The Swirling Eddies – The Midget, The Speck And The Molecule (CD, 2007, Stunt) Daniel Amos band
Guest [Special Guest Eddie] – Eddie DeGarmo
Illustration [Illustrations By] – Camarillo Eddy
Layout – Eric Townsend, Jason Townsend, Simeon Krease
Performer [The Swirling Eddies] – Berger Roy Al, Camarillo Eddy, Derry Air, Judy Ism, Newt York Newt York, Picky Swelly, Spot
Producer [Produced By] – Camarillo Eddy, The Swirling Eddies
Recorded By, Mixed By – Derry Air
Songwriter [All Songs Written By] – Terry Scott Taylor*
ABOUT THE ALBUM
The Midget, the Speck, and the Molecule (2007). This comeback record is only technically a Swirling Eddies album—of the original Eddies, only Camarillo, Spot, and Berger Roy Al appear. The record is filled in by a variety of new Eddies, whom I take to be the members of the Choir plus Mike Roe. Also, Eddie De Garmo sings backing vocals, suggesting he’s got a better sense of humor about 220px-Themidgetthe Eddies’ covers of “I Use the J Word” and “God Good, Devil Bad” than we might have assumed.
The album, not to put too fine a point on it, is all about success and failure—which, as “It All Depends” suggests, may be two names for the same thing. “Giants in the Land” presents an aging rock band “playing badass licks while they lose their looks”; “A Medley of Our Hit” is maybe the angriest Eddies song ever, criticizing the band’s own fans for their impatience before concurring, with St. Paul, that “this is really nothing at all”; and “My Cardboard Box” is a winking look at what life as an aging Christian singer/songwriter is really like.
Like Daniel Amos’s comeback record, Dig Here, Said the Angel, Midget rocks harder than anything in the Swirling Eddies catalogue—but there are also a number of more psychedelic moments, especially in “Salton Sea” and “Madonna Inn,” both of which are named after California, uh, landmarks. The title track also qualifies, returning to the vanishing hitchhiker imagery of “Urban Legends” in an entirely different musical genre.
1 It All Depends 5:31
2 The Midget, The Speck And The Molecule 3:48
3 Madonna Inn 3:31
4 Giants In The Land 3:20
5 Salton Sea 4:16
6 My Cardboard Box 3:23
7 Snow In A Can 4:16
8 Medley Of Our Hit 3:57
9 Tremolo 3:35
10 A Humble Man Rises 3:47
11 This Is The Title / The Old Hitchhiker 5:00
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