Assorted Creams [Import]

Product Description
Debut album by group featuring The Posies' Ken Stringfellow on vocals with company from Let's Active's Mitch Easter (noted producer of early R.E.M. material) and various Australian indie pop scenesters. 15 tracks. Comes packaged in a gatefold mini LP sleeve. 1997 The Orange Humble Band/ Half A Cow Records release.

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Average customer rating: Power/Pop Classic Great album!!! Should have been huge!!! Leanardo Da Vinci Leanardo Da Vinci A flawed Masterpiece: elegant and passionate power pop.

Assorted Creams The Orange Humble Band Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Traffic and Weather ASIN: B00000I2CV Release Date: 1998-03-03

Tracks:

1. Fanclub Requiem
2. Down in Your Dreams
3. Sleepin' in My Caravan
4. It Doesn't Matter
5. Spindizzy
6. Anywonder How
7. Can't Get What You Want #1
8. Little Picture Story Book
9. Katie Said So
10. Cherrytime
11. Rainin' Like Soft Fun
12. Hello Emptiness
13. Think I'm Gonna Get You (Oh Dwight)
14. Apple Green Slice Cut (Tamra Tamla)
15. Through Your Veins

Album Description

Debut album by group featuring The Posies' Ken Stringfellow on vocals with company from Let's Active's Mitch Easter (noted producer of early R.E.M. material) and various Australian indie pop scenesters. 15 tracks. Comes packaged in a gatefold mini LP sleeve. 1997 The Orange Humble Band/ Half A Cow Records release.

Album Details

Side Project of Ex- Posies Member Ken Stringfellow and Daryl Mather. Produced by Mitch Easter.

Customer Reviews:

Power/Pop Classic.......2002-10-12

Being a huge fan of The Posies I found The Orange Humble Band while searching for projects Ken Stringfellow had been involved in... and was I ever pleasantly surprised after listening to this album. Surprised that I had never heard of the band before, and equally surprised that Stringfellow seems to be only a hired voice having nary a song credit on the album.

Daryl Mather's songs are wonderfully catchy, even Beatlesque (the most overused adjective in power/pop). This is the closest collection of music I have ever found to The Posies "Dear 23", especially "Anywonder how" and "Can't get what you want #1".

A great album all around, can't wait to pick up the new album.

Great album!!! Should have been huge!!!.......2002-05-04

The Orange Humble Band's _Assorted Creams_ is a great power pop album chock-full of songs that would be hits if someone could successfully expose them to a mass audience.

I really don't know much about this band other than that their songs are good. It appears that this band may be a one off project because one of the members is a famous record producer and another is already involved in another band that has released a few albums since this one was released.

Songwriter guitarist Darryl Mather appears to be the head man in this group because he wrote or co-wrote every song. Former REM producer Mitch Easter co-produced the album with Mather and also plays guitar. Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, who is a fine songwriter in his own right, doesn't contribute any songs, but does a fine job of singing lead vocals on these great Darryl Mather compositions.

The jangly _Down In Your Dreams_ is a fine song that would be at home on the Beatles _Rubber Soul_ album or beside the Byrds _Mr. Tambourine Man.

The dreamy _Spindizzy_ is kind of reminiscent of Big Star's _Kangaroo_.

On _Little Picture Story Book_; the song, its arrangement, and even Ken Stringfellow's voice bring back memories of big rock ballads by Freddie Mercury and Queen.

_Cherrytime_ looks back longingly on the Mather's youth.

This is a great pop band whose style is kind of like if you mixed equal parts Beatles, Big Star, and Queen, and then added a little touch of the 60s Motown girl group sound for extra seasoning.

I mentioned my very favorite songs, but all of them are good! I hope this group manages to resurface again with another album. If not, I hope that Darryl Mather manages to write as good of an album with the next band he's with.

Power pop fans should search low and high until they find this album! It might be one of the top ten or fifteen that the genre has ever produced!

Leanardo Da Vinci.......1999-05-03

A work of art. But there is more to follow, new album to be released at the end of the year.

Leanardo Da Vinci.......1999-05-03

A work of art. But there is more to follow, new album to be released at the end of the year.

A flawed Masterpiece: elegant and passionate power pop........1998-10-02

Darryl Mather, power pop genius, has taken eight years to finally release some sort of follow up to the rich and expressive Someloves one and only album, "Something Or Other".

Combining the talents of Ken Stringfellow from the Posies, legendary producer Mitch Easter and an entourage of fine Australian talent from all fields of music, the album has class and guts.

This is an album for those people who appreciate the punch and freshness of pure power pop (check out 'Fanclub requiem' and 'It doesn't matter'), the ease and charm of modern intelligent country ('Apple green slice cut (Oh Dwight)') and the introspective and sophisticated ballad ('Spindizzy' and 'Cherrytime').

This is to my mind a labour of love. No fancy video, no promotional tour, no charismatic front man barnstorming the media, no fanclub, just music: pure and simple.

Music like this restores my faith in music for its own sake and not music as a fashion statement.

Listen, love and learn.

Average customer rating: Power/Pop Classic Great album!!! Should have been huge!!! Leanardo Da Vinci Leanardo Da Vinci A flawed Masterpiece: elegant and passionate power pop.

Assorted Creams Orange Humble Band ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items: Traffic and Weather ASIN: B00000DA67

Album Description

Debut album by group featuring The Posies' Ken Stringfellow on vocals with company from Let's Active's Mitch Easter (noted producer of early R.E.M. material) and various Australian indie pop scenesters. 15 tracks. Comes packaged in a gatefold mini LP sleeve. 1997 The Orange Humble Band/ Half A Cow Records release.

Album Details

Side Project of Ex- Posies Member Ken Stringfellow and Daryl Mather. Produced by Mitch Easter.

Customer Reviews:

Power/Pop Classic.......2002-10-12

Being a huge fan of The Posies I found The Orange Humble Band while searching for projects Ken Stringfellow had been involved in... and was I ever pleasantly surprised after listening to this album. Surprised that I had never heard of the band before, and equally surprised that Stringfellow seems to be only a hired voice having nary a song credit on the album.

Daryl Mather's songs are wonderfully catchy, even Beatlesque (the most overused adjective in power/pop). This is the closest collection of music I have ever found to The Posies "Dear 23", especially "Anywonder how" and "Can't get what you want #1".

A great album all around, can't wait to pick up the new album.

Great album!!! Should have been huge!!!.......2002-05-04

The Orange Humble Band's _Assorted Creams_ is a great power pop album chock-full of songs that would be hits if someone could successfully expose them to a mass audience.

I really don't know much about this band other than that their songs are good. It appears that this band may be a one off project because one of the members is a famous record producer and another is already involved in another band that has released a few albums since this one was released.

Songwriter guitarist Darryl Mather appears to be the head man in this group because he wrote or co-wrote every song. Former REM producer Mitch Easter co-produced the album with Mather and also plays guitar. Ken Stringfellow of the Posies, who is a fine songwriter in his own right, doesn't contribute any songs, but does a fine job of singing lead vocals on these great Darryl Mather compositions.

The jangly _Down In Your Dreams_ is a fine song that would be at home on the Beatles _Rubber Soul_ album or beside the Byrds _Mr. Tambourine Man.

The dreamy _Spindizzy_ is kind of reminiscent of Big Star's _Kangaroo_.

On _Little Picture Story Book_; the song, its arrangement, and even Ken Stringfellow's voice bring back memories of big rock ballads by Freddie Mercury and Queen.

_Cherrytime_ looks back longingly on the Mather's youth.

This is a great pop band whose style is kind of like if you mixed equal parts Beatles, Big Star, and Queen, and then added a little touch of the 60s Motown girl group sound for extra seasoning.

I mentioned my very favorite songs, but all of them are good! I hope this group manages to resurface again with another album. If not, I hope that Darryl Mather manages to write as good of an album with the next band he's with.

Power pop fans should search low and high until they find this album! It might be one of the top ten or fifteen that the genre has ever produced!

Leanardo Da Vinci.......1999-05-03

A work of art. But there is more to follow, new album to be released at the end of the year.

Leanardo Da Vinci.......1999-05-03

A work of art. But there is more to follow, new album to be released at the end of the year.

A flawed Masterpiece: elegant and passionate power pop........1998-10-02

Darryl Mather, power pop genius, has taken eight years to finally release some sort of follow up to the rich and expressive Someloves one and only album, "Something Or Other".

Combining the talents of Ken Stringfellow from the Posies, legendary producer Mitch Easter and an entourage of fine Australian talent from all fields of music, the album has class and guts.

This is an album for those people who appreciate the punch and freshness of pure power pop (check out 'Fanclub requiem' and 'It doesn't matter'), the ease and charm of modern intelligent country ('Apple green slice cut (Oh Dwight)') and the introspective and sophisticated ballad ('Spindizzy' and 'Cherrytime').

This is to my mind a labour of love. No fancy video, no promotional tour, no charismatic front man barnstorming the media, no fanclub, just music: pure and simple.

Music like this restores my faith in music for its own sake and not music as a fashion statement.

Listen, love and learn.

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