R. Stevie Moore ‎- Next [Cass] (1974)

Like the previous year's Stevie Moore 'Often', 1974's 'Next' marks the transition from R. Stevie Moore's early experimental phase into a much more accessible and pop-oriented framework. Shades of Todd Rundgren's more experimental work of the time ('A Wizard, a True Star', for example) crop up here and there, as do suggestions of Paul McCartney ("Rookie Coma"), Roy Wood ("Ballad of Ethos"), and Sparks (the manic opener "Adult Tree"), but by this point, Moore has managed to coalesce his varied influences into the unique sound that he would continue to refine over the next few decades. Two songs, the shrieky, falsetto "I Not Listening" and the utterly beguiling ballad "Moons" (the delicate middle section of which prefigures a sound that Stereolab would turn into a career nearly two decades later), would appear on Moore's first proper album, 'Phonography', two years later. Of the others, an early version of the sophisticated, almost jazzy instrumental "World's Fair" and the charming acoustic ramble "Topic of Same" are big fan favorites. [SOURCE: ALLMUSIC] 

Label: R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎– Nt10 

Format: Cassette, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1974 

Genre: Rock 

Style: Experimental 

Tracklist: 

A1 Adult Tree 4:20 

A2 Wonderful. Wonderful 4:14 

A3 World's Fair 4:21 

A4 Topic Of Same 4:54 

A5 Europe 4:18 

A6 Stool Pigeons And School Teachers 3:28 

A7 Hot Bloose 5:47 

A8 Ballad Of Ethos 7:12 

A9 Kookie Coma 2:47 

A10 I Still Chase The Women 2:44 

A11 Danny Newberry 3:05 

B1 A Thirst 3:01 

B2 Pop Music 3:24 

B3 Mighty Short Piece 2:52 

B4 Moons 6:00 

B5 New Yorkus 5:18 

B6 I Not Listening 3:33 

B7 Rockets By Two 6:08 

B8 Quarter Peep Show 3:07 

B9 I Love All The Girls 3:39 

B10 The Fight 5:01 

B11 I Need Your Love 4:49 

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