Bad Pumpkin
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Bad Pumpkin |
| type | album |
| artist | Fetchin Bones |
| cover | Fetchin Bones - Bad Pumpkin.jpg |
| released | 1986 |
| length | 37:01 |
| label | Capitol |
| producer | Don Dixon |
| prev_title | Cabin Flounder |
| prev_year | 1985 |
| next_title | Galaxy 500 |
| next_year | 1987 |
| :: |
| name = Bad Pumpkin | type = album | artist = Fetchin Bones | cover = Fetchin Bones - Bad Pumpkin.jpg | alt = | released = 1986 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 37:01 | label = Capitol | producer = Don Dixon | prev_title = Cabin Flounder | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = Galaxy 500 | next_year = 1987 Bad Pumpkin is the second album by the American band Fetchin Bones, released in 1986 through Capitol Records. The band supported the album by touring with R.E.M. They briefly broke up a short time after its release.
Production
The album was produced by Don Dixon. "Chitty Chitty" was inspired by the theme to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Critical reception
|rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = The Globe and Mail wrote that "the sound is American hip country punk with a comic twist." The Los Angeles Times determined that the album "retains the raucous garage-band sensibility of last year's debut, Cabin Flounder, while expanding the Bones' eclectic-and eccentric-tendencies." The Vancouver Sun concluded that "Hope Nicholls sounds a lot like Patti Smith, and Fetchin' Bones has the energetic freshness of a new wave band, circa 1978." The Providence Journal noted that "the pop ingenues of one track become artful satirists on others, tossing in backwards tape effects, disco whistles, demented Dylanesque harmonica, diabolically scratchy violin and deep, gloomy backup vocals that sound like medieval chanting."
Track listing
All songs written by Fetchin Bones
| headline = Side one | title1 = Leaning on the Horn | length1 = 2:59 | title2 = Little Red Lines | length2 = 3:13 | title3 = Bed of Seems | length3 = 3:09 | title4 = Flounder | length4 = 3:47 | title5 = ½ Past | length5 = 4:03
| headline = Side two | title1 = High Noon | length1 = 3:59 | title2 = Greensburg | length2 = 2:53 | title3 = Wine | length3 = 4:40 | title4 = Tag Along | length4 = 2:40 | title5 = Chitty Chitty | length5 = 2:51 | title6 = All Clocks | length6 = 2:47 | total_length = 37:01
Personnel
;Fetchin Bones
- Gary White – Lead Guitar, Bass, Vocals
- Aaron Pitkin – Guitars, Backing Vocals
- Marc Mueller - Drums, Percussion
- Danna Pentes – Bass, Violin, Backing Vocals
- Hope Nicholls – Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion ;Additional musicians and production
- Don Dixon – production
References
References
- (7 Nov 1986). "Carolina cow-punks ready to cut loose". Toronto Star.
- (October 10, 1986). "Bad Pumpkin? Say What?". The Charlotte Observer.
- (Dec 27, 1986). "Fetchin Rattles Some Bones".
- (4 Mar 1988). "Fetchin Bones". Toronto Star.
- "Fetchin Bones".
- (February 1, 1987). "Dixon's style is producing some winners". The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- "Bad Pumpkin". AllMusic.
- (6 Nov 1986). "Bad Pumpkin Fetchin Bones". The Globe and Mail.
- (20 Dec 1986). "Fetchin Bones Upgrades Its Position". Los Angeles Times.
- (24 Jan 1987). "Fetchin Bones: Bad Pumpkin". Vancouver Sun.
- (November 6, 1986). "Pop Music: 2 groups whoop it up beyond Southern rock". The Providence Journal.
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