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Loudon Wainwright - Attempted Mustache

Loudon Wainwright III
Attempted Mustache

In performance, mugging and clowning, Loudon Wainwright has the ability to transmute pathos and desperation into a Chaplinesque comedy of self-ridicule that is immediately funny and ultimately compassionate. Thankfully, the contradictory elements also come through on record.

Most of Attempted Mustache was recorded in Nashville with producer Bob Johnston, and though it may be Loudon's best album to date, it is hurt by the fact that his voice is mixed down and smoothed out. Though he shows himself to be at home in the country-rock idiom ("A.M. World" and "Nocturnal Stumblebutt"—fine songs with strong arrangements), the pure essence of Loudon is still to be found in simple acoustic
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Such a setting graces the album's six-minute highlight, "The Man Who Couldn't Cry," the absurdist, atheistic story of a contemporary Job: hilarious, heartbreaking and in the end profoundly cynical. Like most of Loudon's best material, "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" is more a monologue than a song. What little melody exists is there to accommodate the narrative and Loudon's intensely acted and sung rendition.

The song underscores a theme that is recurrent throughout the album and indeed through the whole Wainwright canon—the problem of expressing in a palatable and constructive way a fiercely exacerbated emotional life tethered by Yankee scruples. Interestingly, the album's one failure, "Clockwork Chartreuse," is a dramatic monologue with a rock setting in which the narrator espouses random violence as the way to catharsis.

On the other hand, Loudon's songs about the catharses of sports and alcohol are triumphs. "The Swimming Song," which has an ingratiating banjo-guitar backup, exalts the physical act of swimming as a necessary emotional release while also ridiculing it as therapy:

Salt my wounds, chlorine my eyes

I'm a self-destructive fool

.... This summer I might have drowned

But I held my breath and I kicked my feet

And I moved my arms around.

"Down Drinking at the Bar" is as terrifying as "Swimming Song" is engaging. As recorded here it is a slice of pain and resentment that leaves a lasting impression—like a revelation spewed by a Eugene O'Neill character. Other topics Loudon considers with characteristic irony are stardom ("A.M. World" and "Liza"), fashion ("Bell Bottom Pants") and religion ("I Am the Way").

Mercifully, the album's last cuts, both of which deal with fatherhood, balance tenderness and love against the preceding acerbity and nihilism. "Dilated to Meet You" is a gentle invocation to an unborn child. With his wife, Kate McGarrigle, whose lovely folk ballad, "Come a Long Way" is the album's one cut not written by Loudon, he sings: "We really think you'll like it here/We hope that you'll like us." "Lullaby," the finale, is sung to the same child, now born. In his finest vocal to date, Loudon evinces the extreme vulnerability and capac

Artist	Title	Condition	Format	Price USD [Change]	Seller	Location
Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Loudon Wainwright - Attempted Mustache Upc: 886972418025 Swimming Song A.m. World Bell B Sb...	Brand New	CD	$4.53	BetamOnline	USA
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Columbia32710 Columbia	VG+	LP	$9.50	Weird Harold	USA
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Cbs	vg/ex	LP	$16.80	Acousticsoup	UK
Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Cbs	vg/ex	LP	$20.17	Acousticsoup	UK
Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache		LP+CDR	$49.95 - $73.95	cdBBQ	USA
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Lp And Digitally Remastered Audiophile Cd. Professional Artwork, Track Listing, Cd Jewel Case Etc Special Order	New	LP+CDR	$54.45	Vinyl Revolu	USA
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Moustache Columbia	ex-/ex	LP	$16.80	Acousticsoup	UK
Loudon Wainwright	Attemped Mustache 12 Track Cbs Records 1973 S 65837 Stereo Pressed In Uk Ex Ex		LP	$48.01	VinylUK	UK
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Swimming Song A.m. World Bell Bottom Pants Liza I Am The Way (new York Town) [live] Clockwis...	New	LP	$20.08	hhv.de	Germany
Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Label: Cbs Records, Published: 1973 Netherlands, Cbs Records, S 65837-1, 1973	C:VG,M:NM	LP	$21.15	recordsale	Germany
Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache 12 Track Cbs Records S65337 1973 Right Hand Corner Of Sleeve As Damage Vg Ex		LP	$32.01	VinylUK	UK
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Mustache Us, Columbia, Kc 32710 -	EX+	LP	$45.15	Vinylshop	UK
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Loudon Wainwright	Attempted Moustache Edsel, Ed 269	Vg+ Ex	LP	$11.04	Memories	UK
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Wainwright,loudon	Attempted Mustache Columbia Records.	VG+	LP	$7.56	GrooveNet	USA
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