Alloy Orchestra, Masters of Slapstick - 57m 47s

Tracks & Durations

1. One Week - One Week Intro	0:42
2. One Week - Drive Away	1:20
3. One Week - Lot 99	0:36
4. One Week - Tuesday Waltz	0:52
5. One Week - Handy Hank	0:51
6. One Week - Wednesday Waltz	0:47
7. One Week - Piano Mover	0:27
8. Head	2:33
9. One Week - Spotanski II	1:01
10. One Week - Thursday Waltz	2:22
11. One Week - Friday The 13th	1:08
12. One Week - Merry Go Round	2:04
13. One Week - Saturday's Song	1:00
14. One Week - Determined	1:30
15. One Week - The Train Wreck	0:56
16. One Week - Last Waltz	0:32
17. Big Business - Laurel And Hardy Theme	0:30
18. Big Business - Selling Christmas Trees	0:42
19. Big Business - Laurel And Hardy Theme II	0:17
20. Big Business - Don't Want To Buy A Christmas Tree	4:38
21. Big Business - Trouble At The Door	2:26
22. Big Business - Patrol Wagon	1:45
23. Big Business - Wackey One Too	1:05
24. Big Business - Destructo March	4:16
25. Big Business - Officer Foldy Arms	0:43
26. Tears	2:08
27. Big Business - Laurel And Hardy	0:36
28. Easy Street - Old Time Religion	1:11
29. Easy Street - Angelic Brimstone	1:00
30. Easy Street - Hallelujah	0:17
31. Easy Street - Angelic Brimstone II	0:40
32. Easy Street - Charlie Leaves The Mission	0:16
33. Easy Street - Easy Street	2:20
34. Easy Street - The Bad Guy (Eric Campbell)	1:40
35. Easy Street - The Gassing	1:38
36. Easy Street - Phone Call Cops	1:22
37. Orphanage	3:18
38. Easy Street - Zany Dish Pants	2:12
39. Easy Street - Snidely Whiplash	1:01
40. Easy Street - On The Street	0:20
41. Charlie Kicks Their Asses	1:08
42. Easy Street - Angelic Brimstone Finale	1:16

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Review

The Alloy Orchestra has become something of a staple at cinema festivals worldwide, accompanying silent films with scores performed on synthesizers, accordions, musical saws, and a junk pile of pans and sheet metal. Masters of Slapstick is the band's first CD foray into old-fashioned comedic violence, scoring the movies One Week by Buster Keaton, Big Business by Laurel and Hardy, and Easy Street by Charlie Chaplin. And like the outlandish visual cues and farcical action of these films, the Alloy's music is all setup and punch line, a ride of Keystone Cops proportion. The pleasant formality of a waltz or a wedding march suddenly careens and ditches into a percussive pileup ("Drive Away") or a vaudeville piano gets a heavy dose of adrenaline and lurches into a stampede of ivory keys and foot stomping ("Zany Dish Pants"). Poignant and direct, drunken and burlesque, the Alloy Orchestra's take on pratfalls and painful stunts is completely loaded with seductive charm. --Michael Woodring

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