Death By Chocolate Zap The World
Format: CD.
Also available as: vinyl LP.
Year Of Release: 2002.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 156.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M147914
Approximate release date: May 7, 2002.
Genres: British Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $13.99 [Out of Stock]
List price:$16.97
Distributor/label description(s):
Siesta description:
"You English. Mini cars. Then miniskirts. You never know when to stop'' (Russian spy, speaking from inside John Steed's bowler hat after having been shrunk by a machine in The Avengers episode 'Mission...highly improbable'
'Zap the world' -the second Death by chocolate album- has all the originality and charm of last year's debut and is a seventeen track montage exploring similarly playful, sexy, witty and subversive themes of pop art, tradition, modernity and englishness.
Death by chocolate-or more especially Angie Tillett-has everything-feminism, tease, espionage, empire, gastronomy, travel, cinema...the fun of commodity. The whole excerise is joyful fancy. the idea that with humour and imagination, anything and everything is possible; a liberating philosophy in the face of which turgid modern, 'proper' 'serious' so-called pop doesn't really stand a chance.
Death by chocolate use the recording studio as a time machine. Thus Angela is 1966, 1905, 1570 and 2002 as the central programme of decidedly characterful songs is complimented by advertisements for a psychedelic wah-wah pedal, fantasy and marriage bureaus and an Indian takeaway and Angie's monologues on favourite car, shirt, art and breakfast cereal.
Historical style is paramount and the selection of the more formal songs could only be Death by chocolate...
'While I'm still young' from the definitive English sixties London pop girl film 'Smashing time' (which featured Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham) 'Cutoutgirlscout', inspired by Dudley Moore's hilarious encounter with Peter Cook's devil in Stanley Donen's original 'Bedazzled; the knockabout Charles Fox-Norman Gimbel composition 'Zap the world' from Sid and Marty Krofft's renowned 'Pufnstuf' (performed in the film by Billie Hayes marvellously horrible witchiepoo); Barbara Windsor's camp stab at the 1967 UK top ten 'Swinging London' which finds Angela adding the name of enigmatic sixties fashion photographer and husband of Twiggy, Justin de Villeneuve to he list of celebrities and also the wonderful new line "Sex Pistols signing outside Buckingham Palace" to immortalise a famous post-sixties swinging London moment.
And finally the unique formula of perhaps the outstanding track of the first album 'a b & c' is revisited with a distinctly surrealistic part two, the lyrics-which exemplify the world of Death by chocolate-are printed below...
Once again, the overall concept, sound and original music has been created at Terminal Electric Works Bristol by the production team Jeremy Butler, John Austin and Matty Green.
One day all records will be made this way...
Track listing:
1. "Vox Wah Wah Pedal"
2. "Zap The World Chorus (From 'Pufnstuf')"
3. "While I'm Still Young (from 'Smashing Time')"
4. "Bentley Corniche"
5. "Cutoutgirlscout"
6. "Lime Green Fitted Blouse (With Rounded Collar & Puce Cuffs)"
7. "A B &C Part Two"
8. "Bridget Riley"
9. "Artplay"
10. "Cinnamon Grahams"
11. "Bibi Gin"
12. "The Togetherness Marriage Bureau"
13. "Zap The World (From 'Pufnstuf')"
14. "Quite Quite Fantastic"
15. "Swinging London"
16. "Guru Indian Takeaway"
17. "John Steed Swordstick"
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Format: CD.
Also available as: vinyl LP.
Year Of Release: 2002.
Label: Siesta.
Label reference #: Siesta 156.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M147914
Approximate release date: May 7, 2002.
Genres: British Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $13.99 [Out of Stock]
List price:
Distributor/label description(s):
Siesta description:
"You English. Mini cars. Then miniskirts. You never know when to stop'' (Russian spy, speaking from inside John Steed's bowler hat after having been shrunk by a machine in The Avengers episode 'Mission...highly improbable'
'Zap the world' -the second Death by chocolate album- has all the originality and charm of last year's debut and is a seventeen track montage exploring similarly playful, sexy, witty and subversive themes of pop art, tradition, modernity and englishness.
Death by chocolate-or more especially Angie Tillett-has everything-feminism, tease, espionage, empire, gastronomy, travel, cinema...the fun of commodity. The whole excerise is joyful fancy. the idea that with humour and imagination, anything and everything is possible; a liberating philosophy in the face of which turgid modern, 'proper' 'serious' so-called pop doesn't really stand a chance.
Death by chocolate use the recording studio as a time machine. Thus Angela is 1966, 1905, 1570 and 2002 as the central programme of decidedly characterful songs is complimented by advertisements for a psychedelic wah-wah pedal, fantasy and marriage bureaus and an Indian takeaway and Angie's monologues on favourite car, shirt, art and breakfast cereal.
Historical style is paramount and the selection of the more formal songs could only be Death by chocolate...
'While I'm still young' from the definitive English sixties London pop girl film 'Smashing time' (which featured Lynn Redgrave and Rita Tushingham) 'Cutoutgirlscout', inspired by Dudley Moore's hilarious encounter with Peter Cook's devil in Stanley Donen's original 'Bedazzled; the knockabout Charles Fox-Norman Gimbel composition 'Zap the world' from Sid and Marty Krofft's renowned 'Pufnstuf' (performed in the film by Billie Hayes marvellously horrible witchiepoo); Barbara Windsor's camp stab at the 1967 UK top ten 'Swinging London' which finds Angela adding the name of enigmatic sixties fashion photographer and husband of Twiggy, Justin de Villeneuve to he list of celebrities and also the wonderful new line "Sex Pistols signing outside Buckingham Palace" to immortalise a famous post-sixties swinging London moment.
And finally the unique formula of perhaps the outstanding track of the first album 'a b & c' is revisited with a distinctly surrealistic part two, the lyrics-which exemplify the world of Death by chocolate-are printed below...
Once again, the overall concept, sound and original music has been created at Terminal Electric Works Bristol by the production team Jeremy Butler, John Austin and Matty Green.
One day all records will be made this way...
Track listing:
1. "Vox Wah Wah Pedal"
2. "Zap The World Chorus (From 'Pufnstuf')"
3. "While I'm Still Young (from 'Smashing Time')"
4. "Bentley Corniche"
5. "Cutoutgirlscout"
6. "Lime Green Fitted Blouse (With Rounded Collar & Puce Cuffs)"
7. "A B &C Part Two"
8. "Bridget Riley"
9. "Artplay"
10. "Cinnamon Grahams"
11. "Bibi Gin"
12. "The Togetherness Marriage Bureau"
13. "Zap The World (From 'Pufnstuf')"
14. "Quite Quite Fantastic"
15. "Swinging London"
16. "Guru Indian Takeaway"
17. "John Steed Swordstick"
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