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Lounge-A-Palooza | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Hollywood Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $31.35
New (7) Used (10) Collectible (1) from $6.00
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 135082
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 720616207227
EAN: 0720616207227
ASIN: B000000OK8
Release Date: October 7, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Mini Skirt - Esquivel | | • | This Guy's in Love With You - Bacharach, Burt | | • | She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips | | • | A Rose Is a Rose - Danielewski, Mark Z | | • | Black Hole Sun - Cornell, Chris | | • | The Girl From Ipanema - DeMoraes, Vinicius | | • | Zaz Turned Blue - Was, Don | | • | I'm Not in Love - Gouldman, Graham | | • | Wichita Lineman - Webb, Jimmy [1] | | • | Witchcraft - Coleman, Cy | | • | Love Will Keep Us Together - Sedaka, Neil | | • | Music to Watch Girls By - Ramin, Sid | | • | The Good Life - Reardon, Jack | | • | Robert Goulet (On the River Nile) - Ballew, Chris |
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| Customer Reviews:
 I'm Speechless .. July 5, 2006
SkiBum
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
.. but I'll try to make a few, and I mean a few, comments. I bought this CD solely for the updated version of "Wichita Lineman" with Glen Campbell, Michelle Shocked, and the Texas Tornados (Freddy Fender). Now I know why it was listed for $4.99 and the used CD I received was virtually brand new. Because I can see this first time I listened to the CD will be just like that of the previous owners' -- the LAST!
I love the Glen Campbell cut. I would suggest for almost all of the rest of this CD you need to always have a large bucket with you .. it will leave you with the dry heaves! I gave it two stars for the two good cuts on it. The second would be Cassandra Wilson's "The Good Life," although I can safely say that I won't likely be cueing that one up again either!
I've always somewhat enjoyed the style of Esquivel, but I could do without the help of anyone whose name starts with "Combustible" and ends with "Edison." Fastball pretty much ruined a favorite Burt Bacharach tune (although I usually like Fastball's own music). The rest .. well, Steve & Eydie need to stick with the genre they're known for .. sheesh! Little Jimmy/Flea, or whomever sang the horrible Captain & Tenille tune sound like they are singing with a quarter pound of polenta in both cheeks. The James Taylor Quartet actually were the only other "enjoyable" tune here.
Bottom line .. you are paying too much if you buy this coaster at anything more than $2.99. I would have preferred buying the CD single of the Campbell tune, without the horrifying experience that was the rest of this dreadful fifty-three minutes of torture!
It's a fun, interesting CD July 22, 2005
A. S. Johnson (Anchorage, AK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listen to this CD occasionally, and I always enjoy it. The songs are quirky, given who the performers are. I think this CD took the whole Palooza thing to its rightful conclusion.
Whatever April 23, 2005
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a pretty fun CD featuring contemporary performers paying tribute to lounge music. Although some of the tracks feature older performers like Steve and Eydie. In fact, Steve and Eydie's lounge-ish version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" is the best track here (it's a hoot!). I also enjoyed most of the other tracks, which mostly feature modern artists doing songs associated with the lounge era. Not all of them work, but a high percentage of them do. Fans of the lounge music revival should enjoy this CD.
Still on the line. . . November 8, 2002
Henry M. Rector Jr. (Washington, DC United States)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most of the tracks on the CD are cutesy, self-conscious kitsch. The first time you listen to them, they amuse you. The second time, they annoy you -- tremendously. There may not be a third time.
There is one startling exception, the updated version of "Wichita Lineman" performed by Glen Campbell, Freddy Fender, Texas Tornados, and (!) Michelle Shocked. Even when the original came out in the early '70's (or whenever) people sort of laughed at the cornball lyrics, yet it was a big hit, and once you heard it, it was hard to get out of your head. In the hands of the two veterans Campbell and Fender, the new version becomes a masterfully realized evocation of obsession and loss. Shocked's backing vocals add haunting overtones of desperation and psychosis. It is an unforgettable melding of disparate talents. Like the original, once you've heard it, it tends to linger strangely. . .
 Lousy album saved by three great tracks... May 20, 2002
Ferrara Brain Pan (Frisco, Baby)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
What were they thinking when they put this together? Great lounge / MOR artists doing alternative covers? Alternative acts covering easy listening classics? Seems to be some confusion in concept here...
I had to give this disc five stars on the basis of one track which is absolutely brilliant: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme's version of 'Black Hole Sun' is sublime orchestral pop on a par with Scott Walker's classic 60s solo albums. I've never been a fan of this duo's recordings, but Steve's voice has deepened with the years to gain a gravity, with the warmth and expressive nuance of Sinatra at his best. Eydie holds her own in this duet, and the arrangement (tinkling lounge piano, muted trumpet and full orchestra) is flawless. Hearing the skewed metaphor of the song's lyric in this context is disorienting as it is disarming, and this version never fails to give me goosebumps.
There are two other noteworthy tracks here. Polly Jean Harvey with Eric Drew Feldman (formerly of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band) do a fine rendition of 'Zaz Turned Blue', an overlooked classic by Mel Torme (which actually comes from an out-of-print LP by Was Not Was). Despite the cheesy synth & sampled rhythm track, Polly handles the ballad with measured passion, though once you hear this you will want to seek out the Torme original (available on at least one CD collection by the late Velvet Fog). The lyrics to this song are a strange blend of Kerouac and David Lynch with a dark, homoerotic subtext, both twisted and hearttugging. The other fine selection is an update of 'Wichita Lineman' by original vocalist Glen Campbell with Michelle Shocked. Glen's voice has not fared well over the years (his dentures obviously impairing his enunciation), but that makes his delivery all the more wistful, touching even.
As for the rest of the disc, I cannot bear to listen to it. I admit I am no fan of 'alternative rock', but these songs & artists do not make me want to explore the misbegotten genre any further. Even Jimmy Scott (a first-rate vocalist) falls flat with a cloying cover of a Captain & Tenille hit. 'Black Hole Sun' makes the whole disc worthwhile, though...
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