Chicago no-wave scene.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most amazing, grooving, inspiring music I've heard., February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Conn, Bobby (Audio CD)

Bobby Conn manages to combine funk, punk, rock opera, and digital music in a way which blows my mind. The most exciting stage presence and persona go along with this talented musician. If you want to "get down" all night while fighting against social forces-then give it a try- You'll like it!!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He's Bobby Conn, and that's all there is to it, September 27, 2003

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owlberg (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conn, Bobby (Audio CD)

Well. Let's start off by saying that there is no way to take a neutral position on Bobby Conn: either he's the most hysterically funny abuser of established forms from the past (specifically 70's funk and 'Shaft-soundtrack'-styled R&B, 60's Motown, and drug-fried lurching slow-ass blues), or he's an insulting offensive abomination that revels in an annoying faux retro-decadence and pseudo-bad-trippy fake 'wild-man weirdness' that just makes you wish Screamin' Jay Hawkins would walk up and smack Mr. Conn down but good. In between, there's a long cut-up collage that reveals an unhealthy obsession with Paul McCartney. Works for me.

If you don't mind hearing about a number of rather unsavory subject matters (sacrilege, sodomy, substance abuse, Paul McCartney) and can cope with a vocalist that occasionally sounds like a 'slow child' in the grip of a Tourette's Syndrome fit, you'll find something of value here. Conn is essentially the punk rock Beck, or a white George Clinton on seriously bad mescaline. His musical cohorts sure know their stuff, allowing Conn to screw with your head while you try to 'dig the grooves' they 'lay down'. That flanged wah-wah pedal sure gets a lot of use. To test people's endurance to mind-numbingly wacky stuff, I usually play either this or the Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes compilation. If they get past either one, they get a nice drink and a Pere Ubu song as a reward.

You might want to start considering getting down upon it, hep-cat. I know that I did, and regretted it not.