I Hope You're Sitting Down / Jack's Tulips (2021 Reissue)

Back in 1994, when Lambchop first lurched lackadaisically into public view, they seemed to many people freakish, outlandish, destined at best for the pages of photocopied fanzines and the graveyard hours of specialist radio stations. A sprawling collective of Nashville musicians —eleven were credited on the sleeve of I Hope You’re Sitting Down / Jack’s Tulips, one of them apparently responsible for “open-end wrenches” —they’d named themselves after a sock puppet, inexplicably given their album two titles, and stuck a painting on the cover of a small, barefooted child holding a dog whose cock and balls are on proud display. Perhaps to counteract this bold depiction of canine masculinity, the inner sleeve offered a black-and-white shot of what the more refined sometimes call a “lady garden.” The back cover offered a painting detail of a wedding dress. So far, so weird.

Released: December 2021
Cat: SLANG50403
Label: City Slang

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Tracklist

1. Begin
2. Betweenus
3. Soaky In The Pooper
4. Because You Are The Very Air He Breathes
5. Under The Same Moon
6. I Will Drive Slowly
7. Oh What A Disappointment
8. Hellmouth
9. Bon Soir, Bon Soir
10. Hickey
11. Breathe Deep
12. So, I Hear You're Moving
13. Let's Go Bowling
14. What Was He Wearing?
15. Cowboy On The Moon
16. Or Thousands Of Prizes
17. The Pack Up Song