Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

Lounge Lizards (album)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1981

Label
  
EG Records

Genre
  
Avant-garde jazz

Producer
  
Teo Macero

Recorded
  
July 21-22, 28-29, 1980 at CBS Recording Studios, New York City

Lounge Lizards (1981)
  
No Pain for Cakes (1987)

Lounge Lizards is the first album by The Lounge Lizards. It features hectic instrumental jazz. The songs are mostly composed by band leader and saxophone player John Lurie.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by John Lurie except where noted.

  1. "Incident on South Street" – 3:21
  2. "Harlem Nocturne" – 2:04 (Earle Hagen)
  3. "Do The Wrong Thing" – 2:39 (John Lurie, Steve Piccolo)
  4. "Au Contraire Arto" – 3:22
  5. "Well You Needn't" – 1:53 (Thelonious Monk)
  6. "Ballad" – 3:22
  7. "Wangling" – 2:58
  8. "Conquest of Rar" – 3:12 (John Lurie, Evan Lurie, Anton Fier)
  9. "Demented" – 2:01
  10. "I Remember Coney Island" – 3:27
  11. "Fatty Walks" – 2:51
  12. "Epistrophy" – 4:12 (Thelonious Monk, Kenneth Clarke)
  13. "You Haunt Me" – 3:40

Personnel

  • John Lurie – alto saxophone
  • Evan Lurie – keyboards
  • Steve Piccolo – bass
  • Arto Lindsay – guitar
  • Anton Fier – drums
  • Frank Laico, Ted Brosnan - engineers
  • Peter Saville - design
  • Fran Pelzman - photography

    • References

    Lounge Lizards (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA