Exotic Creatures of the Deep

by Sparks

Exotic Creatures of the Deep cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 May 2008
  • Label: Lil' Beethoven
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:00:39
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Russell Mael, Ron Mael, Tammy Glover, Dean Menta

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing the massive creative renaissance initiated by 'Lil' Beethoven', the Mael brothers deliver an incredibly bombastic, structurally absurd collection of avant-garde pop. The songs revolve around obsessively repeated lyrical phrases, operatic piano, and bizarre conceptual narratives involving talking monkeys and hallucinated pregnancies. It proved the veteran duo's capacity for sharp, brilliant eccentricity remained entirely undiminished nearly forty years into their career.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, melodic, choral, witty, satirical

Tracklist

  1. Intro (1:01)
  2. Good Morning (3:53)
  3. Strange Animal (5:45)
  4. I Can鈥檛 Believe That You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song (3:54)
  5. Let the Monkey Drive (4:09)
  6. Intro Reprise (0:24)
  7. I've Never Been High (4:31)
  8. (She Got Me) Pregnant (4:13)
  9. Lighten Up, Morrissey (4:14)
  10. This Is the Renaissance (3:45)
  11. The Director Never Yelled 'Cut' (3:54)
  12. Photoshop (4:01)
  13. Likeable (6:16)
  14. Brenda is Always in the Way (4:03)
  15. Islington N1 (2:34)
  16. Mr. Hulot (1:37)
  17. I Am a Bookworm (1:32)
  18. Where Would We Be Without Books (0:45)

Credits

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