Songs for Ice Cream Trucks

Michael Hearst

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar/None Records
• ASIN: B000R3486C
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,175 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Snow Cones for Pavlov's Puppies, July 13, 2007

By	My Uncle Stu (Boston) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Yeah, why not?

With all this technology around us, with music coming at us from all angles, why are ice cream trucks still driving around emitting the same twenty second loop of a glockenspiel playing "Turkey in a Straw"? Why not some new music?

Forget the parents, forget the kids, think of the poor ice cream truck dudes. I bet some new tunes would do wonders for their spirits. I don't know how it is in other regions, but out here we have an epidemic of grumpy ice cream men, which can be a bit of a bummer.

Despite the potential, this is not a boring album. Mike Hearst has undertaken an exercise, which is to write music in the spirit of traditional circus music or ice cream truck music, but make it new and refreshing. Listen for yourself, but I think he pulled it off. It's got calliopes, glockenspiels, the occasional choir, in nice little waltzes and foxtrots, and with enough repetition to approximate the simplicity and feel of the more traditional tunes. But he adds enough variation to keep it palatable. Plus, there are some tasty, sinister undercurrents in these compositions, warbling forays into minor modes, to remind us that the ice cream truck is a parasitic capitalist appendage intruding into the naïve serenity of our playgrounds to extort parents and condition the palates of our children.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What the ...???, November 25, 2007

By	A. Heron "ABC" (NYC) - See all my reviews

I heard a bit of this on the radio and was intrigued. I bought it becasue I'm game for the weird and wonderful, but I have to admit it wears thin and boring quickly. Sorry, I wish I had been delighted.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was hoping for..., September 11, 2009

By	Sherian Fletcher (Spokane WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The music on this CD is not like anything I've heard coming from any ice cream truck before. Maybe it's "new age" but I prefer the old time stuff better.