Funky Little Demons [Import]

Wolfgang Press | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 18, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: PID
• ASIN: B00005YUHB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,024 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Wolfgang at their best, November 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Funky Little Demons (Audio CD)

This is far and away Wolfgang Press's best work. Since their first offerings of "Standing Up Straight" and "The Legendary Wolfgang Press" (which basically played like garage recordings with ocassional hints of brilliance) to the lively "Queer", which is full of solid, catchy tunes (and perhaps the best version of Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me not to Come" ever) to "Funky Little Demons", The Wolfgang Press have come a loooong way over the years.

With "Funky Little Demons", they present a mature, offbeat fushion of funk, soul, dance, and U.K. pop that will have you dancing and singing along in your head long after the music has faded. The lead male vocalist's voice is deep, resonant, and beautiful. Above all, his voice, like the groups complex but accessible sound, is just very different. Every time I've ever played Wolfgang Press around friends, they always ask "What's that you're playing? I want it!"

Well, go and get it, I always say. You won't be sorry. You'll be hooked with this opening track, the funky "Going South", which is just one great big, delicious sexual metaphore. "Eleven Years" and "Blood Satisfaction" harken back to "Queer". "Chains" is the best track, an unbelievably passionate, melodic dance tune. It deserves to be an international hit. The brash and high energy "Christianity" is a close second, as is the beautiful and mellow "Derek the Confessor". "So Long Dead" and "Executioner" are the weakest tracks. "She's So Soft" is an intoxicatingly fun little number. "New Glass" is a nice all instrumental lead in to the exquisitely funky "Fallen Not Broken". The final track, "People Say" deserves to be a classic and will have you begging for more.

I highly recommend "Funky Little Demons", and if you don't already have it, "Queer" is well worth picking up as well.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wry, sardonic, and danceworthy, May 4, 2000

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Kent David Kelly "Author & Anthologist" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funky Little Demons (Audio CD)

The off-kilter Press is most definitely an acquired taste. If you're not in the mood for ironic wit, cutting barbs, adventurous rhythms, and something you've never heard before, you'll be at a disadvantage on first listen. The most approachable track here is the underground dance classic Christianity (not quite a secular embrace!), and the rest is nearly as good. If you're in the mood for something different, try this. It may well change your mind about the predictability of quality music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the 90s best records, May 25, 2004

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emvb "loghome2" (SEATTLE) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funky Little Demons (Audio CD)

Take some de la soul-nick cave style vocals- mix in hiphop and soul-stir with a little stereo mcs and tricky-add some artfunk talking heads style and what you get is the wolfgang press's masterstroke funky little demons. Criminally underappreciated- the first six songs rival the best side 1( if it were a record) ever put to tape. This is a leap from the also excellent queer album- fld is more organic and has production that still sounds good ten years on. Easily one of the 90s best records- with the highlights being chains- blood satsifaction- christianity(which sounds like the sopranos theme song-these guys should sue)-going south- and the album closer people say(which is a classic lou reed style song). The album loses abit from cuts 7-9 but returns with full strength for the final three cuts.( still fairly good songs though). The album is a mix of wahhed guitars- burbling electronics-horns- shuffled hiphop-some groove bass- and michael allens low baritone that despite a lack of range works perfect with the music. I never really got earlier efforts by this group but by the late 1980s this 4ad act had begun to strike gold- and as a farewell this is walking away with heads held high and leaving behind the best for last. GEt it now- truly essential!!