Soul Coughing

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Product Details

* Audio CD (September 27, 1994)
* Original Release Date: September 27, 1994
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Warner Bros / Wea
* Catalog Number: 45752
* ASIN: B000002MUG
* Average Customer Review: based on 50 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,242 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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Where the '60s had a fair amount of great blue-eyed soul, the 1990s had been remiss in offering up first-rate, blue-eyed hip-hop--until Soul Coughing came along. Frontman M. Doughty shied away from the label, dubbing the quartet's music "deep slacker jazz," which actually kinda fits tracks like the film noir homage, "Screenwriter's Blues." Doughty's acerbic, often hilarious (see "Casiotone Nation") rhymes--which never sound like he's trying to be too streetwise--float like butterflies over the sting-like-a-bee rhythm section of Sebastian Steinberg and Yuval Gabay. Add the unorthodox sampler technique of Mark de Gli Antoni, and you have a total package that you'll never tire of unwrapping. --David Sprague
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
It is 5am..and you are listening .to Los Angeles!, October 20, 2002
Reviewer: M. S. Tucker "subversive snot" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This CD is an absolute MUST for those of you who have ecclectic tastes in music, i.e. an open-mind.

These guys put forth the most amazing array of jazz/soul/electronica/rap/spoken word you can imagine. This being the first CD in there catalouge is the roughest, which is good.very very good!

Every song is pleasing, big bass, incredible lyrics that paint fantastic pictures and a bit of bizzarre casio-tones thrown in for good measure..just to keep you on your toes.

I so wish they hadn't parted ways as the are even more phenomenal live!

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
If you miss it, you have only yourself to blame, May 8, 2000
Reviewer: "sc_demandred" (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
First of all, let me lay to rest the notion that Soul Coughing's five-star ratings are artificial. This band was easily one of the most creative, innovative and interesting to hit pop radio in twenty years. While they are (obviously) beyond some people's ken, those of us who like them understand their achievements. Never has a band blended poetry, hip-hop, rock, folk, blues, techno and more into such a wonderfully quirky and listenable mix as Soul Coughing, and frankly, I despair of seeing such creativity again now that they are gone.

Ruby Vroom contains some of the most memorable songs I have ever heard. "True Dreams of Wichita" is a wistful love song that conjures up ghostly images of a small town in Kansas. "Uh Zoom Zip" is a super-charged bass grooving song whose words are a nonsense-jam of epic proportions. "City of Motors" tells a sinister story of a cat burglar and a witness who tells all... "BlueEyed Devil" tells the tale of a travelling salesman who ODs on the floor of a motel bathroom.

The best-known song from this record is "Screenwriters' Blues", the epic snapshot of Doughty's imgagined life as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. The song is rife with imagery that contrasts the negative aspects of Hollywood and the L.A. scene with the beauty the city often exhibits. When I saw Soul Coughing in San Fran two years ago, they opened with this song to amazing effect. The entire audience was singing along.

I personally don't think this band is very much like Cake; you may be disappointed if you buy the record on such a recommendation. I think Soul Coughing cannot be pigeonholed in any way, nor can you point to any one band that might have heavily influenced them. In a wasteland of bad pop bands, Soul Coughing was an oasis of beauty and originality. Rest assured, we are poorer as a nation for their breakup.

Bottom line: if you are open-minded and appreciate originality, I think you will like Soul Coughing. Ruby Vroom is as good a place to start listening as any.… (plus d'informations)