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- Date Released: January 1, 1993
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative, Indie Rock
- Label: Spunky Monkey Music / IODA
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R. Stevie Moore's first CD release (hence the punning title), 1993's Contact Risk is one of the New Jersey-based D.I.Y. auteur's most enjoyable compilations. Reaching all the way back to "Ill (Worst)," a Syd Barrett-like 1968 home recording by the then-16-year-old Moore's first band, the Marlborough, Contact Risk delivers 21 tracks of quirky but immensely enjoyable art pop. Most compilations sampling the literally hundreds of homemade cassettes for sale through the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club tend to focus on one aspect or another of Moore's musical personality, be it his talent for super-catchy pop songs, his skill at constructing bizarre sound montages, or his Bonzo Dog Band-like facility at dadaist genre parody. Contact Risk hits all three and adds a few more for good measure. Like the pop songs? Contact Risk includes Moore's very best, "Play Myself Some Music," a heartbreaking ode to the restorative powers of pop that predates Nick Hornby's High Fidelity by a full decade, along with twisty gems like "Under the Light," which would fit on a Wings album, and the insistently bouncy "You Love Me, Do Something." Prefer the weird things? Try the synthesizer solo "Sponge Bath" and the three-part "I Could Be Your Lover," spoken word surrealism that's alternately hilarious and chilling. Meanwhile, Moore essays Barry White-style loverman-rap ("Times Have Changed"), Buck Owens-style country ("Elation Damnation"), and hip-hop ("Oil"), as well as a few of his more traditional solo acoustic folk-style songs. The only problem with Contact Risk for longtime R. Stevie Moore fans is that over a quarter of these songs have appeared on previous vinyl artifacts; while having them in improved digital fidelity is nice and all, Moore has written so many brilliant songs that it would have been easy to find some more obscure gems.
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| 01. |  |
Your Dancing Ears |
5:37 |
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| 02. | |
Under The Light |
5:11 |
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| 03. | |
I Could Be Your Lover (Pt. 1) |
0:56 |
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| 04. | |
Elation Damnation |
3:21 |
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| 05. | |
The Clinch |
2:27 |
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| 06. | |
Sponge Bath |
1:01 |
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| 07. | |
Can't Afford No Food |
1:56 |
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| 08. | |
Times Have Changed |
4:43 |
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| 09. | |
Ill - Worst |
2:39 |
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| 10. | |
You Love Me, Do Something |
4:53 |
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| 11. | |
I Could Be Your Lover (Pt. 2) |
0:55 |
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| 12. | |
Pledge Your Money |
3:35 |
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| 13. | |
You Can't Write A Song |
4:19 |
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| 14. | |
Oil |
8:24 |
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| 15. | |
It's What You Do, It's Not What You Are |
4:19 |
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| 16. | |
Alecia |
5:46 |
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| 17. | |
I Could Be Your Lover (Pt. 3) |
1:07 |
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| 18. | |
I Like To Stay Home |
4:15 |
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| 19. | |
No Know |
2:59 |
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| 20. | |
Hours Of Delight |
1:35 |
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| 21. | |
Play Myself Some Music |
3:43 |
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21 Total Tracks, 73:41 Total Length
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Credits
- R. Stevie Moore - Synthesizer // R. Stevie Moore - Guitar (Acoustic) // R. Stevie Moore - Bass // R. Stevie Moore - Guitar // R. Stevie Moore - Percussion // R. Stevie Moore - Piano // R. Stevie Moore - Drums // R. Stevie Moore - Guitar (Electric) // R. Stevie Moore - Vocals // R. Stevie Moore - Main Performer // R. Stevie Moore - Loops // Andrew Gill - Liner Notes // Harry Hirsch - Mastering // Roger Ferguson - Guitar (Acoustic) // Roger Ferguson - Vocals // Jack Barron - Liner Notes // Frank Balesteri - Percussion // Frank Balesteri - Sound Effects // Frank Balesteri - Vocals // Frank Balesteri - Voices // Frank Balesteri - Effects // Jerome Bunke - Design // Mark Cudnik - Drums // Ron Dvoric - Guitar // Ron Dvoric - Guitar (Electric) // George Louvis - Saxophone // H.D. - Liner Notes // Victor Lovera - Voices // Lee Miller - Drums // Jim Price - Guitar (Acoustic) // Jim Price - Drums // Chris Bolger - Engineer
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