Tracks
- Little Hands
- Cripple Creek
- Diana
- Margaret/Tiger Rug
- Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
- War in Peace
- Broken Heart
- All Come to Meet Her
- Books of Moses
- Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang)
- Lawrence of Euphoria
- Grey/Afro
Oar is a wacky album. The music is a mix of folk and rock. Skip Spence wrote all of the music and lyrics, played all of the instruments, sang all of the songs and produced the album. That's quite an achievement for someone who had just gotten out of a mental hospital after being admitted there for chopping down a hotel room door with an axe in a drug fueled frenzy while attempting to attack two of his Moby Grape bandmates.
The music varies between nice melodic songs and dark, brooding ones. The lyrics are somewhere between cryptic and meaningless.
This is an excellent album. This album could be one big demonstration of insanity or it could be a wacky parody of itself. But it's neither. Despite the wackiness, it's a serious demonstration of the talents of a disturbed mind. It may not need to be on the 1001 Albums list, but it's definitely worth listening to.
Little Hands is the best song on the album and one of the most uplifting songs I've ever heard. Other stand outs are: Cripple Creek, Weighted Down (The Prison Song), War in Peace, Book of Moses, Dixie Peach Promenade (Yin for Yang), Lawrence of Euphoria and Grey/Afro.
★★★★★★★★★☆
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