Old Wives Tales

Exene Cervenka | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 4, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B000008E49
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,357 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. She Wanted

2. Biggest Memory

3. Here Come The Crucifiers

4. Cocktail Trees

5. Famous Barmaid

6. Leave Heaven Alone

7. Good Luck

8. White Trash Wife

9. He's Got A She

10. Gravel

11. Coyote On The Town

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Dark Horse Of X Blasts Outta The Gate., July 22, 2004

By 

Baron Dakota (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old Wives Tales (Audio CD)

Ms. Exene Cervenka's solo debut landed as if to finally torch all the one-note, punk-uniformity-insisting, Doubting Thomases that dogged her monumentally excellent previous band, X toward the end of their outstanding reign as the greatest American Rock band of the Eighties. 'Old Wives' Tales' sonically resides somewhere between the Hillbilly, drunken-twang and bluegrass mutations __first affectionately revealed on her X-side-project, The Knitters__ and mixing in ill-willed folk styles with her obvious penchant for good ole kick-a** Cow-Punk fury. Songs like "Leave Heaven Alone", "She Wanted", and "Here Come The Crucifiers" are 3 of the most ravishingly beautiful songs Exene has ever composed, and HER VOICE is simultaneously infused with vitriol and sincere, heart-breaking sweetness. And her smashing lyricism here justifies every bit of it. Just try to top that, all you hardcore fascists. "Famous Barmaid" is a perfectly phrased and delivered spoken piece,(half-autobiographical, perhaps?)rhythmically recited over a jazzy, dive-bar band live backdrop. An absolute gem. "White Trash Wife", and "He's Got A She" are great hollering Punk numbers reflecting her uniquely dark take of post-modern womanhood. Three-quarters of the way through the disc, she pulls out all the stops and treats the listener to an amazingly conceived recitation of her prose, sans any music. "Gravel" has to be heard to be treasured. All I'll say it involves Native Americans and their ponderings while gazing at the preposterous faces blasted into their mountain homeland, aka Mt. Rushmore. Rock And Roll doesn't know how lucky it is to have Exene Cervenka injecting her arch intelligence and dissent into its bang-fest. This disc is a genuine masterpiece, pure and unsimple.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Whicked, September 14, 2003

By 

Hilda (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old Wives Tales (Audio CD)

This is a really good CD. Loads of good songs.
Exene has a great voice and the lyrics are
awesome. I cant really explain why, but the
songs sends shivers down my spine. My favourite
is definatley Biggest Memory, it makes me so
happy. I just smile and sing at the top of my
voice.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exene shines on this one, June 15, 2007

By 

Lyfguard1 (Logan, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old Wives Tales (Audio CD)

This is a masterpiece that many people don't know about. It is beautifully written, performed, recorded and produced from start to finish. If you are a fan of Exene, then you are a fool if you don't own this one. 'Nuff said ...