Chagall Guevara

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 50:50

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Criminally Underrated

Updog

Great album, full of daring musicality and lyrics. The best way to describe it is this line from a print ad for it I saw when it was released (I think in Spin): "We want to make intelligent music and play it like mindless fools." I used that line for years afterward in the "Musicians Wanted" section of the classifieds while looking for bandmates! My favorite tracks to suggest are "Play God," "Murder In the Big House," and "Take Me Back to Love Canal." "The Wrong George" is a great bit of intelligent, subtle humor.

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rexreed

Does this mean the price for a Chagall cd on ebay will drop below 50 bucks now? Violent Blue is the best!

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Fantastic, But...

MusicLab

...when are we going to see Steve Taylor's solo stuff on e-music?? He is the voice and (arguably) primary moving force behind Chagall Guevara... so where's HIS stuff???

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Wow! Yes! Been waiting

UsKidsKnow

Great melodies. Clever lyrics. Wild passion. Way ahead of its time. I borrowed this CD from a friend way before most people could burn their own CDs - let alone download it on a computer. It was out of print before I could buy I, and I have never seen it on any music site since. Thank you for bringing it back. Way ahead of its time - and still good.

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With MCA putting much of its rock promotion muscle behind metal and hard rock in the early 1990s, Chagall Guevara seemed to get lost in the shuffle. It’s unfortunate, because the band showed some potential on this little-known CD. Not at all predictable, the melodic rockers have a very wide variety of direct or indirect influences — the album makes it sound like they were listening to everyone from Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper to INXS. “Murder In the Big House” has an especially Cooper-ish groove, while “Take Me Back to Love Canal” exemplifies the band’s more punk-influenced side, and “Rub of Love” hints at Lou Reed. Chagall Guevara should have done a lot better commercially. – Alex Henderson

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