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Music to Eat

Hampton Grease Band Format: Audio CD
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Halifax
2 Maria
3 Six
4 Evans

Disc: 2

1 Lawton
2 Hey Old Lady/Bert's Song
3 Hendon

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.83 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Music
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 21, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Music
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000002BFJ
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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The Oddball
5.0 out of 5 stars Ah, the memories ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022
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The Hampton Grease Band played a dance in the North Springs High School gymnasium in 1971, when I was a long-haired freshman. The guitarist, Glen Phillips, periodically jumped off the speakers. Bruce Hampton, the lead singer - well, he had the mic so we figured he must be the lead singer - held a can of spray paint in his hand and read the directions. I've never seen a band clear a dance floor so quickly, before or since. God bless 'em.
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Floating World
4.0 out of 5 stars Spanish guitar influences
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2022
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I had the double LP record long ago. The most remembered cut was ‘Maria’, a brief Latin-style tune [explicit scenario]. The two guitarists are very skilled at their techniques between psychedelic and Spanish-flavored riffs. The band as a whole can compare with other Southern rock greats but the lead singer has an Appalachian hillbilly screech. Great long cuts but in need of a good vocalist. Like ‘Maria’, ‘Evans’.
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Thomas B. Cox
5.0 out of 5 stars Proof that the world is in a sad state
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2002
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Yes, it must be considered proof positive that Planet Earth is in serious karmic arrears when this great album rests at the bottom of the musicical ocean. This was a band with a vision. They had a mission. When they used to play live, guys with chain saws would sometimes crank up behind them on stage. And not only that-----their twin guitars were as hot as the Allman Brothers, and Bruce Hampton's songwriting was as distinctive as....uh, Bruce Hampton's songwriting. I don't know who else to compare it to. THIS is a CD we should send into outer space. It would amaze any aliens out there, and send notice that there's hope for Planet Earth.
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Mr UR
5.0 out of 5 stars Indescribable spontaneous effluence art.
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014
I saw Hampton Grease Band many times during the summers I spent as a street hippie in Atlanta. If ever there was a spontaneous/instantaneous fusion of guitar and rhythm section based music with spoken word performance art, the Hampton Grease Band was it.
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sailadams
5.0 out of 5 stars 10 St and Hampton
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013
I remember seeing Bruce and the band very up-close at a coffe-house at Tenth and Peachtree... one of my favorite evenings out. A professional musician from Macon "borrowed" my vinyl double-album, and I miss having the big artwork.
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Paul j Knotts
4.0 out of 5 stars It was a love, hate relationship.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014
Bought this on vinyl back in 1972 in a Cut Out Bin in a local discount store for $1.99. The cover art and the title " Music To Eat" told me this was not going to be a normal listening experience, and suspicions were dead-on. It is one of those records that drove me crazy one minute, totally confused the next, and later completely digging the humor and exploration. It is only for those music fans that like to be surprised, challenged, appreciate the unconventional, and have a lot of patience.
I did find a surprising alternate use for this record in the 70's. If you have guests that you want to leave your premises, just put on "Music To Eat". It never failed, everyone decided they had somewhere else to go. Sadly, I sold my copy to a friend of a friend. I told him the power this album had on unwanted guests, and he had to have it. I have regretted it ever since. Time to buy the CD.
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John Geneve
5.0 out of 5 stars Completely original and ahead of its time...
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2005
The second-worst selling album in Columbia history (behind a yoga record) is one of the most original rock records you'll ever hear. It's hip, virtuosic, funny, rockin' and has a freshness that still holds up 30+ years after the fact.

I was given a vinyl copy of this in the late 80s as a gift. I had never heard of these guys and was quite intrigued with all of the artwork and the song titles. I sort of groaned at the length of the songs, some running 17 minutes, and thought this was probably another out-dated psych/ Dead-type jam record. Upon my first listen I was changed. The songs all have tons of character and narritives that are labourous and everything is surprisingly listenable, even with different sections and interludes and time signature changes, etc.

I would recommend this to anyone searching for something truly original. It's a great record, not just a novelty item infamous for its commercial underachievements.
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Fatewarns
5.0 out of 5 stars Unknown guitar classic
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2002
This is the second lowest selling record in Columbia record's history (beaten only by an instructional yoga record.)
Hampton Grease Band were an excellent Zappa/Beefheart influenced outfit who were, and still are very underrated. Their music can be described as top of the line blues based guitar jams with a Dave Thomas/Captain Beefheart cross singer singing, screaming, yelping, and moaning. Halifax starts this out somewhat normal, and it has lots of singing by Bruce Hampton, but when hes not singing, the guitar completely stands out from the instrumentation. Maria is probably the most accessible song on the record, while the following tracks Six and Evans are 2 fine pieces of jamming, Evans in particular having some fiery guitar.
Disc 2 starts with the solo guitar improvision Lawton, and proceeds to Hey Old Lady/Bert's Song, the most aggressive song on the CD, with Hampton yelling furiously while the guitars rip everything in their path. The final track Hendon is probably the most inaccessible song here, as it starts off with Bruce yelling out SPRAYCAN!, reading off a spraycan label for the lyrics. The final ten minutes are still another example of the talent this short lived band had.
This album's meat is definitely the guitarists, just ripping through all the way, with nary a dull moment to spare...any lover of Zappa, Beefheart, or the guitar really has no excuse to not own this album.
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The Lone Groover
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes Please.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013
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Tired of sanity? Lost in the horror of a world being taken over by the X factor and The Voice? Life seeming a little hum drum? Buy this, turn up the volume, turn out the lights and reality will recede into a distant ugly memory as the Hampton Grease band take you on a journey to God knows where or what, but enjoy the ride, dig the view and by the end of side four (or CD two) you will never be quite the same again.
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