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Napoleon XIV | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (26 Mar 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B0000033RJ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 155,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Ode To A Farmer Boy0:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. The Explorer 2:09£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. They'Re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! 2:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle 2:17£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Photogenic, Schizophrenic You 2:14£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Marching Off To Bedlam 2:14£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Doin' The Napoleon 2:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. The Place Where The Nuts Hunt The Squirrels 1:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Let's Cuddle Up In My Security Blanket 1:54£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Goofin' On The Job 2:27£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Bats In My Belfry 1:43£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Dr. Psyche, The Cut-Rate Head-Shrinker 1:56£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. I Live In A Split-Level Head 2:10£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. I'M Happy They Took You Away, Ha-Haaa! 2:13£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen15. The Nuts On My Family Tree 2:31£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen16. I Owe A Lot To Iowa Pot 3:39£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Can You Dig It? 1:52£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen18. The Song I Wrote For Robert Goulet 1:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen19. They'Re Coming To Get Me Again, Ha-Haaa! 2:38£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen20. It May Appear Ridiculous0:42£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen21. !aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er'yehT 2:09£0.89  Buy MP3 

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5.0 out of 5 stars This has to be the most clinically challenged album I know 25 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This is a truly odd CD. Napoleon XIV drifts from childhood at 43 to near psychosis, with perhaps the sanest track on the entire album being a hymn to the redemptive qualities of Iowa pot ("I owe a lot/To Iowa pot/And I don't mean Iowa corn"). We are taken to places in which the nuts hunt the squirrels, and in which the girl who pre-empted the psychosis from which most of the tracks seem to derive pops up repeatedly, in various forms:on one, she is a photograph on the wall - unfortunately, being as how she's gone, the photo transmorgrifies into a window, and the song peters out in a shower of broken glass and the thud of a falling body. In the single "They're coming to take me away", and its sequel, "They're coming to get me again", she's a demon, albeit one whom Napoleon apparently put in a cage - which he cleaned. I actually played the album to two friends of mine, both of whom are psychiatric nurses. By the end, both of them firmly believed that the artist must have spent time in an asylum (the reference to the way straps do up in a strait jacket is a bit too specific for comfort). Not only that, but both arrived at a diagnosis: the artist is a manic depressive, just entering the manic phase. Whether or not this is factually true, it is a testament to the album's madcap volatility, underpinned by obsessively structured lyrics. If you're a fan of Syd Barrett's bizarre cocktails of nursery rhyme and menace, you'll enjoy tracks like "Little Red Tricycle" ("Thirty days hath Septober,/April May and no wonder/All the rest have peanut butter/All except my dear grandmother ..."), in which the rhyme and rhythm structures play out with the intricacy and demoniac attention to detail of "Bike". Buy this album.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mental as anything? 2 Dec 2010
By Richard
Format:Audio CD
Actually Napolean XIV was as sane as me.In reality he was a sound engineer and part time songwriter (The shelter of your arms) who figured he ought to make a record.He couldn't sing so he talked.Talked his way up to the No 1 position on the charts.
After some people had complained about its lighthearted treatment of mental illness came the fiction-according to him the one who'd left was his DOG!
Which if you read between the lines is the same as an unfaithful woman (a mutt)
I seem to remember Napolean coming to the U K but they sent somebody else over rather than Jerry Samuels.And with that mask who was going to argue?
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3.0 out of 5 stars sound quality is poor 9 Jun 2013
By M. smith
Format:MP3 Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
As A child I was scared of the record 'they're coming to take me away ha ha' which my sadistic older brother used to keep playing until my parents eventually took it away from him. the main lyricists on this album Bob Gosh and Jim Lehner who I geekled, don't even seem to be a footnote in history though they were quite good I think, unless they're Jerry Samuels of course
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly weird 31 July 2011
By Marvelous Me
Format:Audio CD
Some very good music that I haven't heard in a long time :)
Strange doesn't come close but if you're blessed with a sense of humour then this is a must have for the collection
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4.0 out of 5 stars great forgotten song 23 Feb 2011
By clive
Format:Audio CD
it was great to hear this again after such a long time. it bought a smile to me after hearing all of the c/d,
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