Medallion Animal Carpet

Bob Drake | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 1999)
• Original Release Date: December 21, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Recommended Records
• ASIN: B0000300QF
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,129 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hideous Shrub

2. Crude Internal Organ

3. Detrimental Robot

4. Maybe It's____

5. Concrete Husky

6. How Was It

7. Where There Is Nothing

8. Mound

9. Bedraggled Things

10. Flashy Smog Wolf Person

11. Do You Hear, See, Ammonia

12. Slab

13. One Night, In an Old Fashioned ______

14. Light Seen in Empty_______

15. Dehydrated

16. I'm Afraid There Are Results

17. Over in the Glory Land

18. Seven Cents

19. Title Unknown

20. Angel Band

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A schizophrenic changing radio stations., November 5, 2001

By 

Ian A. Johnson (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medallion Animal Carpet (Audio CD)

Bob Drake got his start with a band my father co-founded with him in the early 1980s. Well, nearly 20 years later, Bob has released Animal Medallion Carpet which I was privvy to listen to on a CDR before its official release. This album is simply amazing.

Bob uses many different styles, sounds, and recording and production techniques, at which he is a master, and combines them into a rich, deep, almost chaotic threads woven into pattern like random thoughts or as if you were changing the radio stations as you traveled through time and through parallel dimensions. So, that's somewhat vague, but there can't be anything articulated that could possibly bring one who hasn't heard this album, or Bob's styles to an understanding.

The first part of the album - songs 1-16 are just simply incredible. Here are the classic Bob-sounding melodies and dissonant harmonies which he somehow is able to make very listenable. This album is very much instrumental with only a small amount of emphasis on voice and lyrics. They aren't non-sensical Yes lyrics, but non-sensical Drake lyrics or lyrics that can't really be heard because of all the raucous noise happening in the foreground. This he does intentionally. He uses a program called "Spaghetti" for "Concrete Huskey" which makes random sentences out of one's own vocabulary.

The second part which includes tracks 17-23 sound as though someone is driving through Appalachia and switching the radio stations seemingly at random. Very cool, and very bewitchin'.

The third part is the last track which is a fine conclusion to such a major work as this.

There is some feeling of "What Day Is It" which, in my opinion, is Bob Drake's all time best album. However, "Animal Medallion Carpt" is not only breathtaking, it is an important work of art, as is Bob Drake an important sound-artist who has earned a place in my CD collection forever.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and strange music, February 25, 2000

By 

Jason DuMars (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Medallion Animal Carpet (Audio CD)

Bob Drake is a masterful vocalist, guitarist, drummer and recording engineer. The music on AMC is wildly diverse and full of quirky, entertaining short tunes. As with all of his projects, this one is nothing like the last one, and will likely bear no resemeblance to the next. Bob is one of the true musical masters living today, and I can't praise his musical sensibilities highly enough. His first album, "What Day Is It?" is my favorite album of all time, and you can only get it directly from him. You can e-mail him at [e-mail] to get a copy, and I HIGHLY recommend that you do!