Globe of Frogs

Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002GHU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,711 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tropical Flesh Mandala

2. Vibrating

3. Balloon Man

4. Luminous Rose

5. Sleeping With Your Devil Mask

6. Unsettled

7. Chinese Bones

8. A Globe Of Frogs

9. The Shapes Between Us Turn Into Animals

10. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's all commotion, there's no choice, September 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Globe of Frogs (Audio CD)

This album is full of colorful imagery and silliness. Imagine that Syd Barrett wasn't insane, but just a Brit having a good time making fun of Yellow Submarine. Over all one of the best Psychedelic albums since Endless Summer.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flesh Number One, November 18, 2004

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Christian Buckley (Washington State, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Globe of Frogs (Audio CD)

He stole the show when he opened for R.E.M., and I've been a fan ever since. This album epitomizes Robyn Hitchcock's style: jangly, funny, refreshing, and clever. This album has a sort of mystical air to it, broken only by visualizations of fat men, floating and and then exploding, leaving debris of skin and lunch leftovers on your sleeve. For me, highlights include the fun 'Tropical Flesh Mandala', 'Balloon Man' of course, and the nice little perfect pop number, 'Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)' which illustrates that when Robyn sets out to write something meaningful and a tad bit commercial, he can still do it without compromising.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Weird, but fun, loony tunes, October 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Globe of Frogs (Audio CD)

Robyn Hitchcock inhabits a wild, weird world of unbridled lyrical imagination. You can either interpret the lyrics as just so much hallucinatory silliness, or treat them as the great brush strokes of an artist painting an alternate, if highly whimsical, universe.

Either way, you'll have to admit that these quirky ditties can be fun. Not everything is great here, and he has released stronger albums, but Globe Of Frogs is interesting. It also contains some good guitar work from R.E.M.'s Peter Buck.