Wonderwall Music
1. Microbes – Oh the ear piercing Indian snake charming instrument. It’s a cross between a siren and Yucko singing. I’m 20 seconds into this and I’m p*ssed off already. Horrible. Just a bunch of noises with a constant sitar loop in the background.
2. Red Lady Too – I really dig the bass part played on the piano for some reason. The brushes sound good on the snare. A pretty decent little dity. Nothing great for sure, but at least its music in the bigger sense.
3. Tabla and Pakavaj – The sitar loop again accompanied by massive Indian percussion that speeds up in the end for a huge cluster. At least its short.
4. In The Park – The stringed instrument that starts the song off is nice. The sitar playing sounds like a tuning session before you actually start playing it. Percussion comes in around the 1:30 mark, that adds to the song. Again, I don’t know the name of the stringed instrument that’s being played (not the sitar), but its cool. All in all, not my cup of tea and way too long.
5. Drilling A Home – Cool 20’s or 30’s ragtime jam. Something old Paul would relish in im sure. Great piano playing. Horn comes in at the :54 mark. 1:05 song changes tempo. Thunder and rain in the background. Dig the sax. 2:15 song changes tempo again. Maybe its not the tempo, but it just comes in again after a short stoppage. The skipping record ending is neat I guess. I admit that this song is a guilty pleasure of mine and I find it to be easily the best thing on this record, but that’s not hard to do.
6. Guru Vandana – Damn if the beginning of this song doesn’t remind me of the Benny Hill theme song. Its just the ear piercing snake charming instrument again with the sitar loop. Horrendous.
7. Greasy Legs – Starts with a building noise that I can only explain as it sounding like a huge bee buzzing. 0:35 mark a piano or synthesizer plays with a flute coming in a tad later. Just noises really. Horrible once again.
8. Ski-ing – Actual real drumming with some electric guitar on top of the sitar loop. Lead guitar noodling with the rhythm guitar playing the same thing over and over again. Pretty tasty lead playing though (Clapton?). Don’t know who it was. Regardless, its short and senseless.
9. Gat Kirwani – Some pretty quick sitar playing with fast percussion in the background. I guess I’ll just never like Indian music, because this sucks too. Really short and that’s a good thing.
10. Dream Scene – Harp or that danged Indian string instrument I don’t know the name of, strums in the beginning with some fading in and outs of some other Indian instrument. There is singing in this and it would have been better served without. Sounds like a 70 year old guy singing jibber jabber through a 1920’s radio. A girl sings too that sounds like something off of those Japanese monster movies. 2:28 the song changes with a piano and the snake charming instrument with bits and pieces of drums and flute fading in and out. 3:25 it changes again with a something that sounds like a dying trumpet. A harmonica, sax, and siren comes in a little later along with a guitar and mumbling. This is just a mess and I cant take it anymore.
11. Party Seacombe – Acoustic guitar with some drums and a cool bass line. Electric guitar comes in and plays some. Organ also plays. 1:15 the tambourine starts playing. This whole song reminds me of Flying off of MMT. Nothing really happens during the song except for constant noodling, but its not a chore to listen to like most of the rest.
12. Love Scene – More Indian music that doesn’t make sense. Constant sitar plucking on top of the sitar loop. Percussion comes in at the :40 mark or so. All these songs sound just like ‘Within You Without You’ to me. That’s not a good thing.
13. Crying – Painful is the only words I can think of. Was Yoko on this track? Crying is what I’m doing right now.
14. Cowboy Music – A Happy Trails beginning. The plodding country song. Harmonica and electric slide guitar with accordion in background. No thanks.
15. Fantasy Sequins – The snake charmer again. Seriously, it sounds like a dying cat. :45 organ and Indian cymbals come in. Its short and not much to it.
16. On The Bed – A trumpet on top of a guitar plodding loop. Some bass comes in for a few seconds. :55 drums come in. Song just keeps building layers of different instruments and things. For some reason this is tolerable to me. It’s the trumpet melody I think. Short once again.
17. Glassbox – Just more Indian music. It all sounds the same so there’s no use in trying to explain it any further. Garbage.
18. Wonderwall To Be Here – Piano, drums, and a Moody Blues organ sounding like strings behind it. A tiny cymbal or chime keeps getting hit that detracts from listening to the other instruments. So short it doesn’t matter.
19. Singing Om – Great, singing out of key with an organ in the background. Like monks chanting. Flute comes in and takes a solo. More lame singing. Sounds like when your at the doctors office and he tells you to say AHHH when he sticks the dispenser down your throat. At least it’s the last song.
What kind of a person can sit down and enjoy this crap? 19 #$%^ing songs. Thanks George. I hate when its work to listen to any album. This one is work. I’m not a fan of his Indian music and this thing has loads of it. I forgot that I liked ‘Drilling A Home’ so there was at least one positive to this experience. The sad thing is this record is better then ‘Electric Sounds’ and I know that its next. Damn me for being a collector. Back to the dust bunnies for this one.
