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- Date Released: March 16, 1999
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: ACM Records / Iris
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Only the Cucumbers' fourth album in nearly 20 years, 1999's Total Vegetility, finds Deena Shoskes and Jon Fried doing what they've done so well all that time: crisp, smart guitar pop tunes with a bouncy new wave feel akin to a female-led version of the early dB's. Unlike 1987's The Cucumbers (and to a lesser extent, 1994's Where We Sleep Tonight), these songs are quite sympathetically produced, with none of the inappropriate slickness that marred the previous records. As always, Shoskes' appealing, helium-pitched vocals and the pair's twangy guitars are at the heart of the songs (also as always, the handful of songs sung by Fried are less appealing), with the careening, swooning opener, "My Birthday," and the moody, strikingly memorable "8500 Million Miles," with its woozy, double-tracked vocals, adding a newfound dose of psychedelia to the proceedings. None of the songs are as immediately appealing as the Cucumbers' classic debut single, "My Boyfriend," but this is probably their strongest and most consistent set of tunes.
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My Birthday |
2:26 |
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| 02. | |
Illegal |
3:19 |
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| 03. | |
Indivisible |
2:37 |
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| 04. | |
Charlie |
2:40 |
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| 05. | |
Into |
4:20 |
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| 06. | |
Neighbors |
2:29 |
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| 07. | |
Subluxation |
0:50 |
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| 08. | |
What Are You Doing? |
4:16 |
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| 09. | |
8500 Million Miles |
4:06 |
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| 10. | |
Lucy |
4:37 |
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| 11. | |
When I Think Of You |
4:22 |
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| 12. | |
Get Over It |
2:06 |
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| 13. | |
Five Problems |
5:11 |
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13 Total Tracks, 43:19 Total Length
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Credits
- The Cucumbers - Main Performer // Scott Ansell - Percussion // Scott Ansell - Producer // Scott Ansell - Engineer // Scott Ansell - Sampling // Scott Ansell - Mixing // Jon Fried - Guitar // Jon Fried - Arranger // Jon Fried - Vocals // Joe Lambert - Editing // Joe Lambert - Mastering // Dave Ross - Percussion // Dave Ross - Arranger // Dave Ross - Drums // Dave Ross - Vocals // Gerald Fried - Oboe // Ken Feldman - Assistant Engineer // Joshua Fried - Loops // Kurt Wrobel - Bass // Kurt Wrobel - Arranger // Kurt Wrobel - Vocals // Wayne Dorell - Assistant Engineer // Don Rivers - Piano // Don Rivers - Bells // Sal Mormando - Assistant Engineer
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