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Dead Dog's Eyeball Reviews
Dead Dog's Eyeball Reviews
| 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful  Great!, By A Customer This review is from: Dead Dog's Eyeball (Audio CD) Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #36 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Spin (11/94) - Highly Recommended - "...This is gorgeous, throat lump-inducing music....McCarty fleshes out Johnston's home-recorded sketches into an eclectic assortment of torch ballads, guitar rockers, and beer-hall sing-alongs, and beguiling art pop..." Melody Maker (8/12/95) - "...Other people have tried covering Daniel's songs before...mostly without much joy. Maybe they've all been in too much awe. Kathy treats Daniel's songs with due reverence, love and humour--and one helluva kick in her voice..." New Musical Express (8/19/95) - 8 (out of 10) "...brilliant...Songs that were once skeletal, lo-fidelity, bedroom-with-tape-recorder affairs become full blooded and experimental....if these songs were Kathy's she'd be on the same magazine covers as Liz Phair..." Entertainment Weekly (11/25/94) - "...Singer Kathy McCarty, formerly of Glass Eye, pays... Read more 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful Destined for Greatness, By This review is from: Dead Dog's Eyeball (Audio CD) If you haven't already heard of this album -- you will. Here in the Philadelphia region we have a great radio station 88.5 WXPN out of the University of Pennsylvania. I was just out of high school when this album came out ca. 1995. While working at some crappy mall music store called "Tape World" I had access to all sorts of catalogues and could choose whatever I wanted.So XPN was playing "Walking the Cow" and "Rocketship" pretty often and I took the chance on this album and I have loved it ever since. I have been a singer/songwriter since age 15 and I was immediately drawn to the sharp lyrics and strong arrangements which are as varied as the subject matter. Trust me and the other reviewers this album is WORTH IT. If you don't love every song right away, play it tommorow and the next day and see if you don't love every song by the weekend. You will if you like classic rock and folk music - Kathy even tosses bluegrass, jazz and blues in for good... Read more 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful jazzy, heartfelt, eclectic--quite wonderful, By This review is from: Dead Dog's Eyeball (Audio CD) Ms. McCarty's interpretation of these Daniel Johnston songs are unconventional, intriguing and quite lovely. Desperate Man Blues probably was written in a fit of depression, and yet Ms. McCarty's crooning and marvelous piano playing gives it a magical consoling touch. Other songs like Baby in my universe use sound effects to provide an eerie claustrophobic touch. The songs seem so incidental and improvisational (like "running water"), and yet sounds like "Golly Gee" mellow out the mood. And other songs like "Walking the Cow" and "Monkey in a Zoo" have lyrics that are so strange that it almost seems meaningless (it almost hearkens back to David Byrne's own absurdist lyrics in "Once in a Lifetime" or "Strange Ritual." The only criticism of the album is that the tone of the album is not really consistent. It is not really a unified album but a hodgepodge of songs. A personal anecdote. I listened to this CD to death while... Read more |
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