Retro Rocket Back to Earth / Rides Again

Legendary Stardust Cowboy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 12, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Last Call Records
• ASIN: B0009299CE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,046 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Bladerunner

2. Linda

3. Geiger Counter

4. Westward Creek

5. Stealth Cowboy

6. Earthquake

7. Credit Card Blues

8. I Hate CDS

9. There'll Be Hot Coffee

10. The Magic in Your Eyes

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Relaxation

2. Ride a Tractor

3. Someone Took the Yellow from My Egg

4. Pahrump

5. World's Worst Titles

6. Red Telephone

7. Idiots Running Sideways

8. Arise!

9. Red Eyes

10. Saturn

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Paralyzed" With Identifiable Words, January 28, 2006

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This review is from: Retro Rocket Back to Earth / Rides Again (Audio CD)

The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (or simply "Ledge") is one of the most amazing singers ever recorded professionally. I have been a fan ever since hearing him belt out his classic "Paralyzed" years ago. This is a two CD set featuring 25 new songs by the Ledge. They are all manic or at the very least strange. Most are amusingly listenable although I did not find the power ballad (of sorts) "Linda" very palatable for some reason.

I found the extremely jarring and disjointed "Geiger Counter" and "Egyptian Maiden" to be among the most entertaining tracks, while I found the spoken word (song-poem?) "Someone Took The Yellow From My Egg" to be perhaps the strangest thing I have ever heard on a commercially released CD (that is not to say it's good, it is one of the less inspired songs on the set, actually, but it is very peculiar.) My favorite song on the CD has to be "World's Worst Titles" a song of song titles too bad or strange for even the Ledge to use (for example, "My Baby is Shaped Like an Ironing Board"). For pure surrealism set to music, look no further.

The package is quite nice and includes a lengthy pamphlet (some of which is in French!) describing the life of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and true fans will not want to miss it. These recordings will never have wide commercial appeal, but like all good outsider music, that inherently is their appeal. I recommend this CD set to anyone who wants to broaden their musical horizons beyond the mundane.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best collection of the Ledge available today, January 22, 2008

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Michael A. Duvernois (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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"World's worst titles" is nearly the perfect song. And these disks go on and on with little gems from the massive arsenal of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. This is outsider music. Definitely know what you're getting (try youtube) before buying, but this is the best collection available at the moment so if the Ledge is your thing, you should buy this.