This week’s record on The Philebrity Player feels super-appropriate for Halloween; after all, it’s The Walkmen masquerading as none other than Harry Nilsson. (Note for the trainspotters: Harry is a house hero here at the Phileb, and if you so much as squint at us in the “he’s just a poor man’s Randy Newman” way, we will brain you post haste.) And any true Harry fan will tell you: Pussycats is his most mythic and sublime of albums. Recorded with John Lennon, Klaus Voorman, Ringo and the gang back when Lennon was on The Lost Weekend, the Puss finds the Har at his most ripped, both emotionally and sonically. A drunken, blubbering magnificent hug of a record, it takes sack this big to even attempt what The Walkmen (now as much Philly as NYC, by the way) have done here. And make no mistake: This is a song-for-song, to-the-letter production. It’s a little creepy, to be honest with you, like that guy you knew in college who went through the phase where he dressed and acted like F. Scott Fitzgerald. You know that guy. And say what you will, he was fun at parties. Just like Pussycats by the Walkmen. Let us raise a glass, then, and toast to lost weekends, old forgotten soldiers and all of those many, many rivers to cross.
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Related links: MySpace: The Walkmen
Wikipedia: Harry Nilsson
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 5:15 pm.