More Than Lazy

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Released 1996 Producer Scott Taylor Release date 1996 Genre Indie rock		Length 63:33 (CD) Artist The Hot Monkey Label Shangri-La Records
Recorded (home recordings) Memphis, Tennessee

More Than Lazy expands 1994's Lazy from seven songs to nineteen and gives even more insight into Scott Taylor's song writing, as the listener is treated to the greatest number of "Grifterized" Hot Monkey tunes.

Track listing

"Favors" 2:28
"That Certain Thing" 2:34
"4 Eyes" 1:17 (instrumental)
"Steam" 4:38
"Wheel" 2:24
"Sometimes" 3:40
"Monty Carlo" 4:22
"Hide-N-Seek" 6:08
"Wait Up" 3:53
"Dandy Lion" 4:05
"Other Ideas" 4:06
"The Strap" 4:24 (instrumental)
"Sooner" 3:08
"I Won't Tell" 2:03 (instrumental)
"Meat Truck" 1:18
"Hours" 3:25
"Think I Love You" 3:43
"Dinosaur Angel" 3:33 (instrumental)
"Sain" 2:16

"Grifterized" songs

The short instrumental "4 Eyes" features the lead guitar riff of Crappin' You Negative's "Cinnamon".

"Steam" appeared as "Stream" on the 1995 single for Derivative Records.

"Wait Up" appeared as "Parting Shot" from Ain't My Lookout.

The Eureka E.P.'s "Banjo" is a composite of "Meat Truck" and "Think I Love You"

"Hours" would appear a year later on the final Grifters album, Full Blown Possession.

"Sain" appeared "Grifterized" on 1993's One Sock Missing.

Hot Monkey

Scott Taylor - vocals, guitars, slide, bass, drum machine, percussion, keys, drums, recorder.

Additional credits

Cover photograph by Shannon Kelly-Taylor

Cover model and voice on beginning of "Think I Love You" Chelsea Scott Taylor

Inside photography by Dan Ball

Graphic assembly by David Thompson

Songs

1Favors
2That Certain Thing
34 Eyes

References

More Than Lazy Wikipedia

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