Next Saturday Afternoon

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Next Saturday Afternoon
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Studio album by
Thelonious Monster
Released1987
Label Relativity [1]
Producer JB, Thelonious Monster [2]
Thelonious Monster chronology
Baby...You're Bummin' My Life out in a Supreme Fashion
(1986)		Next Saturday Afternoon
(1987)		 Stormy Weather
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau B+ [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
New Musical Express 7/10 [5]

Next Saturday Afternoon is the second full-length album by Thelonious Monster. [6] It was released in 1987. [7] It is included on the CD version of Stormy Weather .

Contents

Production

The album was recorded for $2,600. [8] It was the first album to feature Mike Martt on guitar. He and Bob Forrest co-wrote "Anymore". [9]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a bit closer to conventional rock’n’roll and is the better for it," writing that the band "discovered melody, producing musically and lyrically impressive material like 'Next', 'Anymore' and 'Walk on Water'." [10] The Los Angeles Times called the album "a stubbornly independent account of post-teen alienation; a record that mixes folk, jazz, blues and high-speed punk styles without regard to radio programming dictates." [8] The Wisconsin State Journal wrote that the band's "musical style includes radical tempo changes from lazy blues to panicy punk within a single song." [11]

Track listing

  1. Swan Song (3:25)
  2. Lookin' to the West (2:49)
  3. Hang Tough (3:01)
  4. Michael Jordan (2:30)
  5. Low Boy (Butterflies Are Free) (2:47)
  6. Key to Life... Tonight (3:02)
  7. Walk on Water (2:15)
  8. Anymore (3:14)
  9. Saturday Afternoon (2:17)
  10. Zelda (1:10)
  11. Pop Star (2:47)
  12. Tree 'n' Sven Orbit the Planet (4:22)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Perfect Sound Forever: Relativity Records". www.furious.com.
  2. 1 2 MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 1137.
  3. ↑ "Next Saturday Afternoon - Thelonious Monster | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Thelonious Monster". Robert Christgau.
  5. ↑ Barron, Jack (October 31, 1987). "Thelonius Monster: Next Saturday Afternoon". New Musical Express . p. 34.
  6. ↑ "Thelonious Monster | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Eddy, Chuck (August 25, 2016). Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music. Duke University Press. ISBN   9780822373896 – via Google Books.
  8. 1 2 "A GEM FROM L.A.'S ROCK MONSTER". Los Angeles Times. August 16, 1987.
  9. ↑ Pottker, Nate (August 9, 2019) [2017]. "Mike Martt". Thelonious Monster.
  10. ↑ "Thelonious Monster". Trouser Press. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Mixed bag of bands coming to Madison". Wisconsin State Journal: 3. October 1, 1987.
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