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Something's wrong with the orchestra!
An Alternative Listing
Great music gets Spiked
Excellent anthology, a few weak tracks
Spike for outsiders

Musical Depreciation Revue Anthology
Spike Jones
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000336S
Release Date: 1994-02-22

Tracks:

Clink, Clink, Another Drink
Der Fuehrer's Face
The Sheik Of Araby
Hotcha Cornia (Black Eyes)
Cocktails For Two
Leave The Dishes In The Sink, Ma
Holiday For Strings
Chloe
That Old Black Magic
You Always Hurt The One You Love
Liebestraum
The Glow-Worm
Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)
Laura
Jones Polka
Love In Bloom
The Man On The Flying Trapeze
My Old Flame
All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)
Happy New Year

Tracks:

William Tell Overture
By The Beautiful Sea
III Barkio (II Bacio)
None But The Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta)
Ya Wanna Buy A Bunny?
Dance Of The Hours
Wild Bill Hiccup
Barney Google
Morpheus
Rhapsody From Hunger(y)
Black Bottom
Pal-Yat-Chee
Yes! We Have No Bananas
April Showers
I Went To Your Wedding
Secret Love
I'm In The Mood For Love
Black And Blue Danube Waltz-Paris Symphony (Texas)
The Late Late Late Movies, Part 2
I Only Have Eyes For You

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If timing is everything, then it was doubly so in the music of Spike Jones. Whoopee-cushion horns, gunshots, belches, malapropisms--each element of Jones's parodies fell just right, which is amazing considering that his peak came before the advent of tape allowed for careful editing. Jones and his City Slickers--a group that included the likes of Doodles Weaver and Sir Frederic Gas--engaged themselves in at least as much rebellion against "good" music as did the rock & rollers who followed. In the post-Prohibition love song "Cocktails for Two," for instance, the band is the bunch of drunken revelers a table away. Jones label mates Homer and Jethro deliver one of his most indelible screeds against the highbrow on "Pal-Yat-Chee," while all the most gruesome possibilities of "My Old Flame" are realized in a Peter Lorre impersonation by Paul Frees. The closest modern-day analog to this stuff is perhaps "Weird Al" Yankovic's work, but no one did more to depreciate notes, chords, and pretensions than Jones. --Rickey Wright

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Something's wrong with the orchestra!.......2007-05-14

Spike Jones was the leader of the most successful novelty band of the pre-rock and roll era. He made many hilarious records, and this collection features 40 of them. This is seriously funny stuff, and anyone who is into musical comedy needs to get it.

An Alternative Listing.......2007-05-12

Other than finding an alternative track listing under this simular title "Musical Depreciation Revue: The Spike Jones Anthology", I LOVED IT! Funny ol' stuff, and here's the alternate track listing too:
1. Clink, Clink, Another Drink
2. Der Fuehrer's Face
3. The Sheik of Araby
4. Hotcha Cornia (Black Eyes)
5. Cocktails for Two
6. Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma
7. Chloe
8. That Old Black Magic
9. You Always Hurt the One You Love
10. Liebestraum
11. The Glow Worm
12. Hawaiian War Chant
13. Jones Polka
14. Love in Bloom
15. The Man on the Flying Trapeze
16. My Old Flame
17. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
18. The William Tell Overture
19. By the Beautiful Sea
20. None But the Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta)
21. Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?
22. Dance of the Hours
23. Wild Bill Hiccup
24. Barney Google
25. Rhapsody from Hunger (Y)
26. Black Bottom
27. Pal-Yat-Chee
28. April Showers
29. I Went to Your Wedding
30. I'm in the Mood for Love
31. The Late Late Late Movies, Pt. 2
32. I Only Have Eyes for You
33. Holiday for Strings [*]
34. Laura [*]
35. Happy New Year [*]
36. Ill Barkio (Il Bacio) [*]
37. Morpheus [*]
38. Yes! We Have No Bananas [*]
39. Secret Love [*]
40. Black and Blue Danube Waltz, Paris Symphony (Texas) [*]

Great music gets Spiked.......2007-03-01

RHINO's SPIKE JONES ANTHOLOGY is a comprehensive and hilarious gathering of some of the best City Slickers 1940s and early '50s recordings. With a body of work as extensive as that of Spike Jones, naturally individual favorites might have gotten overlooked, yet no other Jones/Slickers album of this size contains so many super tracks. Sound quality is excellent on these 78 record to digital transfers. A highly informative 52-page booklet completes the package. For all lovers of zany music. Highest recommendation.

TOTAL RUNNING TIMES --
DISC ONE -- 59:28
DISC TWO -- 63:44

Excellent anthology, a few weak tracks.......2004-10-25

During his career and for 20 years after, Spike Jones was criticized as much as he was enjoyed for his crude satires and often puerile humor. But there was a lot more to Spike than just inane humor--his City Slickers were crack musicians who could literally play in any style from Dixieland to classical with the correct figuration.

This collection centers around his most popular recordings for RCA with a few fillers chosen by Dr. Demento. Some of these fillers are excellent, such as "The Sheik of Araby," "Clink Clink Polka," "Jones Polka" and the very rare "By the Beautiful Sea." Others, like "Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?," "Wyatt Earp Makes Me Burp" and the track from the Spike Jones Spooktacular, are quite simply childish with no real musical appeal. I would much rather have had "Chinese Mule Train," "MacNamara's Band" and the hysterically funny "Drip, Drip, Drip [Sloppy Lagoon]" in their place.

The transfers are superb. I had some of these records on the original 78s and can vouch that this is EXACTLY how they sounded. The liner notes are likewise excellent, with complete documentation, rare photos and original record labels (though the record labels are awfully dark and hard to read). Overall, highly recommended.

Spike for outsiders.......2003-01-30

Although this compilation only gets you into the RCA recordings, it's one of the very rare WELL DOCUMENTED albums. This one is an absolute must, along with the "Spiked" album. Yeah!

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