Employee of the Month

Austin Lounge Lizards | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sugarhill
• ASIN: B000000F60
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,989 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lizards Lead to Laughs and Leonard, December 12, 2006

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David Zimmerman (Baton Rouge, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Employee of the Month (Audio CD)

I can't estimate how much I've laughed and sang along to the songs in the Austin Lounge Lizards "Employee of the Month". Any anti-Cowboy fan will delight in learning and singing "Stupid Texas Song", a send-up on Texans pride in all things Texan ("if heaven isn't Texas, partner, I don't wanna die!"). The "Beach Lizards" follow up with "Hey Little Minivan", a family-bound hot rod song, complete with my favorite bridge line "Step away from the car! Step away from the car!" sung by the theft-deterrent system. "The Dogs, They Really Miss You" lampoons any number of broken-hearted country love songs (the dogs playing (or not playing) poker, carried over from "Paint Me on Velvet" are featured near the end). "Rocky Byways" tells the story of a "sharp dressed chicken" (from an itinerant bluegrass band) being discovered by Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl at the Piggly Wiggly and somehow it all makes sense. "Love in a Refrigerator Box", the story of what happens when a junior high school couple gives birth to triplets "Velma, Thor and I"--love conquers all as they live in a 20 cubic foot refrigerator box and wear "blown out tires" for shoes. "Leonard Cohen's Day Job" takes a shot at the Canadian troubador, whom I've grown to love after the Lizards directed me to him. The album closes with "The Other Shore", a look at what awaits when we die--as we are reunited with all our possessions, both those wanted and those lost ("earring backs, National Geographics from 1974, crazy cowboy shirts" and many others). This one is a capella and the harmonies are really quite nice if you can hear them over your own laughter. The title appears nowhere in the album, but it still seems appropriate--we can all use a little Lizards laughter as we run on the mouse's treadmill every day.

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Austin Lounge Lizards CD (for now), October 25, 2006

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jules (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Employee of the Month (Audio CD)

Although listening to the Austin Lounge Lizards' CDs doesn't come close to seeing them live (which I highly recommend!), this is my favorite CD of their collection. My favorite songs on here are: "Monkey on my Back", "Rocky Byways", and "The Other Shore". The last song is beautiful, despite having the usual satiric Lizards' twist to the lyrics.

Definitely go see them live if you can -- I have been attending their concerts since 1991, and have enjoyed every one of them.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lizards Forever, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Employee of the Month (Audio CD)

I love this CD because it's funny and witty. I can only say one thing, "buy it".