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Have Moicy! | 
 enlarge | Artists: Michael Hurley, Peter Stampfel, Jeffrey Frederick
Label: Rounder Select
Category: Music
Buy New: $16.98
New (7) Used (3) from $10.81
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 108374
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 3010
UPC: 011661301023
EAN: 0011661301023
ASIN: B00000031O
Release Date: February 14, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Midnight in Paris - Conrad, Con | | • | Robbin' Banks - Frederick, Jeffrey | | • | Slurf Song - Hurley, Michael | | • | Jackknife/The Red Newt - Frederick, Jeffrey | | • | Griselda - Antonia [1] | | • | What Made My Hamburger Disappear - Frederick, Jeffrey | | • | Sweet Lucy - Hurley, Michael | | • | Country Bump - Stampfel, Peter | | • | Fooey Fooey - Hurley, Michael | | • | Jealous Daddy's Death Song - Antonia [1] | | • | Driving Wheel - Murly, Michael | | • | Weep Weep Weep | | • | Hoodoo Bash - Antonia [1] |
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Amazon.com
Have Moicy! was recorded over the course of three days back in 1975 by the musical equivalent of the Yippies. Leading the way was Holy Model Rounders founder Peter Stampfel, aided and abetted by fellow travelers Michael Hurley and Jeff Fredrick. The lot of them patched together a never-too-cute assortment of country-folk novelty numbers that are playful, irreverent, randy, and ribald ("We fill up our guts and then we turn it into shit and then get rid of it"). Just the sort of stuff folk music had misplaced and desperately needed in order to remain relevant. Singer/songwriters may have become bogged down in self-reflection, but not these loons. Here was Hurley contemplating baked potatoes and pork chops ("The Slurf Song," "Sweet Lucy"). Frederick, meanwhile, fretted his way through "What Made My Hamburger Disappear" and Stampfel wailed with out-of-tune gusto on "Griselda" (indie rockers Yo La Tengo salvaged the latter on its beguiling collection of covers, Fakebook). It's nearly impossible not to like Have Moicy!, and it's damn easy to love it. --Steven Stolder
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
DRIVE YOUR GIRLFRIENDS INSANE September 24, 2008
Folks, this album is legendary. The male hippies i grew up with played this LP so frequently that it was often the biggest point of argument in the household, especially when drugs were in short supply. (times of no money and pot will get you through hard times better than money and no pot). Now, it's 30 years later, and i still remember all the songs and hearing them again is better than a mutual full body orgasm with a juicy college student. If i had to choose between living my life without this album, or without the entire rest of all the music i have or have ever heard, it would be any easy choice. If i have to tell you my choice then you've never heard this album
A Wonderful Album! March 1, 2008
I love the fact that every single review of this album (12 as I write this) is a 5-star rave. This album led the Village Voice Pazz & Jop in 75 or 76 but it still took me 15 more years to get around to buying it. Go ahead and get it -- it's simply wonderful. Goofy and surreal and tons of fun.
A perfect album... December 24, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Take the time to read all of the previous reviews of HAVE MOICY....all are accurate and *still* won't prepare you for the wonderful listening experience that awaits you should you purchase this strange, exhilirating album.Imagine the O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU soundtrack on psychedelics and you're on your own from there. Yippee!!
No collection is complete without 'Have Moicy' October 22, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love this record. There aren't many albums that stick with you like this one. Putting this album on the box is like having your favorite hippy uncle drop by with a bottle of wine and a load of hilarious stories to tell. It's steeped in a rich tradition of American folk strangeness, the seeds of which can be found in the Harry Smith Folkways collection. These are the psychedelic children of the Grand Ol' Opry in an inspired set of eccentric barn dance songs for the cosmically enhanced rock 'n roll farmboy. "Sweet Lucy" will never let you go...You won't regret buying this one, it's a keeper.
An Absurdly Neglected American Musical Classic August 16, 2001
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I first learned of this album by reading through Robert Christgau's collection of seventies record reviews for VILLAGE VOICE. He not only praised this album to the heavens, but named it his number one record of 1975.Over the years, I have recommended this album to one person after another, and it has been heartbreaking to learn how very, very few people know of its existence. Occasionally you will hear one of the songs that first appeared on this album performed by other artists. I recently went to a Yo La Tenga/Eleventh Dream Day double bill, and Yo La Tenga performed "Griselda." The widespread neglect of this album is utterly unmerited by the quality of the music. These songs are witty, funny, silly, absurd, beautiful, and whimsical. None of the tracks on the album are weak, and several stand out. "Midnight in Paris" is one of the funniest songs I know, with some really, really strange lyrics ("Life in a garret/Is fun if you share it" or "I'll use your bidet/And you'll wear my beret"). "Griselda" and "Sweet Lucy" are marvelously sweet tunes. "What Made My Hamburger Disappear" is . . . well, weird. This is a flat out special album. I heartily recommend anyone who loves great folk music to give this one a shot. It won't be quite like anything else you have ever heard.
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