Crackpants! - Shortcut

Product Description
Progressive Techno Classical Funk Rock

Crackpants! - Shortcut,Sexual Pantalones

Average customer rating: Awesome Band, Awesome Music Damn good hometown band respectable Masterful, breathtaking, raucous, complex, delicious. Best.....album.....ever!

Crackpants! - Shortcut ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005V9EC Release Date: 2001-10-10

Tracks:

1. Happys Hype Beat
2. Gunters Awakening
3. An Introduction to the Space Traveler Opus excerpt 193 take 45
4. All Wet
5. Why so Failure, Fatty?
6. Magic Attack Part I
7. Magic Attack Part II
8. Magic Attack Part III with a brief recapitulation
9. I love it when you talk nasty!
10. Diddly, Diddly, Diddly, Diddly
11. An Evil Guide to Home Repair
12. Jiminys Rummage
13. This old Rocketship
14. Eric Ate my Techno Beans!
15. Electric love in Samuels teeth
16. $5.04 Steak
17. $5.04 Chicken
18. Harmonic Sexual
19. (self-titled)
20. Another Chase in Shaftsbury
21. Funkitosiz in the Rosez
22. Uh-oh the Good Captain has Gotten into the Kool-aid
23. Clubbin it Schizo
24. Prelude to Sassafrass Root Mayhem
25. When Sassafrass Attacks
26. Beauty Waits for No Living Carcass
27. Interectile Smashingness
28. Worries for Biscuits of Yesteryonder
29. War
30. Minuet de los Muertos (Warts!)
31. Les Furies
32. Les Furies (reprise)
33. Exercise
34. Melpig
35. Pentaquintasential Interstate Latin Attack

Album Description

Progressive Techno Classical Funk Rock

Customer Reviews:

Awesome Band, Awesome Music.......2003-11-09

These guys are so creative! I am amazed... The Frank Zappa influence on they're sound is very obvious. I saw them at Battle of the Bands, where they played a fun, crazy show, and i just decided to check out they're cd. The first time I heard it, I was... well, confused. But I listened to it constantly after getting accustomed to the unique sound. They have a funky fun style that will get you dancing, and listening to the funny tale of Dinglebum's journey, spoken in true Zappa-like style. The tunes and the beats are just so catchy and incredible, I can't get enough! Buy this cd, you will be entertained, I promise!

Damn good hometown band.......2003-09-15

... one of my first memories was going to the Battle of The Bands and seeing the sex pants for the first time...playing completely different music that is unfortunately not on this cd. Still i have to give props to the crack for getting a cd made even if it isn't quite the same as the live show. ...

respectable.......2003-08-28

this cd is reallly good. You'd think these guys werent in highschool when they made it.

Masterful, breathtaking, raucous, complex, delicious........2002-01-24

Crackpants, a division of Sexual Pantalones, has tested its incomparable mettle with the production of the astonishing aural experience that is 'Shortcut'. Building on (and occasionally surpassing the quality of) obvious 1970s progressive-rock influences, these fine gents have assembled a collection of songs and interludes that has a non-stop flow similar to that of The Avalanches' 'Since I Left You' and Olivia Tremor Control's 'Black Foliage'.

While different from those records in a genre-related capacity, 'Shortcut' garners comparison to them once more by making myriad stylistic leaps and bounds; songs like "Magic Attack, pt. II" are executed with instrumental virtuosity, running the gamut from solemn balladry to pounding semi-metal and back again, all within the confines of a few minutes. The narrative of the tale (which, admittedly, sometimes takes a backseat to the layers upon layers of instruments) is always interesting and oft-humorous as the cicumstances of the hero's journey lead him to many a tawdry lair and into a few sticky situations as well.

Following the 32 tracks of 'Shortcut' album proper, The Sexual Pantalones make an appearance in full five-piece form, playing through 3 songs which fail to fully encompass their live capabilities, but are a delight nonetheless, as well as a fitting end to a record of unmatched variety and endless twists & turns.

Put simply (or rather, semi-obliquely), 'Shortcut' is an amazing record that this reviewer might compare to a studio session between Frank Zappa, Steve Howe, John Cage, Gruff Rhys, and Thomas Dolby where the snack table consists of nothing but Pop Rocks and Sprite.

Best.....album.....ever!.......2002-01-23

Crackpants just happens to be... the very definition of coherent entertainment. Just because some folks lack the sufficient intellect to comprehend this glorious work of electro-rock spectacle, does not mean that it is not just that. To all those contemplating the perchase of this latest Sexual Pantalones opus, do not be swayed by Mister Bad Taste's pretentious dribble,for he is obviously more interested in review writing than album listening. Crackpants, aside from Radiohead, System of a Down, The Strokes, Bjork and a very few other artists, was the only current musical group to release anything worth listening to in 2001. I can only hope that it is the bandmembers' highest priority in life to release another album this year. So in conclusion, if you have an I.Q. over nine, you will very much enjoy this album for what it is, and not for what future potential you think might come from its creators.

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1. Cravinkel [Import]
2. Decontrol [Import]
3. Disconnection [Import]
4. Down and Dirty
5. En Route
6. Exile [Import]
7. Facelift [Live] [Import]
8. Famous Blue Raincoat [Import]
9. Feel Like Rio [Import]
10. For Approval [Import]

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