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| ARTIST: | Various Artists |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Rounder Select |
| FEATURES: | Original recording remastered |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Sadu Man - Tiger, Young Girl's Touch - Atilla, Women Will Rule the World - Atilla, Vagaries of Women - Atilla, Ribs - King Radio, Women Are Good and Women Are Bad - Atilla, Fall of Man - Lion, Monkey - King Radio, Radio Fifty Wives - King Radio, Warning the Children Towards Mother - King Radio, Hold up Black Bird Hold Up - Executor, Friends - Atilla, Martiniquen - Atilla, I Will String Along With You - Atilla, Exploting, Calypso Behind the Wall, Not Me With Martinmony - Atilla, Only Foreigners, Malicious Nighbours - Lion, Womaen Is Not the Weaker Sex - Atilla, Death - Lion, Don't Hide Him Behind the Door, If I Won a Sweepstake - Atilla, Mother's Love, Man Smart (Woman Smarter) - King Radio |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 018964114121 |
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Customer Reviews of Fall of Man: Calypsos on the Human Condition 1935-1941
Death and pestilence never sounded so good! I couldn't give it 5 stars because the quality of the performances is patchy, and because I was spoiled by listening first to a whole CD of Growling Tiger. Still, the spark is there. The recordings are a bit tinny but considering they were made in the 1930s they're pretty good. They are full of wit, wisdom, and women who spend all your money and cheat on you.
One of the highlights of the CD are the Lion's *Fall of Man* You may read its chorus "Through the abuse of the Divine providence, Mankind was doomed to suffer death and pestilence," and scratch your head, but it's hilarious when the Lion sings it, honest. The other song not to miss is the Caresser's *Exploiting* (i.e. "Buy me a Zeppelin").
This is your basic 30s calypso, with the trumpet section playing backup, not the super-traditional bamboo band sound that Alan Lomax recorded later with Growling Tiger (in case that's what you're looking for). Buy it. Love it. They don't make calypso like this anymore.
The Very Best of Golden Age Calypso
Calypso from the 20s, 30s and 40s is my thing. And this is the first Calypso CD of that Golden Age in Trinidad music that I have given a perfect score of 5 stars! This is the definitive collection of calypsos about all the essential topics of that clever, elated medium. As suggested by the title, these masters of calypso largely focus on the battle of the sexes but take the battlefield from a hilarious angle. The infamous Atilla admonishes men to "assert control, or women will rule the world." If he didn't go out of his way to crack you up, you might think he actually feared for his safety in the face of 1930s feminism. He warns that "If women gain their ascendency, They would show us no sympathy, They'd make us do strange things, Goodness knows, Scrub floors or even wash clothes!" Well it seems the apocalypse ole Atilla was dreading has already come and gone, at least at my house. Many of these songs also challenge the hypocricy of the wealthy, take a cynical look at romance, turn a suspicious eye on fair weather friendships. The Gerald Clark Orchestra accompanies many of the tunes recorded at different times with different prominent calypsonians. But the great John Buddy Williams orchestra is here too. These songs are dark gems, heartbreaking and tragicomic. From Tiger's Sadu Man about a man who resorts to the life of a wandering Hindu ascetic after being scorched by romantic betrayal to the haunting but bouncy chorus of Death by the Roaring Lion, there is no escaping the piercing wit of the Fall of Man calypsos.