Tally Ho!

Wagon Christ

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 6, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B00000D9VK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #171,093 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Named for a Robert Crumb character, Wagon Christ is a combo of crackpot British tinkerer and ingenious sound sculptor, a jungle and trip-hop outcast jamming with a juvenile, sex-crazed clown. Pals with fellow lunatics Aphex Twin (Richard James) and Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson), Wagon Christ (Luke Vibert) is nobody's sampling fool. Rather than use the "Apache" or "Amen" loop for the zillionth time, he creates stuttering beats and surreal string arrangements from dilapidated funk and '60s orchestral honchos Arthur Lyman and Serge Gainsbourg. Tally Ho! could be heard as an orchestral-jungle joke, but deeper listening reveals more than jungle's tired dance-floor demeanor. Christ weaves friendly organs, harrumphing Humpty Dumptys, balmy strings, Mad Max techno, and horror-movie samples together like Lawrence Welk dropping acid with Flavor Flav. "Memory Towel" recalls a Disneyesque nightmare, "Lovely" combines cooing Caribbean females with rubbery, roller-rink ska, "Juicy Luke Vibert" lampoons a lurid sex act for one. Tally Ho!--better to fungle in the jungle than dance with the dead. --Ken Micallef

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Tally Ho! is colorful and vivacious. The title track provides succinct evidence of this album's nature (along with song titles like "Piano Paya Hata") with elements both beautiful and absurd joined together with no ulterior motive other than fun.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A tonic, February 2, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Sheffield, England) - See all my reviews

This album is a gentle Sunday drive through space while eating a delicious sherry trifle! Well, each to his own. However you want to think about it, you will love this record. It's fun, easy listening, bouncy music which will lift your spirits whatever mood you're in. That's not to say it lacks depth, it's just that the varied emotions present are all positive. Luke Vibert has given us this beautiful album with all his love.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Piano Playa Lover, March 16, 2000

By	Toby Huntington (London, UK) - See all my reviews

Luke Vibert (deranged genius trading as Wagon Christ) is THE only bearded Cornishman you should allow to whisper sweet nothings in your ear. The reason for this is simple - the sweet nothings, accompanied by fairground ride-style organ music and stuttering beats make up "Juicy Luke Vibert", just one of the playful, bouncy tracks Vibert has created for Tally Ho! The overall feel of the album is happy and warm, so the occasional scream jarrs badly, and there is a strange vein of sexual perversion running through it, too. Maybe I was a little hasty in trusting Vibert...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My mama even say he funky., December 4, 1998

By	S. Fry (my hizzy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I swear to God, can any one human possibly make better music than Luke Vibert? If you've heard any of his [plug] stuff and you liked it, then you should put on your superman underoos and warm your mouse finger up cause you'd better order this cd right now from amazon.com. This cd will provide endless hours of pure listening bliss and giggly-wiggly laughter with all your schoolgirl friends and family. Have a Luke Vibert party and play this cd. Tell all your friends. Spread the word. Tell everyone that the wagon messiah has come again to save us! Do whatever it takes to support this chronic-smoking loop happy cornish lad with a gift for making incredibly magnificently utterly meaningless music. The time has come!!!