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Strategem (album)

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Released
  
September 27, 1994

Strategem (1994)
  
Beautiful World (1997)

Genre
  
Pop

Length
  
47:15

Release date
  
27 September 1994

Label
  
Giant Records

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Artist
  
Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Similar
  
Another Mayberry, Midnight Radio, Sister Sweetly, Beautiful World, Rocksteady

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Strategem was the fourth album by Colorado rock band Big Head Todd and the Monsters, released in 1994. It was the band's second Giant Records release, following their platinum Sister Sweetly released the year before. While the album failed to match the sales and popularity of the band's previous effort, several individual tracks were positively received by reviewers, including "Kensington Line" and "Neckbreaker". Several verses on the album were inspired by Buddhist koans.

Contents

The band recorded the album in an empty theater in Boulder, Colorado and attempted to return to a more indie music sound in the wake of their more commercial-sounding effort in "Sister Sweetly".

"Strategem" was a deliberate misspelling by the band of "stratagem", used in the album title and also found in the song title "Strategem", and in the lyrics of that song: "Here I stand by lovely strategem."

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Track listing

All songs written by Todd Park Mohr

  1. "Kensington Line" - 3:19
  2. "Strategem" - 4:25
  3. "Wearing Only Flowers" - 4:43
  4. "Neckbreaker" - 3:57
  5. "Magdelina" - 4:55
  6. "Angel Leads Me On - 5:01
  7. "In the Morning" - 3:56
  8. "Candle 99" - 4:28
  9. "Greyhound" - 2:56
  10. "Poor Miss" - 4:25
  11. "Shadowlands" - 5:10

Songs

1Kensington Line3:19
2Strategem4:25
3Wearing Only Flowers4:44

References

Strategem (album) Wikipedia