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That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice

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This is reputedly a side project of a Yo Lo Tango member. It's worth it for the title alone, which should get a CD Title of the Year award for 2001. It also aptly describes the contents within - a killer collection of Prince cover tunes. From the great cover of "Poplife" with spare acoustic strumming, to the slow freaky "1999", and everything else in between, this is FUN, melodic music. If you take your rock and pop with a touch of Lo-Fi ambience, a gallon of guitars and honesty, but most all, not too seriously, this might be the one for you. Check it out.

I heard about this project by the Yo La Tango front man a few years ago (I think it was a Fan Club only cassette release or something along those lines). I was curious when I saw it had received a 'commercial release'. This is a great CD - the cover versions contained within are wonderful, lo-fi buzz and acoustic renditions. Particularly superb are the readings of 'Pop Life, Erotic City and the lesser known song 'An Honest Man' - which on this reading sounds strangely like a Neil Young song circa 'After The Gold Rush'(!) very unlike the gospel tinged ballad Prince fans have had on bootleg since 1986. Pick this CD up if you enjoy Mercury Rev, Granddaddy or the Flaming Lips or Yo La Tango. The songs are great - you've heard them all before all but in different versions by Prince...

I loved this so much I bought the CD when I already owned the cassette! Dump's version of "When U Were Mine" is my favorite (although I am still partial to Cyndi Lauper's version) but I am really impressed of his choice of songs. He's got all my favorites here, even "Erotic City". A masterpiece for indie or Prince fans alike.

This is for the people who feel one day some pain,
when it feels the lonelines can really make your heart a piece of darkness.
The songs are very catchy, Prince would be pround with this Disc.
And if you like Casitone sounds, well!
You really need this songs...

Thanx Pacolli
for show me this piece of art
of the nineteeens!!!

As a longtime Prince fan I thorougly enjoyed hearing Dump's take on these Prince classics. Their version of How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore is one of the highlights of this cd.