Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera

by The Tiger Lillies

Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:38
  • Community rating: 3.44/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Tiger Lillies recorded 'Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera' as the songs for their stage adaptation of the Struwwelpeter tales. Martyn Jacques's falsetto and the trio's dark cabaret instrumentation give the cautionary tales a macabre, vaudeville character.

Genres

Descriptors: storytelling, conceptual, vocal, fantasy, suite, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. The Struwwelpeter Overture (1:57)
  2. The Story Of Cruel Frederick (4:17)
  3. The Dreadful Story About Harriet And The Matches (4:58)
  4. Bully Boys (2:20)
  5. The Story Of The Man That Went Out Shooting (4:37)
  6. Snip Snip (2:51)
  7. Augustus And The Soup (4:50)
  8. Fidgety Phil (3:40)
  9. Johnny Head-In-Air (3:26)
  10. Flying Robert (5:15)
  11. Shockheaded Peter (2:27)

Credits

  • Martyn Jacques - primary artist, accordion, voice, music by, adapted by
  • Graeme Gilmour - banjo, clarinet
  • Heinrich Hoffmann - written-by [struwwelpeter]

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