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1991 studio album by Stan Ridgway
Partyball
Studio album by Stan Ridgway
ReleasedMay 1991
GenreRock
Length47:19
LabelGeffen Records
ProducerStan Ridgway
Stan Ridgway chronology
Mosquitos
(1989)
Partyball
(1991)
Songs That Made This Country Great
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Partyball is the third album by Stan Ridgway, released in 1991.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "serves up odes to trigger-happy cops, hopeless love, Harry Truman and the atom bomb, otherworldly chain gangs and plague-ridden dystopias, interrupted by odd instrumental interludes that continue Ridgway’s fascination with soundtrack music for invisible movies." The Los Angeles Times called the songs "mainly about the fearsome distortions that come from dominance, power and an unwillingness to acknowledge weakness and vulnerability as our common human lot."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway

  1. "Watch Your Step/Jack Talked (Like a Man on Fire)" - 4:19
  2. "I Wanna Be a Boss" - 4:52
  3. "Mouthful of Sand/The Roadblock" - 5:31
  4. "Snaketrain" - 3:53
  5. "Right Through You" - 3:45
  6. "The Gumbo Man" - 3:34
  7. "Harry Truman" - 3:51
  8. "Venus Is Hell/Overlords" - 5:39
  9. "O.K?/Uba's House of Fashions" - 4:36
  10. "Bad News at the Dynamite Ranch/Beyond Tomorrow" - 7:19

Personnel

Adapted from the Partyball liner notes.

  • Stan Ridgway - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals
  • Mark Schulz - guitar
  • Joe Ramirez - bass guitar
  • Bernard Sauser-Hall, Pietra Wexstun - keyboards
  • Joseph Berardi - drums
  • Beth Anderson, Evon Williams, John Batdorf, Larry Grennan - background vocals
  • Elmo Smith - saxophone
  • Don Teshner - steel guitar on "Snaketrain"
  • David Sutton - bass guitar on "Right Through You"
  • Jeff Boynton - piano on "Right Through You"

Chart positions

Singles

Year Title Peak Chart positions
US
1991 "I Wanna Be a Boss" 13

References

  1. Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "allmusic ((( Partyball > Review )))". Allmusic. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 21.
  3. "Stan Ridgway | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. "Stan Ridgway". Trouser Press. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  5. "POP MUSIC REVIEWS : Thought-Provoking Set From Stan Ridgway". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1991.
  6. Partyball (booklet). Stan Ridgway. Los Angeles, California: Geffen Records. 1991.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. "Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Stan Ridgway". Nielsen Company, Billboard. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
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