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Tin Huey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Future Fossil
• ASIN: B000031VQJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,603 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #88 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Hard Rock & Metal

Track Listings

1. CHEAP MECHANICS

2. THE TIN HUEY STORY, PART 2

3. OTIS SAYS NO

4. CLOSET BEARS

5. LOVELY LITTLE THING

6. MISSING PERSONS

7. RELIABLE SOURCES

8. BLOW 'EM AWAY

9. ROBERT TAKES THE ROAD TO LIEBERNAWASH/LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD HIT THE ROAD

10. WISE UP

11. ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE

12. SEEING

13. LIVING WITH STRANGERS

14. SICK JONES

15. THE TIN HUEY STORY

Editorial Reviews

Dave Ziegler - Rockslide

"The fact that a CD containing 20-year-old recordings by a defunct band can have more energy, creativity and sheer inventiveness than 99% of the music available today is proof once again that we are living thru rock's Dark Ages."

Product Description

A new CD celebrating Tin Huey's 20th Anniversary of us not being a band! Contains the missing 'lost 2nd album', plus oddities, experiments, demos & even a live cut.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the unmoved mover, July 23, 2003

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Raymond Violette (Lakemore, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Disinformation (Audio CD)

So I'm standin' there chainsawin' up this big ole maple that come down in the recent storms, miserable work, even fer a robust old soul like me. And on the radio comes this song, ``Sick Jones,'' by this band, Tin Huey, the likes of which I've never heard. Dropped my pullsaw and ran straight out to the record store, where I hadda wait six weeks while they ordered it up from some warehouse somewheres. Anyhoo: Having read some now, I realize it's kinda a cliche to say Tin Huey is hard to compare to anything, but I'd say this is the greatest marriage of 1940s country yodel and Slovenian post-disco since founding member Harvey Gold's pre-Huey band the Teabaggers. (They used to do a "War Pigs"/"Deliverance" medley, if you can believe it.) Anyhoo: This is transcendant music and take it from me it'll stop your chainsawin' right now and I mean right now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST record to come out in years!, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Disinformation (Audio CD)

I watched the movie a few years back and I've never forgotten the music. Truffaut couldn't have found a better score to underlie the intrigue and mystery. Songs like 'Wise Up' and 'Living With Strangers' still evoke the mood of conspiracy that made the movie and it's score unforgettable. Tin Huey is a band of young upper-class Bulgarian art students who mix an eclectic range of influences into a humorous pastiche of American Gothic Rock'n'Roll. Paying homage to their homeland, the Hueys append 'The Tin Huey Story' with the ghost-like singing their parents grew up with, after demonstrating that things will never be that simple any more. Their name comes from the description, in a Sophia newspaper, of a UFO encounter in a remote part of their country. The boys found profound amusement that the farmer who sighted the craft could think of no more lustrous metal than 'tin'. The songs 'Reliable Sources' and 'Seeing' are based on this story. Nothing about Western culture has escaped their notice, even hinting that the American obsession with Mayberry hides a deeper and more sinister meaning in 'Otis Says No' and 'Closet Bears'. And yet, they display a touching romantic side, as well. 'Lovely Little Thing' has always made me think of the Beach Boys meeting Leonard Cohen at the 7-11 just in time for the new doughnuts. Although I rated this disc with five stars, it deserves at least TEN. Buy it, it will 'Blow YOU Away'!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars someone help me, I can't stop playing this thing!, December 19, 2000

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Michael Heminger "pantherboy" (Pardeeville, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Disinformation (Audio CD)

I found this little gem in a local thrift store, not knowing that these art-school lifers had managed to cobble together a follow up to the before-its-time "Contents Dislodged During Shipment", released before I was in high school!! I expected some thinly worn imitations of these Devo-bretherens' quirky, jazz-tinged pre-80's glory, and was in for a shock!

I tossed this in while I planned to do dishes or something, and soon found myself drawn into the room ("hey! This is a great record!!") reading the cover and wondering about these guys. Great vocal harmonies and layered tracks, fabulous interplay of instruments, and a panache of humor that doesn't obscure the musical integrity. The high quality and lack of a definitive categorizable sound makes this task difficult (just look at the range of adjectives in the other reviews!) but it stands as the perfect example of what it really is - a 'band' of guys who grew apart geographically, never really 'broke up', and worked/sat on these songs for as long as 20 years!! The 80's quirkiness is here "Otis Says No" and also a smooth 70's progressive/arty feel not unlike Todd Rundgren would be sounding had success escaped him. A dreamy quality pervades many of my favorite tracks, particularly "Reliable Sources" - the most accurate aural description of an extraterrestrial visit since Sonic Youth's "Disappearer". Evocative and seamless, "disinformation" plays like a fine film, sounding more modern (or even post-modern) than dated.

I've been adrift on this wonderful ride for a month now (I think I've played it 50 times) and don't know if I'll ever tire of it. Essential, if you love good quality, imaginative, and well-played music.