Quack Rock - Five Duckades Of Accordion Mega-Hits

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All the great Rock hits as they should be done:

On accordion!

Includes the smash cat hit, "Smells Like a Big Fluffy Kitty"!

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1.	Anarchy In The UK 03:08	info	buy track
2.	The Man Who Sold The World 03:32	info	buy track
3.	Smells Like Teen Spirit 04:51	info	buy track
4.	White Rabbit 02:33	info	buy track
5.	Black Dog 04:51	info	buy track
6.	She's An Angel 02:16	info	buy track
7.	St. Stephen 04:15	info	buy track
8.	More Than A Feeling 04:17		buy track
9.	The Star Spangled Banner (The Anacreontic Song) 01:21	info	buy track
10.	Bombtrack 03:41	info	buy track
11.	Satellite Of Love 03:03	info	buy track
12.	Message 03:19	info	buy track
13.	Something 02:31	info	buy track
14.	Powerpuff Girls End Theme 02:32	lyrics	buy track
Brandilyn Davidson on Clarinet and Flute, Carolyn Walter on Bass Clarinet, Piccolo, and Flute, Amber Lamprecht on Oboe Mike Penny on Shamisen
15.	Highway To Hell 02:47	info	buy track
16.	Uninspired 01:07	info	buy track
17.	Smells Like A Big Fluffy Kitty 04:56	info	buy track

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Full album purchase includes all original artwork, including Duckmandu versions of Classic Rock album covers!

Includes the smash cat hit Smells Like a Big Fluffy Kitty! Featuring Gravy on meows and purrs!

From Back Cover:

Thieves, all of them, thieves! There, I've said it. In a world that turned against the accordion, they never tired of stealing from its rich bounty of musical innovation. They tried desperately to match its boundless variety of timbres, styles, and harmonies. They created musical "movements": Psychedelic, Punk, Art Rock, Funk-Rap-Rock. These terms encompass entire genres, but each represents but a miniscule portion of the sonic world of the pyrotechnically virtuosic accordio-vocalisticator, DUCKMANDU! Now all may stand awestruck in the presence of the greatest songs from Rock Music History, presented here at long last in their original form.

From liner notes:

Duckmandu, flight of my life, down of my loins. My wings, my bill. Duck-man-du: The tip of the tongue tapping the palate twice with a man in the middle. Duck. Man. Du.

Landing in San Francisco in 1966, DUCKMANDU! was the freakiest duck in a sea of freaky-duckies. DUCKMANDU! would create the new sounds of the day, to have them filched without attribution by the "heads" of Haight-Ashbury.

After being chased by a crowd of angry hippies for loving their chicks a little too freely, he flew the coop and migrated east, flying between London and New York to hatch the myriad styles of 70's rock, from Punk, to Glam, Hard Rock, and the majestic tintinnabular landscapes of Studio Rock. Again, no rocker acknowledged the true source of this platinum record music. DUCKMANDU! had nothing to do with Disco's origins, however, and now he dove deep, plumbing the depths for sustenance, surfacing only occasionally for air and bits of bread.

Come 1990, his innovations were once again plundered by the purveyors of Raparockafunk and Post-Grunge, a category DUCKMANDU! had already developed before it was even Pre-Post-Avant-Neo-Grunge.

And now as he founds Japanime-influenced children's supergirl music, the accordion once again finds a place in pop culture. Still, few people realize the seminal position in Music History held by the accordion as played by that lone bird, DUCKMANDU!

THANKS ALOT!

Thanks to Karin Seeman and Melissa Margolis.

Thanks to Kimric Smythe for microphone installation, accordion repairs, and for destroying accordions with dangerous explosives just for laughs.

Thanks to Jason Webley for making people believe the accordion is a cool instrument.

Thanks to Mimi Ward, whom I hold personally responsible for my life as an accordionist.

Thanks to Skyler Fell, for conscientious accordion repair work and for leading a new generation of accordion enthusiasts astray.

Thanks to the Fishtank household, for enduring my reed splitting, vocal cord tearing, shoulder destroying practice sessions 24 hours a day.

Thanks to Mike Penny for Japan and Shamalamacord.

credits

released February 18, 2011

Accordion and Vocals by Aaron Seeman

Track 10 and 14 Mike Penny on Shamisen

Track 14: Brandilyn Davidson on Clarinet and Flute, Carolyn Walter on Bass Clarinet, Piccolo, and Flute, Amber Lamprecht on Oboe

Smells Like a Big Fluffy Kitty: Gravy on Meows and Purrs

Recorded and engineered by Aaron Seeman at the FISHTANK
except Track 3 and Smells Like a Big Fluffy Kitty recorded in Gravy's Basement

Recording © 2011 by Aaron Seeman
Arrangements © 2011 by Aaron Seeman

anonymous Bosch: Album Covers, Fire, dismembered accordion parts
Amy Denio: Photo
Aaron Seeman: Text, Layout

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