Beautiful Mess (Thelonious Monster album)

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Beautiful Mess
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 1992
RecordedArdent Studios, Memphis
Capitol Studios, Hollywood
Sound Emporium, Nashville
Genre Alternative rock, Punk blues
Label Capitol [1]
Producer Joe Hardy, Pete Anderson, Al Kooper
Thelonious Monster chronology
Stormy Weather
(1990)
Beautiful Mess
(1992)
California Clam Chowder
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Robert Christgau A− [2]

Beautiful Mess is the fourth full-length album by Thelonious Monster. [3] It was their major label debut. [4] Two versions of the album were released.

Contents

Track listing

  1. I Live in a Nice House
  2. Blood Is Thicker Than Water
  3. Body and Soul?
  4. Adios Lounge
  5. I Get So Scared
  6. Song for a Politically Correct Girl From the Valley [5]
  7. Ain't Never Been Nuthin' for Me in This World
  8. Bus With No Driver
  9. Vegas Weekend
  10. Weakness in Me (by Joan Armatrading)
  11. The Beginning and the End #12 N 35

European version

  1. I Live in a Nice House
  2. Blood Is Thicker Than Water
  3. Body and Soul?
  4. Adios Lounge
  5. I Get So Scared
  6. Song for a Politically Correct Girl From the Valley
  7. Ain't Never Been Nuthin' for Me in This World
  8. Bus With No Driver
  9. Vegas Weekend
  10. I Met an Angel
  11. A Little Bit Nervous
  12. You Want Me to Change
  13. Couple Of Kids

Personnel

Additional musicians:

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