Audio CD review:
Heavy Vegetable - Mondo Aqua Kitty

Heavy Vegetable - Mondo Aqua Kitty

Band: Heavy Vegetable Title: Mondo Aqua Kitty Rating: Release Date: 2000-01-13 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Love American Style 2: Baby 3: Doesn't Mean Shit 4: St. Livingston 5: Slint on 4 6: Green Light Gorilla 7: On Purpose 8: Eggy in a Bready 9: Perfect Love - Heavy Vegetable, Residents 10: Excesses - Heavy Vegetable, Klark Kent 11: Crash 12: Times Up - Heavy Vegetable, Residents 13: Over Two Minutes 14: Saloon 15: Recycle Song 16: Longsleeves (Stupid Motherfucker) 17: Daisy 18: Seesaw 19: Crackling Mexican Jesus Candle 20: Love American Style

Beneath the fan-intensive scraps remains interesting ideas With his earlier outfit, Crow could cultivate his fun, though smart brand of rhythmically relentless ditties. The fractured, largely acoustic, pop zaniness was an obvious benchmark for songwriter Rob Crow's assured evolution with the band Pinback. Mondo Aqua Kitty will not shine compared to more focused studio material, but for a collection of b-sides, alternative takes and what-not, the album presents a compelling exploration into the composers determined approach of attacking traditional form. Unfortunately, the 20+ tracks tend to meld into a sound too fast, quirky, and underdeveloped to prove enveloping, but the minority of varied material does sometimes pull out impressively written, fully developed songs. Best left for fans, but interesting enough to appeal just enough to the warped folkie in us all. . mediocre there are a few good songs (st livingston is one of the catchiest HV songs ive heard) but overall Mondo Aqua Kitty pales in comparison to their studio albums. if you really love heavy vegetable then i guess you might like this collection of unreleased tracks, b sides, acoustic versions of classic HV songs, etc. You can see a complete list of all Heavy Vegetable discography, or go back to the Heavy Vegetable tabs