Track Listing

1. Hampsters
2. Waiters
3. Vagina
4. Aunty Mabel
5. Heinrich
6. Sheep
7. Maggots
8. Motorcar
9. Piglet
10. Kick a Stick
11. Cowboys
12. Flies
13. Happy End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #177337 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Not for your Auntie Mabel
Martin Jacques, singing to his piano accordion in a high falsetto, with Adrian Stout and Adrian Huge on bass and percussion, are the most bizarre, extraordinary, challenging, original and devastatingly witty trio in musical history (says I). Echoing Kurt Weill, the seedy streets of inter-war Paris, and the Marquis de Sade, all their work is about the sad failures and misfits of life, death and misadventure. Their music is often hauntingly beautiful, their lyrics always outstandingly thought provoking and witty.

Farmyard Filth is exactly what is says on the tin. A set of overwhelmingly disgusting litle songs about having it off with calves, sheep, flies, and failing to have it off with a Giraffe. You will either love (like me) or utterly loathe (like no doubt the late Mrs Whitehouse)these deliciously, childishly dirty litle songs, but you will not have heard anything like them before. As socially challenging in some ways as Derek and Clive, but FAR more intelligent and original, and with wonderful catchy tunes.

My personal favourite is Auntie Mabel, who "lost a leg, shot off in the war, so to maintain herself had - sailors by the score". She also has a terrible secret you must buy the cd to discover.

The only reason I give 4 stars not five, is that this is very testing material. Start off with their "Circus Songs" or "Low Life Lullabies" - which contain wonderfully compassionate, beautiful and moving material as well as the wit and outrageousness. This is great poetry as well as great music.