Charlie (Melt-Banana album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Charlie
Type = studio
Artist = Melt-Banana


Released = October 27 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Noise rock
Length = 35:36
Label = A-Zap
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:knfqxqljldke link]
Last album = "Scratch Or Stitch"
(1995)
This album = "Charlie"
(1998)
Next album = "MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity"
(1999)

"Charlie" is the third album by Melt-Banana. This album was the first release on their own label, A-Zap.

"Charlie" marks a change in Melt-Banana's sound, the songs have gotten longer and a more "poppy" sound which would be further developed on the next few albums is present. Charlie is still very noisy though and could be the best mix of their rough noisier past and their future accessible pop sound. The production was also a major step forward since the previous two albums had quite poor sound and production.

"Charlie" features guest appearances by Mike Patton and Mr. Bungle on the song "Area 877" [Phoenix Mix] . Mike Patton says: "MELT... BANANA!" at the beginning of the song and Melt-Banana have sampled this through many of their other songs including "7.2 Seconds Flipping", "Brick Again" and the version of "Bad Gut Missed Fist" on their live album "MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles At Light Velocity".

"Charlie" was named after the movie Charly, based on the novel Flowers for Algernon. [Aniway interview - http://www.zenlog.com/artists/mxbx/]

Track listing

# "Introduction for Charlie" – 3:10
# "Circle-Jack (Chase the Magic Words, Lego Lego)" – 2:39
# "Spathic!!" – 2:29
# "Tapir's Flown Away" – 2:36
# "F.D.C. for Short" – 1:23
# "Taen Taen Taen (?)" – 0:44
# "Cannot" – 2:50
# "Area 877 [Phoenix Mix] " – 1:41
# "Giggle on the Stretcher" – 0:49
# "Section Eight" – 3:49
# "Drug Store" – 1:56
# "Stimulus for Revolting Virus" – 2:00
# "Excess" – 1:42
# "Chipped Zoo on the Wall, Wastes in the Sky..." – 7:48

There is also an untitled track hidden in the Pregap available only by "rewinding" from track 01. It is a cover of the song "Neat Neat Neat" by The Damned. It is 2 minutes and 14 seconds long then a minute of silence.

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