Fall of Mopsqueezer [Original recording reissued]

Flop | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Frontier Records
• ASIN: B000003SUB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,477 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Told a Lie

2. Anne

3. Glue Factory

4. Tomato Paste

5. Entropy

6. Big Sky

7. Hello

8. Ugly Girl Lover

9. You Would Be Right Excerpt

10. Zeus My Master

11. Asthenia

12. Sister Smile

13. Parasite

14. Morton the Venereologist

15. Circus Freak

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flop is Pop...and a lot more!, June 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Fall of Mopsqueezer (Audio CD)

I haven't had a record grab me like this for ages...from the opening burst of 'I Told A Lie', Rusty Willoughby leads his late band through a rockin', flawless collection of truly superior tunes. I have a feeling this CD will be in my changer for a looooong time. Rusty, you're my rock and roll hero!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A band that never got its due . . ., July 10, 2001

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J. Klein (SF, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fall of Mopsqueezer (Audio CD)

3 terrific albums, kicking it off with this, the best one. Everything works here -- fat hooks AND riffs, tremendous playing (especially from the lead guitarist, Bill Campbell), darkly-comic lyrics from Rusty Willoughby, and great variety in the song arrangements. All in all, this is a great team effort by a band that must have been disappointed to see its genius go so unrecognized. Check out the other 2 too -- Whenever You're Ready is especially worthwhile.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Science Is About a Quarter Superstition!, September 28, 2001

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Mark Allen Davis (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fall of Mopsqueezer (Audio CD)

I really love Flop, especially their middle cd, Whenever You're Ready. This, their first CD, is nearly as much fun. Their last CD for me was tighter, but lacked the melodies and goofy lyrics that really make the first two so great.

What's cool about Flop? First off, you've got a band that practices pop with harmonies like the Monkeys from the 60's tv show, but you've also got an extremely quirky garage band with a raw sound and a willingness to try just about anything. You get cool melodies with very odd lyrics; and even if you don't really know what the songs are about, there are some very cool lines. "Mom used to make her head explode, I never thought to ask her why. And daddy used to make her cry, so it goes." "Threw a stone into the bottomless sea, and tied to it was the hope that you're coming back to me." "Fear and shame hold hands and hide the form of a real solution." "Bold slashing maggot teeth, powerful and treelike limbs of allosaur go by." Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes the song titles have no relation to anything in the song, but it's always great power pop with all the rough edges left unpolished, and always lyrically fascinating. You won't be bored.

Pure Joy, Willoughby's previous band, was also good garage pop, albeit not as wonderfully wierd as Flop. I like both.