PRETTY & TWISTED Pretty & Twisted 1995

 

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Pretty & Twisted Biography by John Bush

Ex-Concrete Blonde vocalist and bassist Johnette Napolitano waited two years after her former band broke up to form Pretty & Twisted with guitarist Marc Moreland and drummer Danny Montgomery. Less aggressive than Concrete Blonde but still rooted in the same tradition, the band's self-titled debut was released in 1995 on Warner Bros.

Tracklist

  1. The Highs Are Too High
  2. Mother of Pearl
  3. Souvenir
  4. No Daddy No
  5. ¡Ride!
  6. Train Song (Edge Of Desperation)
  7. Stranger
  8. Singing Is Fire
  9. Don't Take Me Down
10. Come Away With Me
11. Dear Marlon Brando
12. Billy
13. Watching The Water

JOHNETTE NAPOLITANO & HOLLY VINCENT Vowel Movement 1995

 
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Vowel Movement Review by Tom Demalon

Vowel Movement is actually new wave/punk fringe artist Holly Vincent (Holly & the Italians, the Oblivious) and Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano. The two had actually toured together when the Oblivious opened for Concrete Blonde. Vowel Movement is a decidedly low-key and often lo-fi affair that finds the pair getting back somewhat to the duo's punk roots. The tracks have an unfinished, embryonic quality, lyrically ("Dinosaur"), musically ("Hitchhiker"), and sometimes both ("Las Vegas"). It's a fly-on-the-wall experience for the listener that mainly satisfies best as a curiosity for fans of these two women, but casual listeners would be better advised to seek out their previous individual works.

Tracklist

1		Dinosaur
2		Hitchhiker
3		Frank
4		When We Collide
5		I Don't Wanna
6		Las Vegas
7		Death Of A Surfer
8		Vowel Movement (A-E-I-O-U)
9		Ohohoh
10		Jackie Baby
11		Gecko
12		Jesus
13		Tiny Music
14		Jackie Baby