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Tracklist (CD)
| | Ride 1 | | | | 1 | | Fox Hills | | 0:29 | | 2 | | Father Popcorn | | 3:28 | | 3 | | Lime Green Sweater | | 3:40 | | 4 | | Is This The Single? | | 3:53 | | 5 | | Watering Hole | | 3:56 | | 6 | | The Teardrop Explodes | | 2:42 |
See more tracks | | Ride 2 | | | | 7 | | Astro Sister | | 2:20 | | 8 | | In Time All Time | | 3:16 | | 9 | | Out Now | | 3:37 | | 10 | | I'm Sebastian Cabot | | 2:56 | | 11 | | Bong Song | | 4:40 | | 12 | | Bermuda Love Triangle (The Waterbed) | | 8:48 |
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Review
If The Negro Problem had chosen a different name, they would probably be more famous now -- although the fact that their leader is a large forty-one-year-old black man with odd facial hair named Stew means they were unlikely to become TRL favorites under any guise. This Los Angeles band performs excellent psychedelic pop songs in the tradition of Robyn Hitchcock and XTC; its third record, Welcome Black, is wry and lovely and sad, often in the same song. There isn't as much overt comedy as usual, but many of the best songs marry tunes worthy… Read More of Burt Bacharach to amusingly self-conscious lyrics ("I'm Sebastian Cabot in your dreams/I'm Sebastian Cabot - what's that mean?"). So it shouldn't be any surprise to learn the title of the record's catchiest song, the one with the glossiest production: "Is This the Single?" GAVIN EDWARDS
(RS 908 - October 31, 2002)
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