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Black Side
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Yellow Side
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| A classic album. The Flowers practically redefine the Viking Barbershop Cyberthrash genre with the breakthrough 1997 release of If Everyone Were Dead. Cat Farm is the most dancable song ever written, and the grooves of Are You Mad, Mr. Hooper? will stick with you for years. The Flowers show their wide-ranged musical skills here, however, with both historic anthems (The Civil War) and hard rock (Dead in a Ditch, etc.). In fact, this album is so good, it destroyed my tape player. A must-have for any Flowers of Disgust collector. |
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Gold Side
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Gold Side
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| The Flowers of Disgust continued to develop the genre with their second release, Diggin' For Gold. The sound is cleaner, due to the controversial use of a device known as a "four-track" on this album. Much like Bob Dylan going electric, this incited a riotous schism within the fan base of the Flowers. Regardless, this album is full of classics. The Flowers preform their first love ballad on this album (As If Everyone Were Dead), go spiritual (Magic Boots), political (The Block Schedule Song, Save Dave, Everybody Hates Kyle Waugh), and shred eardrums with A Most Unpleasant Sight. This album also begins the trend towards Spice Girls, though without bees and robots, it is obvious that the Flowers had not yet reached musical maturity with this album. Regardless, this is a unique blend of songs from the multifaceted, obviously high-cultured Flowers. |
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Act I
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Act II
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Act III
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| Finally, in late 1998, the Flowers fans got their
first mind-blowing listen to the long-awaited concept piece ButtHouse.
Though some fans were disappointed that certain characters, such as Deceptichrist,
did not appear in ButtHouse, this is nevertheless a momentous work.
ButtHouse is the concept piece against which all other concept pieces
will be measured and, inevitably, fall far short of the stereo masterpiece
that is this album. Following the story of Mark Beard, the listener
actually feels as if he or she is in the ButtHouse. Once you
listen to this album, there is no backing down -- you will reach a new level
of awareness never before believed possible. In addition, ButtHouse marks the first time that robots play an important role in a Flowers album. This is a sure sign that the Flowers of Disgust are approaching musical maturity. Furthermore, the obvious messages in Uncle Wiggly's adventure about the futility of life in our cyclic universe serve to increase the potency of ButtHouse as a whole. This is the Flowers at their best to date. |
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White Side
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Blue Side
Theory Experiment Mistake |
| Released at the same time as ButtHouse, The Viking Trail is one of the finest acheivements of the Flowers of Disgust. They have finally realized the depth of bees and robots, and it shows! The Viking Trail is to Diggin' For Gold what the nose-harp is to the bagpipe. This album showcases the Flowers at their finest, between moving, piano-accompanied pieces (Mrs. Bonnie Winston), Spice Girls songs (Geri), dance songs (The Gravity Dance), miniature concept pieces (The Electric Pancake Saga), two covers (Can't Get Enough Of Your Love and Beautiful Life) and one of the greatest Flowers songs ever, the undefinable, transcendent CatFishMan. This album has everything.. bees, robots, Spice Girls and bears. Get this album or revoke your status as a Loyal Flowers of Disgust Fan. |
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Heart Side
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Star Side
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| Secret Friends is yet another masterful work by the Flowers of Disgust. It contains, among other things, the only remains of the never-released albums Kristmas and the anti-Sosland anthology. Despite the fact that the Spice Girls suprisingly have no place on this album, this is another fully matured work (Honeythunder, It Was a Robot Producing Planet Like Any Other). In a Chair, The Ballad of King Mu of Chou, 'Tis the Season, and especially Spikes Go Up; Man Falls Down were all instant classics; Spikes Go Up; Man Falls Down went to number one almost immediately after the release of this album. Buy this album, pleasing to all five senses, today. |
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Gravelly
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Bloody Side
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| The most recent Flowers release, Cat Farm fully lives up to it's lofty name. There are many biting satirical looks at America here, obviously remnants of the bands disillusionment with society after the only moderately successful Flowers of Disgust: World Tour '99. Songs such as Hand-and-Toe-Hold Trails, Rainy Day in Hot Dog City, Truck Driving Over Rough Terrain and Cosmic Keys to My Car and House all state this glaringly obvious theme of the album over and over, in one way or another. But don't think that this album is all wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Mouth is the Gate of Woe, Lo A Reed Has Grown Piercing the Leg, and Tongue-Kissing Jesus paint a completely different picture. The Flowers continue to please, avoiding classification by straddling every genre ever thought of. If you don't love this album, you may well be deaf. |
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Roofers
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The Power of Love
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Gentlemen's
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| The Three Fanciful Daydreams of Chef Paul Prudhomme. A true modern classic, and the first concept album by the Flowers since the astounding Butthouse. Despite the tough precedent, 3FD fully lives up to and exceeds expectations. Roofers is the Flowers at their all-time best, and The Power of Love and Gentleman's Music are not to be taken lightly either. Although this album is probably too cerebral for a new Flowers listener (Butthouse is perhaps a better introduction to the genre and the band), 3FD should be able to find a place in the hearts of dozens, if not hundreds, of devoted Flowers of Disgust fans. |
Mister Horse, Give Up Those
Oats! (2000)
CD Release
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1. Baby of Love 2. You're a Sweet Sweet Sweet Potato 3. Dee-dicky-dum (death comes to all who love) 4. Is there a Doctor in the House? 5. Absynthe, Meade and Moonshyne (whoop, wyvern, whoop) 6. Girlfriend on Fire 7. I'm Looking Forward To Living Together with you in Happiness 8. Eliminator Boat Duel 9. Events as a Horse 10. The Steth-O-Scope Song 11. Kiss |
[meanwhile in a secret room]
13. Salsa Til U Die 14. Ondine is Dead 15. Man Glues Nose Closed 16. Order for the Visitation of the Sick 17. Up a Gum Tree 18. The Mountain of Skulls (your mama don't mind) 19. The Sea King's Gift 20. Ask Mr. Doctor 21. Thou Shalt Suffer 22. Fuck No, Baby! 23. Brass Horse Road |
| Without a doubt, Mr. Horse, Give Up Those Oats is one of the most remarkable albums produced by the Flowers this year. Many fans of the Flowers claim a favorite song in this album. Some classic examples: Girlfriend on Fire, Salsa Til U Die, I'm Looking Forward to Living Together with you in Happiness, the Steth-O-Scope Song, the exquisite cover of Kiss, Ondine is Dead, etc. On the other hand, the Flowers use the full capacity of the new "optical-audio" medium, leaving plenty of room for some of the fan's least favorite songs, such as Fuck No, Baby! and Events as a Horse. You win some and you lose some, but the consensus is you just can't go wrong with this album. |
Stink Rock Island (2000) CD Release
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1. Stink Rock Island Suite a. stink rock island b. groove it c. sioux snake shake dance [trad.] d. round & round (goes the old machine) e. bob the big boring buffalo that nobody cares about 2. Nothin' (goin' on) 3. The Buffalo Winds are Blowing, The Buffalo Winds are Blowing 4. Mucho Orangutang |
5. You Are Not My Girlfriend Anymore 6. Nuts & Birds 7. Seafood Magic 8. Way Out Back at the Chicken Shack 9. Jesus Christ: Workin' for the Man 10. Your Dog is a Big Dog Special Bonus Tracks: |
| Released within months of Mr. Horse, Give Up Those Oats!, Stink Rock Island is everything that Mr. Horse wasn't. In particular, Stink is a coherent, intricate album which was meticulously composed and executed. It is, therefore, something of an anomaly. Surely the best way to describe this album is in the words of Flowers member Colin Borin: "We've finally succeeded in making an album which all of the Flowers like and all of the fans hate." Stink Rock Island has been described by critics as a "Viking Trail for a new, more disillusioned generation." Though it split the Flowers fanbase as viciously as Diggin' for Gold did way back in those fatal months of '98, a single bad word cannot be spoken against this album. |
Flowers of Disgust Go The Distance! (2001) CD Release
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1. My Fellow Americans 2. Leave, Attractive Girl 3. Brodie's Horse Farm 4. Everything Sounds Bad, No One Looks Good, and I Hate You 5. No One Sweats Alice Ugly 6. [filler] 7. Machine Falls from Sky, New Leader Established |
8. Seven Fruity Buns 9. Zero Unicorn 10. Flowers of Disgust Lie to Girls 11. She is Sad That She is Pretty 12. Dance Song 13. I'll Go Digging |
| "If there has been a way to build it, there will be a way to destroy it." Certainly this is true in the case of the Flowers -- the chasm between fans which was introduced by Stink Rock Island is patched in one fell swoop by this astounding album by the seeminly invincible Flowers of Disgust. Go the Distance! is a soulful, moving album that reflects on the history of the band (Dance Song, I'll Go Digging, My Fellow Americans) while simultaneously looking to the future (Machine Falls from Sky, New Leader Established, Flowers of Disgust Lie to Girls, Brodie's Horse Farm, etc.). And what a bright future indeed! This, the 10th release by the Flowers, leaves the lucky listener with no regrets. One can only hope that the Flowers can sustain this level of musical perfection into the next, hotly awaited album. |
Freak Ass Bitches On My Rooftop (2002) CD Release
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1. Into the Vast Unknowable Seas of Despair
2. Into the Shop Where Potatos Are Sold 3. Down the Jolly Slippery Pipe You Go 4. The Great Depression 5. Across Tha' Globe (Girl Iz Fresh) 6. Hair, Chair, Everybody's Falling Down the Stairs 7. Stupid Rain 8. No Fun Dogsled Ride |
9. Two Horses Pull Cart On Dirt Road,
Start and Stop (Over Rough Terrain remix) 10. Sad Day for the Union Man 11. Danny Gibson Shops at the GAP 12. By God, I'm a Fine Gentleman 13. Yap Island 14. The Maiden is Naught But Swine 15. When I Get My Hands On Her 16. Doctor Jones 17. Lust & Desire |
| New release, review soon! |