Product Description

'Aw C'Mon/No You C'Mon' is the seventh studio release from Kurt Wagner's alt-country outfit Lambchop. The album, released as two single albums but packaged together, sees the bandbridge the gap between the stripped down sound of 2001's 'Is A Woman' and the full, almost orchestral sound of 2000's acclaimed release 'Nixon'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Being Tyler
2. Four Pounds In Two Days
3. Steve Mcqueen
4. The Lone Official
5. Something’s Going On
6. Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train
7. Each Time I Bring It Up It Seems To Bring You Down
8. Timothy B Schmidt
9. Women Help Create The Kind Of Men They Despise
10. I Hate Candy
11. I Haven’t Heard A Word I’ve Said
12. Action Figure

Disc 2:

1. Sunrise
2. Low Ambition
3. There’s Still Time
4. Nothing Adventurous Please
5. The Problem
6. Shang A Dang Dang
7. About My Lighter
8. Under A Dream Of A Lie
9. Jan 24
10. The Gusher
11. Listen
12. The Producer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29019 in Music
• Released on: 2004-02-09
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Aw C'Mon / No You C'Mon, the latest in Lambchop's long and meaty lineage, could loosely be described as a double-concept LP. Originally conceived when vocalist Kurt Wagner decided to write a song a day for a few months, it was then stretched further when the band was asked to write a soundtrack for a 1927 silent movie. The end result is a double LP that, consciously or not, adequately captures the diverse nature of this endlessly creative group.

Wagner's distinctive voice is a constant (as are his lyrics, which range joyously from the sentimental to the sarcastic) but the background sounds are a constantly shifting tapestry, all rich strings and insouciant strums one minute, brooding melodies and sinister moods the next. If there's any band out there that seem to live for their work it's Lambchop. And while they don't necessarily get better with every album, they do retain a certain freshness and sense of innovation, traits that many of their peers could do with adopting. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

Flawed gem
In common with many of theother reviewers, I found this double cd a little lacking as a record. But, when played in it's original context, as a soundtrack to "Sunrise", it makes perfect sense. The noodly instrumentals become accompaniments to tracking shots, and there is ironic counterpoint throughout - the line "Not even Steve McQueen" matches a shot of a very silent movies era performer, all bones & moustache.

I'd played the cd a lot before I saw them accompany the film, and now, it makes better sense with the memory of the film alongside.Sunrise - Murnau - Masters of Cinema series

Stately Country and Lush Instrumentals
I first encountered Lambchop, as is the case with many listeners, some time shortly after the release of the great Nixon album. Being a fan of both Country and soul/funk fan in general, and a huge Curtis Mayfield fan in particular, the recordings on this album totally astounded me. I was lucky enough to see Kurt Wagner play a solo acoustic set about six months or so before "Is A Woman" came out. It was then I realised that there were more sides to Lambchop than I had heard on Nixon. When "Is A Woman" finally came out I didn't know what to make of it at first. I loved certain songs but it took me quite a few listens before I warmed to it as an album but eventually I began to really love it and even went to see Lambchop when they toured the album with the full band.

"Aw Come On!/No You Come On!" was a similar experience with me. Initially I found the two albums very pleasant but didn't feel the compulsion to play the albums again and again. Then I heard Lambchop were doing a really cool gig in Edinburgh. At some point in the recent past they had been commisioned to write a film score for F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece "Sunrise", and there was going to be a screening of a restored version of the film with Lambchop providing a live score. As I really liked the film, was well disposed to Lambchop, and the whole concept of a live film score really appealed to me, I thought I'd give it a go. It was a revelation. I'd twigged that the instrumental "Sunrise" would be involved somehow but I hadn't realised that "Aw Come On..." was in a large part made up from songs prepared for this project, I'd for some reason presumed that the soundtrack would be entirely instrumental. I was pleasantly suprised to hear tracks like "Nothing Adventerous Please"(which was really rocking live)and "The Gusher" providing an aural backdrop to the beautifully composed images on the screen.

Since then "Aw Come on!/No you Come on!" has clocked a respectable amount of listens and has become a bit of a favourite. It really does have a wealth of top tunes on it. Low Ambition, with it's great piano melody, ridiculously atmospheric layered guitars and neatly oblique lyrics. "Shang a Dang Dang" is ridiculously catchy and infectious despite the fact you can't hear what Kurt is singing. My best guess is "shang a dang dang, I'm a two-tone duck, yeah!". "Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train" is a great song with a really great string arrangement and paints a beautiful picture, only complaint is the vocals could be higher in the mix particularly as the lyrics are so good.

The quality control applied to these cd appears to have been very high, as there are remarkable few tracks that aren't at least approaching excellence, no mean feat on a double album. Even the preponderance of Instrumentals which initially just washed over me, have really begun to grow on me. "Sunrise" is a great piece of music and it's a really great performance, particularly the pedal steel. "The Lone Official" is pretty damn good too, particular the rythme guitar intro. It's just a shame that the film "Sunrise" hasn't been realised on Dvd with Lambchops soundtrack accompanying it. Perhaps amazon could do an exclusive version with 5.1 dolby soundtrack.

give them a big hand grumpus
Simply the best piece of work they have done, more developed than Nixon, altogether more immediate, beautifully arranged and believe it or not "catchy". When "Is a woman" came out I was worried that Lambchop had finally imploding, I gave em a last try with this, blimey! what a relief! - this is a delicious an incredible set of songs and muscial landscapes that just touch your soul - really up, really good, Buy it now, give the man a big hand. Kurt and the rest deserves it.