Ruby Vroom

by Soul Coughing

Ruby Vroom cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 September 1994
  • Label: Slash
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:21:55
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Charles Tobias, Sam H. Stept, Yuval Gabay, Chester Burnett, Lew Brown, Toots Hibbert, Raymond Scott, Mark De Gli Antoni

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Ruby Vroom' is a brilliantly eccentric debut that merges beat poetry, jazz-rock, and alternative hip-hop into a unique urban soundscape. M. Doughty's deadpan, rhythmic delivery and the band's playful use of surreal sampling result in an abstract and highly sarcastic underground classic.

Genres

Descriptors: leftfield, rhythmic, sampling, funky, talk-singing

Tracklist

  1. Is Chicago Is Not Chicago (3:48)
  2. Sugar Free Jazz (3:55)
  3. Casiotone Nation - Live (3:50)
  4. Blueeyed Devil (4:12)
  5. Bus To Beelzebub (4:34)
  6. True Dreams of Wichita (4:59)
  7. Screenwriter's Blues (5:04)
  8. Moon Sammy (4:09)
  9. Supra Genius (3:58)
  10. City Of Motors (4:38)
  11. Uh, Zoom Zip (3:56)
  12. Down To This (3:49)
  13. Mr Bitterness (5:19)
  14. Janine (4:58)
  15. Buddha Rhubarb Butter (3:29)
  16. Murder Of Lawyers (7:12)
  17. Amy Fisher (2:23)
  18. Theme From Rachel鈥檚 Sitcom (1:05)
  19. Screenwriter's Blues - Mood Swing Mix (6:28)

Credits

  • Soul Coughing - primary artist, producer, written-by
  • Kim Champagne - art direction, design
  • Frank Riley - booking
  • Monterey Peninsula Artists - booking
  • Rit Venerus - coordinator [album administration]
  • Sebastian Steinberg - double bass [upright bass], backing vocals, double bass, background vocals vocal
  • Yuval Gabay - drums, backing vocals, drums (drum set), background vocals vocal
  • John Paterno - engineer [second]
  • Steve Wacksman - illustration
  • Mark De Gli Antoni - keyboards, sampler, backing vocals, background vocals vocal
  • Elliot Groffman - legal [legal scrutiny]
  • Jim Grant - management
  • Roger Cramer - management
  • Seriously, Inc. - management
  • Kenndal Lynn Andrew - model
  • Anthony Artiaga - photography by, photography
  • Annalisa - photography by [band photos], photography
  • Tchad Blake - producer, recorded by, mixed by
  • Mike Doughty - voice [speaks], vocals [sings], electric guitar, vocal
  • Raymond Scott - written-by
  • Charles Tobias - written-by
  • Chester Burnett - written-by
  • Lew Brown - written-by
  • Sam H. Stept - written-by
  • Toots Hibbert - written-by
  • James McLean - recorded by
  • Rachel Benbow Murdy - vocals [answering machine vocal], composed by [answering machine vocal]

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