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~ Squirrel Nut Zippers
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  • Audio CD (14 Jun 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mammoth
  • ASIN: B000026W8Z
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 827,548 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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To mainstream audiences, Squirrel Nut Zippers' out-of-left-field rise in popularity (on the strength of "Hell", their 1997 alterna-pop hit) marked the beginning of the new swing movement's commercial breakthrough. Yet as PERRENIAL FAVORITES proves, the Zippers' diversity of styles evokes more than mere zoot suits and jump-blues shouters. Imagine, instead, astew made of hot jazz, western swing and ethnic folk musicslike klezmer, polka and tango--as well as brass-driven boogie--which seamlessly reflects the cross-cultural melting potthat early 20th century America aspired to be. A race-barrier-less utopia of sound.
Featured in this revue are: Jim Mathus, who plays the Al Jolson-esque part of comedic vocalist and MC, Katherine Whalen, who stars as both Bessie Smith and Josephine Baker, a female singer straddling the line between the glee of cabaret-like pop and the melancholy of 78 rpm urban blues, and Andrew Bird, whose violin evokes both ancient Jewish melodies and the lonesome sounds of Appalachia.Songs like "Ghost of Stephen Foster" and "Trou Macaq" are filled with references to ragtime, "Camptown Races" and many other touchstones of early 20th century American popular culture, updating these images from oldies to perennials. And naturally, PERENNIAL FAVORITES swings like a kool-kitty demonon a ballroom floor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars weird and wonderful, 20 Dec 1999
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Any description that focuses on just words or music is going to miss out on just how exciting the SNZs are to listen to. There really is something for almost any taste (OK, they don't do Gregorian chant) - the songs are instant classics, you can't believe you don't already know them.

Perennial Favorites fuses traditional jazz with Asian and Eastern European sounds (check out the beginning of "The Ghost of Stephen Foster" for the segue from Indian to Klezmer to jazz and back). You can find just about any musical influence you care to look for (calypso in True Macaque): the words are just as wide ranging (and who knows what was slipped into the SNZs' drinks to make them come up with "If we were made from cellophane we'd all get stinking drunk much faster"?).

I've played this frequently for 18 months now and it's still in my top 10 favourites. And at least 4 of my friends have gone out and bought it too. And - a bonus - the US edition has one of the best-produced packages I've seen - a facsimile of a Victorian gardening manual. Go figure.

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