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The Young Fresh Fellows - Totally Lost Audio CD

A fair review of the The Young Fresh Fellows "Totally Lost" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Young Fresh Fellows reviews here, or go back to the The Young Fresh Fellows tabs.

The Young Fresh Fellows Band: The Young Fresh Fellows
Title: Totally Lost
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Release Date: 1990-07-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Everything's Gonna Turn Out Great 2: Failure 3: Universal Trendsetter 4: Don't Look at My Face You Might See What I Mean 5: I'd Say That You Were Upset 6: No Help at All 7: No One Really Knows 8: Little Softy 9: I Blew My Stack 10: Take My Brain Away 11: Celebration 12: Picky Piggy 13: Totally Lost [Complete Version] 14: You're Not Supposed to Laugh 15: World Tour '88

I don't know what you guys are talking about
If this is their worst CD, I can't wait to see what the other ones are like. This is the first Young Fresh Fellows CD I've bought, and I love it.


Buy it used
I would suggest This One's For The Ladies, or any one of their other albums. Who would really rate the Fellows but their fans? And you read the reviews and we're all basically saying the same thing: you should have it because the Fellows rock, but in the grand scheme of things, all their other albums are better. But pick this up eventually, because the Fellows guarantee a smile, even when they have songs like "Take My Brain Away" on them. You will never see a better live show than the Fellows. I can only hope you already own a few better records.


Not a great record? ( Compared to what?)
This is a solid record, anything with 7 great songs on it is usually 4 or 5 more great songs than most other. . . Anyway, my point is, of the 15 tunes 1/2 are really good and to me that's worthy of making note, think of it as a world class EP and skip the 3 or 4 songs that don't do it for you.

Keep in mind, it's hard to find music in the style anymore, kinda like the Byrds with a sense of humor, maybe that's not a good description but you'll see what I mean when you buy it, and you will buy it.


The worst of the Fellows (but still worth it for a fan)
That's not to say that's it's a total dud all the way through; there are plenty of songs to like. This is probably the weakest of the Young Fresh Fellows' albums. "Celebration," "You're Not Supposed To Laugh," and the theme song all rank among the Fellows' best work, and "The Universal Trendsetter" and "I'd Say That You Were Upset" exemplify the kind of humor that was so pervasive on the band's earlier albums. Many of the tracks on here just don't grab me, however. Some are fairly boring, and others are noisy without saying much. That's not to say that you won't like them (they've been growing on me), but this probably shouldn't be your introduction to the wonderful world of the Young Fresh Fellows. Get it after you're familiar with the group's better work.


Not the most accessible YFF CD
It's still a great album, but it's a little less creative, playful, fun, exuberent and, well, interesting, than their earlier work. This, the Young Fresh Fellow's 4th studio recording (circa 1988), is probably their 5th best album, after the first 3 and This One's For The Ladies. As the band admitted in the original LP liner notes, success hadn't hit, they were still holding onto their day jobs ("we have our degrees to fall back on") and about to go through a roster change (original guitarist Chuck Carroll would leave to be replaced by the Fastbacks' Kurt Bloch). If not Totally Lost, they were definitely searching, and some of them were racing into their 30s when they made this. It shows.


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