Combustible Edison's goofy and irreverent mix owes a lot more to the music of the 1950s and early '60s than to new wave; they sound as if they've stumbled on a treasure trove of dime-store albums in their aunt's attic and can't quite get over the experience. Their immaculate recreation of late-'50s/early-'60s cheese is fun...to a point. Treading the line between self-conscious irony and the ridiculous, it probably won't prove to be more durable than those old Christmas (the band, not the season) albums. But then, nobody could have predicted the Martin Denny revival, either.
Combustible Edison was a group founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island, and was one of several lounge music acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s. Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works, such as those by Esqui...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Cadillac |
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| 2 The Millionaire's Holiday |
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| 3 Breakfast at Denny's |
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| 4 Intermission |
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| 5 Cry Me a River |
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| 6 Impact |
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| 7 Guadaloupe |
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| 8 Carnival of Souls |
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| 9 The Veldt |
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| 10 Surabaya Johnny |
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| 11 Spy Vs. Spy |
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| 12 Theme from "The Tiki Wonder Hour" |
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