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| | Soul Coughing Album Reviews |
 | | I suppose the middle of the album is less interesting to me, as Ruby Vroom suffers somewhat from its cd-era length given that variety isn't exactly a band strength. | | | Irresistible Bliss (Warner Brothers 96) Rating: A- After a debut album as original as Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss was bound to seem less impressive to some people, but the songs here are of a similarly high quality, though again it takes some time to fully assimilate them. | | | The main problems with the album are its overly long 57-minute length and its sequencing (also a problem on Ruby Vroom), as putting slower, dirgey songs such as "Maybe I'll Come Down" and "Houston" back to back smack in the middle of the album probably wasn't such a great idea. |
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http://www.geocities.com/sfloman/soulcoughing.html
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| | Splendid: Departments: The Essential Albums |
| | Ruby Vroom starts off with a bang, with one of the most grimace-inducing-in-hindsight lyrical performances in recent memory. | | | Alternative to rock, alternative to jazz, and the antithesis of radio friendly, Ruby Vroom unleashed fourteen musical oddities that could have, and should have, changed the face of American music -- had anyone being listening. | | | You got the feeling, from both their album and their live shows, that they really never cared if they hit it big, and in fact seemed much happier embodying the obscure underbelly of modern rock than being poster boys for a new genre that could be compartmentalized in a SPIN column. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/departments/essential/ea31802.html
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| | The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Coughing Bears: Fracturing the Narrative and Other Misadventures |
| | When their first album, Ruby Vroom, spread its funkified wings in 1994, thousands of hungry, pulsing teenagers gasped. | | | Their second album, Irresistible Bliss, released in 1996, lost some of the momentum of Ruby Vroom (primarily because of the large number of bitter love ballads), although Soul Coughing found themselves a few steps closer to fame due mostly to the success of the upbeat, radio-friendly tune, "Super Bon Bon." | | | Just as the music has grown into the perfect amount of experimentation and wackiness, Doughty's lyrics have matured significantly from the fun, lighthearted poetry of Ruby Vroom. |
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=132474
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| | CityBeat: Soul Man (2001-05-03) |
| | Some of the material on the album was written nearly 10 years ago, intended to be a part of Soul Coughing's astonishing 1994 debut, Ruby Vroom, but jettisoned when it didn't quite dovetail with the rest of the album. | | | And while he doesn't dismiss the possibility of aligning himself with a major label in the future, for the time being Skittish is being burned a few discs at a time as he needs them, to sell through his Web site (www.superspecial-questions.com) or at shows. | | | To think of Doughty doing "something different" is an odd concept to say the least, since Soul Coughing was widely considered to be one of the most unique musical aggregations in recent memory. |
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http://www.citybeat.com/2001-05-03/music.shtml
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| | Notherby's :: Haughty Melodic |
| | If you like this, try Soul Coughing's first album, Ruby Vroom. | | | Every song on this CD and on Ruby Vroom is great. | | | The songs are uniqe and have a great replay value. |
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http://www.northerbys.com/store/B00080EV7A/Haughty_Melodic.html
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| | AlZaid.Net's Store :: Irresistible Bliss |
| | The first album, Ruby Vroom, featured dark grooves and bombshells like Screewriter's Blues and Sugar Free Jazz. | | | While Ruby Vroom featured vocals consisting of repeated phrases, Irresistible Bliss features vocal work more in line with actual lyrics. | | | For some people, this may not be a plus, as the approach of Ruby Vroom allowed for uniterrupted grooving. |
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http://www.alzaid.net/Irresistible_Bliss-B000002N56.html
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| | Adopt a Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom Devil |
| | (And if you ain't, well, boy I feel sorry for you.) It's "Blue Eyed Devil" and it is aong number four on Soul Coughing's debut album Ruby Vroom. | | | He appears on Ruby Vroom's cover and on the CD. | | | Here is the One and only Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom Devil. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/tn/Hollywoodess/rubyvroom.html
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| | Supra Genius lyric, Soul Coughing song, album Ruby Vroom |
| | Supra Genius lyric, Soul Coughing song, album Ruby Vroom | | | Something I can't comprehend Something so complex and Couched in its equation So dense that light cannot escape from In the dark your brain glows And it goes Way um way, way um way um I know you're a supra genius Will you shoot the blue earth down? | | | The Reprint of materials is resolved only at presence of the reference on MusicFind.ru |
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| | 94. Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom |
| | Soul Coughing's game excursions into new funk first came to light on the 1994 album Ruby Vroom. | | | Ruby Vroom delights with a rhythmic intensity that has not been seen since the heyday of Public Image Ltd. The seemingly haphazard sampling helps soften the rigid rhythmic geometries, allowing the songs to halluncinate toward any possible tangent. | | | Ruby Vroom delights with a rhythmic intensity that has not been seen since the heyday of Public Image Ltd. |
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http://www.nudeasthenews.com/90s/reviews/firstlaunch50/94rubyvroom.htm
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| | CityBeat: Soul Man (2001-05-03) |
| | Some of the material on the album was written nearly 10 years ago, intended to be a part of Soul Coughing's astonishing 1994 debut, Ruby Vroom, but jettisoned when it didn't quite dovetail with the rest of the album. | | | Utilizing Hip Hop and samples that were manipulated live, along with elements of Jazz and Rock, and featuring one of the most impossibly gifted rhythm sections on the planet, Soul Coughing produced three stellar albums (Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss and El Oso) and toured relentlessly. | | | And Skittish is not about being on a major label: It's about standing on a stage in front of a microphone, alone with a guitar and a song. |
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| | Soul Coughing Album Reviews |
| | Irresistible Bliss (Warner Brothers 96) Rating: A- After a debut album as original as Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss was bound to seem less impressive to some people, but the songs here are of a similarly high quality, though again it takes some time to fully assimilate them. | | | The main problems with the album are its overly long 57-minute length and its sequencing (also a problem on Ruby Vroom), as putting slower, dirgey songs such as "Maybe I'll Come Down" and "Houston" back to back smack in the middle of the album probably wasn't such a great idea. | | | I don't know why this album wasn't better received when it first appeared, for it's arguably the best of the band's albums, though all 3 are of a comparatively high quality. |
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| | CMT.com : Soul Coughing : Biography |
| | Soul Coughing 's debut album Ruby Vroom -- named after producer Mitchell Froom 's daughter -- was released in 1994 to mostly complimentary reviews. | | | He also played a series of shows behind his solo acoustic album, Skittish, which had been completed in 1995 but never officially released until Doughty decided to circumvent Napster and sell the album from his own website. | | | His official solo debut was reportedly in the works, but wound up postponed; however, he did issue another solo acoustic album, Smofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis, in 2002, and continued his periodic work as a columnist for the New York Press. |
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| | Discography- Promos |
| | This album contains one track, the Ruby Vroom version of Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago. | | | This album contains three songs by Soul Coughing: I'm Livin' On Babyfood and Theme From Rachel's Sitcom, which aren't on any other album, and a remix of Screenwriter's Blues, the original version of which is on Ruby Vroom. | | | This album contains four songs by Soul Coughing: Down to This (album version), Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago (live), Buddha Rhubarb Butter, and Casiotone Nation (live). |
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| | infected archive july 98 |
| | Their first album is Ruby Vroom, it's = | | | Heartland (from 12" single, album version) with b-sides: | | | If the The does in fact release a new album later this year and does in |
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| | Amazon.ca: Irresistible Bliss [Import]: Music |
| | S.C.'s first and final releases, "Ruby Vroom" and "El Oso" are both wonderful albums, but "Irresistable Bliss" is incomparable. | | | I have listened to this album, and I want to review it. | | | Soul Coughing doesn't sound quite like any other band I've heard, creating in their three albums a unique blend of jazz, rap, rock, poetry, humor, invective and a particularly anti-social coolness. |
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| | El Oso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | El Oso is generally agreed to be marked from their previous albums, Ruby Vroom and Irresistible Bliss, by a departure from jazz and continuation of the melodicism of Bliss in an overall darker mood. | | | El Oso, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) is the third and final album by the New York City band Soul Coughing. |
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| | Irresistible Bliss (Warner Brothers 96) Rating: A- After a debut album as original as Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss was bound to seem less impressive to some people, but the songs here are of a similarly high quality, though again it takes some time to fully assimilate them. | | | I don't know why this album wasn't better received when it first appeared, for it's arguably the best of the band's albums, though all 3 are of a comparatively high quality. | | | After Irresistible Bliss, Mike Doughty recorded a solo album, Skittish, which wasn't released until 2000 and even then only through his Web site (www.superspecialquestions.com), though it was "officially" released attached to his subsequent EP, Rockity Roll, in 2004 (adding five bonus tracks). |
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| | The Daily Northwestern {04.06.00} |
| | Their three albums Ruby Vroom, Irresistible Bliss and El Oso document travel from philosophical poetry to offbeat electronica. | | | In the past the Arizona emotive rockers have been louder and faster, but this album is a tribute to the band's original slide guitarist, Rainer Ptacek, who died of a brain tumor in 1997. | | | The new album occasionally lapses into brief solos by members of the band, and it is in these glimpses of each member that the Pat McGee Band's reputation shows. |
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| | The Harvard Crimson Online :: Arts |
| | Their second album, Irresistible Bliss, released in 1996, lost some of the momentum of Ruby Vroom (primarily because of the large number of bitter love ballads), although Soul Coughing found themselves a few steps closer to fame due mostly to the success of the upbeat, radio-friendly tune, "Super Bon Bon." | | | From the opening of the album, it is clear that the beats will be the most prominent and experimental aspect of the album. | | | What makes the lyrics of the album exceptional is the constant tension Doughty and Co. create between the words and the music. |
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| | El Oso |
| | Overall, the album seems a bit darker than their previous two, Ruby Vroom and Irresistible Bliss. | | | "Pensacola" is the most unnerving song on the album. | | | Finally, the album closer, "The Incumbent," is over 6 minutes long but doesn`t feel like it. |
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| | Soul Coughing live at Universalbuzz.com!!! |
| | Their 1994 LP debut, Ruby Vroom was an study in pop culture and sublime wit, an acid trip stuck in an innocent looking sugarcube, just waiting for an unsuspecting tongue to slip under. | | | Doughty is working on a solo album and still writing in New York, while Gubay and Steinberg continue to record with Mitch Froom as UV Ray. | | | Displeased with the results, the band toured, but their hearts and mighty brains were simply not in it and they decided they had become just another rock band, something the four had never been interested in. |
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