Sacred Cow | ||||
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Studio album by Geggy Tah | ||||
Released | April 23, 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1995 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, funk rock | |||
Length | 50:16 | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
Sacred Cow is an album by Geggy Tah, released in 1996. It contains "Whoever You Are," a number-16 hit on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The band toured with Sting, Soul Coughing, and Barenaked Ladies in support of the album.
Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly called the album "another fine, goofunky mess, chockful of weird hooks and dance-feverish energy." The Nation wrote that the band "is carving out a place devoted to fey weirdness, edgy grooves, and realityskewing lyrics." Trouser Press wrote: "Sacred Cow continues the duo’s tactful progression towards a modern version of Steely Dan-dom." The Boston Globe noted that the album "seems to take its strength from a core of fluid, funky jazz-rock fusion. It sounds as if Donald Fagen of Steely Dan were recruited to join the Presidents of the United States of America."
Track listing
All songs written by Tommy Jordan & Greg Kurstin, except as noted.
- "Granddad's Opening Address" – 0:29
- "Whoever You Are" – 4:33
- "Lotta Stuff" (Jordan) – 3:10
- "Century Plant 2000" – 6:17
- "Sacred Cow" (Jordan) – 5:02
- "House of Usher (Inside)" (Jordan) – 3:58
- "Don't Close the Door" – 4:10
- "Such a Beautiful Night" (Jordan) – 3:53
- "She Withers" – 4:09
- "Las Vegas with the Lights Out" – 3:27
- "Mem" (Jordan) – 4:39
- "Shed" (Jordan) – 3:45
- "Gina" – 2:45
References
- "Sacred Cow « LUAKA BOP".
- Allmusic review
- Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 709.
- ^ "Music Review: 'Sacred Cow'". EW.com.
- "Whoever They Are : Geggy Tah's Members Defy Conventional Labels, Yet One of Their Singles Is Climbing the Charts". Los Angeles Times. January 3, 1997.
- "The Modern Age". Billboard. September 28, 1996 – via Google Books.
- Everett, Todd (August 8, 1996). "Soul Coughing; Geggy Tah".
- Sacred Cow at AllMusic
- "Listening in the Streets". The Nation. 263: 33. July 8, 1996.
- "Geggy Tah". Trouser Press. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- Saunders, Michael (16 Aug 1996). "All Geggy Tah Wanna Do....The band's 'Whoever You Are' Makes the Simple Sublime". The Boston Globe.
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