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FINALLY WE HAVE REACHED the Maturation Period (1986-present). It's been a long road, but I think we've all learned some important lessons. Haven't we learned how to love? How to live life to the fullest? How to see the sights of Europe on just $5 a day? So, what does this final period of Chuxxian development tell us about the Chuxx? Well, it illustrates that the four friends, who have known each other since the delightful days of junior high school band (taught by the brother of the drummer for the band America), are still not out of ideas. Even though they now live in four different cities, in three different states, Bobby & the Chuxx are still thriving. The pace is slower, certainly. Where in the past, several albums could be (and were) recorded in one year, now the Chuxx take about two years to crank out a single album. With the exception of Otis, of course. And speaking of Otis Hauls It In, it should be conveyed here just what an ill-fated trip that album was. In retrospect, it was probably hexed. The original idea was to record a double-album, with one disc being all new material and the other being studio-quality remakes, a best-of collection. The title was going to be I'm Funny: A Decade of the Chuxx. As the recording dragged on, the title was amended -- I'm Funny: 1.1 Decades of the Chuxx, 1.2 Decades of the Chuxx, 1.3 Decades of the Chuxx -- until it became apparent the double-disc project just wasn't going to happen. So, it was collapsed into a "regular" release. Another thing was discovered in the course of the recording of Otis: The Chuxx stink at re-recording their older tunes. Not re-interpreting their own music. But simply trying to re-record the songs. Free Shoe Inside!'s "Whistler's Mother/Penguin Rock" is a perfect example. Everything is there...but the original spark. Which is another thing the Chuxx discovered during Otis: You can't spend too much time on a Chuxx song without destroying it. Because the recording process was so lengthy, all the fun got sucked out of the endeavor. And it took eight years for the band to realize they could just go back to the basics and have fun with it again. But this period of the Chuxx isn't dominated by the specter of Otis Hauls It In, nor is it, despite my unseemly focus on it, defined in any way by that album. Not in the least. This period is, in fact, the band's most fruitful, containing some of the all-time classic Chuxx tunes: "Don't Hit Me, I'm Full of Shrimp," "Hey Beerman," "Crusher's Theme," "Dial-A-Rhea," "Totally Nude," "The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald," "Squirrel Highway," "Word Boots" and "The Whiskey What Done It." And despite the troubles surrounding Otis, with the completion of Waking President Wahid, Otis Hauls It In has gained a greater appreciation. It may be the weakest of the five albums in this period, but, as the Chuxx might say, "It's far from being Time Slugs." |
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1986 Bobby & the Chuxx: Bobby Wendalo Schwa Roillieu thos e |
Don't Hit Me, I'm Full of Shrimp Don't Hit Me, I'm Full of Shrimp Hey Beerman! The Butt At Least He's Still Breathing Mother Russia The Even Odder Couple Glen's New Beat The Cabbage Song Walk Erect, You Homo Thinking About Math Camp Flesh Me & the Venn Diagram Jacko in Fishy Boots Life of a Sandwich Patio Guy Chuxx Interview (That's Me) 'N the Toilet |
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1988 Bobby & the Chuxx: Bobby Wendalo Schwa Roillieu thos e |
Free Shoe Inside! That Psych Experiment Crusher's Theme Icky Is as Icky Does Hey Man, You're Dead Slowpoke The Captain's Log Mouseketeer in Hell The Wisdom Tooth The Fish Goes Dial-A-Rhea It's Going to Sting Me Dear Betty & Veronica Whistler's Mother/Penguin Rock Elevator Dinner Yodelin' Andy's Nightmare I'm Nude |
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1990 Bobby & the Chuxx: Bobby Wendalo Schwa Roillieu thos e |
Totally Nude, Crazy Nude Put a Little Meat on Yer Bonez Throw Like a Girl Crazy Nude Problems With My Body The Limp Froggies The Spinal Injury Sequence (haiku) The Wreck of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Totally Nude 300 Cotton Swabs Of a Cereal Box I'm the Rat Again The Black Damp Vamp Block Mother Doggies Multiple Choice |
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1994 Bobby & the Chuxx: Bobby Wendalo Schwa Roillieu thos e |
Otis Hauls It In Otis Hauls It In The Neuro Groove Sauda, Norway 1924 We're Jazzin' Squirrel Highway The Age-Old Argument Don't Hit Me, I'm Full of Shrimp My Baby Wears White Shoes Filth-Inhabiting Flies of Guam Ham & Cigarettes Bastard Candy Man's Got a Do Holes I Lied Larry |
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2002 Bobby & the Chuxx: Bobby Wendalo Schwa Roillieu thos e |
Waking President Wahid Waking the President Elmo's Rock n Roll Guitar Uncle Wheezer's Pure Oxygen Breathing Apparatus for the Masses Word Boots Blitzenkrieg (Santa's Bunker) Somebody Write Some Music X's for Eyes Exes' Four-Eyes Dangerously Steep Escarpment 1,001 Household Uses Joe's Gift to Women I Am the Brain in the Jar Quincy Is "The Mosquito" Curious Buffy Dream The Whiskey What Done It Murder @ the Copa Assistant to Mr. Friendly |
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