Has the Orwellian Prophecy Finally Come to This?
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In 1994, Buster Poindexter (perhaps better known as David Johansen) released - almost completely unnoticed - one of the five greatest albums that decade yielded, and quite possibly the most entertaining jazz LP ever recorded: ??Buster's Happy Hour??. I have yet to meet anyone who's even listened to it other than myself. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its perfume on the desert air, as Thomas Gray so eloquently put it.The wit, the complexity, the good cheer and self-effacing silliness of Buster Poindexter had not fully coalesced when he had his first and only hit - "Hot Hot Hot," in 1987 - and sadly, by the time ??Happy Hour?? came out, he could far too easily be dismissed as a one-hit wonder trying to revisit a tired formula. Unless, of course, you actually listened to the album, which is exactly what their first impression would prevent most people from doing.But lucky you: zarpex is not so easily misled. Behold!
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I have the disk. It's brilliant, including Who Drank my Beer (while I was in the Rear?) and the blusy Pink Champagne. If you can find it, get it!