Songs of an Impotent Troubadour [Import]

Current 93 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: World
• ASIN: B00000JO38
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #499,650 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tiny Stories, February 6, 2000

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T Bryner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of an Impotent Troubadour (Audio CD)

Buyers should be warned that this album has a lot more talking than singing, but fans of Tiny Tim will enjoy the sweet, endearing stories Tim tells about each of the songs he has written.

This album is exclusively songs Tim wrote himself, and he sings them accompanied only by his ukelele. The earliest of the songs were written in the early 1940's, the latest in the mid-1990's, and almost all were written to girls and starlettes he had a crush on. His casual style of storytelling makes you feel like your listening to a friend, and was a lot of fun to listen to.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tiny Tim's Life and Loves in Song, February 22, 2005

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Robert E. Murena Jr. "tedmurena" (Fairfield, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of an Impotent Troubadour (Audio CD)

Tiny Tim's Impotent Troubadour is a deeply personal glimpse into the life and unrequited loves of the artist. It is a much more introverted yet deeply fascinating retrospective than the VH1 special on Tim. Stretching some 45 tracks, this album includes a lot of monologue and a lot of music most of which he wrote for the women he adored. It is easy to Laugh at Tiny Tim but in giving him a chance it is also easy to appreciate Tim.

Starting off with his crush for a young Elizabeth Taylor, Tiny Tim goes through a long line of crushes and songs he wrote for the girls that caught his fancy. Some of the songs are mere fragments but many are quite good. There are some funny songs including "Santa's got the AIDS this Year" and towards the end the songs focus goes away from women. The final track is a electronic noise album with which it is nearly certain that Tim had nothing to do with. It is an interesting work overall and is a great recording to track the life of a misunderstood man.


I was supposed to see tiny Tim in 1996 since he was to open for Current 93, the leader of which produced this album, but unfortunately he passed away before the show took place. Luckily we have this album which chronicles his life not though years but through songs. It is fun, funny and deeply moving.

Ted Murena

4.0 out of 5 stars Mostly for Tiny Tim Longtime Fans, November 3, 2008

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Phil S. (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of an Impotent Troubadour (Audio CD)

It's hard not to call this "Tiny Tim Unplugged" (although a 1995 album with that title did arrive from an label in Alabama). But this '94 effort is done apprently only for the engineers and othes at the New York Studio, not in a Concert format.
This CD is a nice complement to the book by Harry Stein (Playboy Press, 1976). Tiny's wonderful baritone to falsetto voice box sounds a tad frayed but altogether it hangs in their for many short snippets and for longer, exquisite love letters to his "dreamgirls" of the '40, '50s, and '60s, particularly to "Annie Halsey" and "Tuesday Weld". There's a pretty good poem to a young Elizabeth Taylor; and very strong folk tune called "Whispering Voices", with echos of the gramophone era. A successful meeting of 1914 and 1994.