Songs for Swinging Larvae

Renaldo & The Loaf | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: T.E.C. Tones
• ASIN: B000001QC8
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,025 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lime Jelly Grass

2. A Medical Man

3. Bali Whine

4. Kimbolton Gnome Song

5. Frass

6. N2O (Going Under)

7. B.P.M.

8. Spratts Medium

9. Honest Joe's Indian Gets the Goat on the Way to the Cowboy's Conga

10. Ow! Stew the Red Shoe

11. Bustle the Burgoo

12. Is Guava a Donut?

13. A Sob Story

14. Hats off, Gentlemen!

15. Renaldo's Trip to Venice

16. Ted's Reverie

17. Melvyn's Repose [*]

18. Metro Stomp [*]

19. The Bathroom Song [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely Unique and Wonderfully Strange, January 8, 2002

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"pzmolek" (Cape Girardeau, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs for Swinging Larvae (Audio CD)

I am amazed that this album has been re-issued as a CD. I guess there must be a few other folks besides me who understand the brilliance at work here. Very witty stuff here that relies on the musicians' creativity rather than their access to a big production budget. Their other albums got slicker and more produced so they lost that wonderful sick sound. This is a must listen for anyone who is interested in pop music on the edge - fans of Capt. Beefheart, Zappa, Zorn, Mr. Bungle, etc. might be open-minded enough to understand the inspired weirdness of Songs for Swinging Larvae. I think this album is more extreme and, at the same time , much more listenable than any of the Residents' stuff.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant!, April 13, 2006

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J. Gustavson (Travelling) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs for Swinging Larvae (Audio CD)

I think it is to miss the mark to call RATL "unique" as for ideas. They were admittingly inspired by the early Residents. This is easily heard. And nothing wrong with that. That does not hold back the fact that they had their very own signature on their works, as well as some very own ideas.

After repeated listenings to RATL over the years, as well as frequent watchings of their Ralph videos, I have come to lift this british duo to great heights. One might wonder what could have become of them if they had kept bringing recordings out. It is so SAD they disbanded!

If you're new to RATL , start anyplace, all they did is 5 stars, and so great. And then get all you can. Do not miss out their co-work with the Residents: Title in Limbo.

Hat's off gentlemen!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite albums by a great forgotten band, January 13, 2006

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x y "Amazon shopper" (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs for Swinging Larvae (Audio CD)

I find Renaldo and the Loaf so much more listenable and humorous than the Residents or any of their other labelmates on Ralph Records. This album says "no synthesizers were used," but you'd never know it. All sorts of different world instruments, noises, sound manipulation and tape loops with crazy lyrics.