Released August 1980 Release date August 1980 | Producer Barnes & Barnes Artist Barnes & Barnes Label Barnes and Barnes | |
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Recorded 1978-1980Lumania Studios Similar Spazchow, Amazing Adult Fantasy, Zabagabee: The Best of Barnes, Sicks | ||
Voobaha is the debut album by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes. It was originally released in 1980 by Rhino Records, reissued in 1996 by Oglio Records and reissued again in 2006 by Collector's Choice. Its title means "greetings" in the band's artificial language of Lumanian.
Contents
Music videos were shot for the songs "Party in My Pants," "Fish Heads," and "When You Die," all of which were released on the home video compilation Zabagabee.
Track listing
(All songs are by Barnes & Barnes, unless otherwise noted)
Side one:
- "Please Please Me" – (2:50) (Lennon–McCartney)
- "Boogie Woogie Amputee" – (2:31)
- "Gumby Jaws Lament" – (3:26)
- "De Pumped Out Blues" – (2:26)
- "Clip Clop (Ode To Equus)" – (3:53)
- "I Hope She Dies" – (3:15)
- "Party In My Pants" – (3:30)
Side two:
- "Fish Heads" – (2:23)
- "Sewey Hole" – (2:49)
- "The Lumanian Love Song" – (3:26)
- "Cemetery Girls" – (4:30)
- "Something's In The Bag" – (4:24)
- "Linoleum" – (4:09)
- "When You Die" – (0:48)
Both reissues contained additional bonus tracks:
Oglio Records (1996)
The Vomit Song 1:55Boogie Woogie Amputee 2:05High School Gym 2:13Three Drunk Newts 3:05Voyeur 3:55Cruising Through Westwood 3:36Neanderthal Love 2:57 Please Squeeze My Knees Louise 3:51 I Love You Baby 4:21Collector's Choice Records (2006)
The Vomit Song 1:57High School Gym 2:17Three Drunk Newts 3:09Voyeur 3:56Cruising Through Westwood 3:41Neanderthal Love 3:02Granny and the Kid 3:28I Gotta Get a Fake I.D. 3:08High Heels and Cheese 5:05Political Statement 0:48Boogie Woogie Amputee 2:19Fish Heads 1:26Production
Barnes & Barnes – Producer, Engineer
Joan Farber – Design
Monica Froeber – Reissue Package Design
Rocky Schenck – Photography
Trivia
The song "Cemetery Girls" features lyrics referencing ("Fresh souls in the cornfield...Anthony put them there..."), and samples from the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", which starred Bill Mumy (Art). Since the album was released several years before Art and Artie went "public" about their identities, the reference is more of an in-joke.
"Weird Al" Yankovic provided the accordion on "Gumby Jaws Lament".
Artie (Robert Haimer) was originally to sing "Gumby Jaws Lament", but Art had a terrible cold that day, and they decided his gravelly, phlegmy voice added to the song. The coughing throughout the song is real.
Mook and Beanhead, mentioned in both "Party in my Pants" and "When You Die", were pet names for Art and Artie's recently (at the time) ex-girlfriends.
Posse, mentioned as the Lumanian phrase for "I love you" in "The Lumanian Love Song", was Artie's dog. Nicknames for several other people Art and Artie knew are also mentioned in the song (such as the aforementioned "Mook").
Songs
1Please Please Me2:53
2Boogie Woogie Amputee2:35
3Gumby Jaws Lament3:27