Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order

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Free Music Review: Three times the charm
Hit: 5 Stars

For those of you who aren't familiar with Oysterhead, it is the pairing of three rock geniuses in my book. Trey Anastasia from Phish, Les Claypool from Primus, and Stuart Copeland from The Police. If you like Phish, you'll love the album; if you like Primus, you'll love the album; and if you like The Police.... okay there isn't much reminiscent of The Police but you'll still love the album; and if you don't like any of those three groups, chances are you will still love the album it's that diverse.

It's hard to describe the music really. First off, it varies so much from song to song that no one adjective will work. If you had to try and describe the music it would have to be something like Funk/Rock and still that doesn't do it justice.

The highlight of TGPO is by far and away Pseudo Suicide. If you haven't heard me raving about this song before I don't plan on stopping now. It is the Song of the Year and if Radio was half of what it should be, it would be the number one single on the charts. Then there is the self-titled cut, "The Grand Pecking Order", which sounds like "Yellow Submarine" if it had been dragged through hell first and then reeled up onto the album. Not to mention Mr. Oysterhead which sounds like a kindler gentler Iron Man with a twist of acid rock. But this in no way a one single oriented album, it is fun, and jams from start to finish. There are even GASP, guitar solos and not to mention (god bless them) a political anthem "Wield The Spade". Not a mushy anthem like MTV's "What's going On", but a thought provoking, read between the lines, I'm fed up with the way things are going anthem.

The Rhythm Section in Oysterhead is terrific (too be expected) and the mixing by Toby Wright is perfect. As far as the lyrics go, well here is a sample from "Rubberneck Lions":

Rubberneck lions as I lie in bed
Double barrel under the pillow under my head
You don't wake a man when he's trying to be dead
Cause of the rubberneck lions as I lie in bed
Rubberneck lions as I lie in bed
I bought a cactus from a miser named Fred
I choose to live off of water and bread
Cause of the rubberneck lions as I lay in bed.

I could literally go on and on about the album; but I will just let the fact that it is my pick for album of the year do the rest of my talking. If you can only buy one CD for the rest of the year, I definitely recommend The Grand Pecking Order.

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