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Fuzzy Little Piece of the World

Fuzzy Little Piece of the World is an album by the American band the Pontiac Brothers, released in 1992.[2][3] A one-time reunion album, the band recorded it because they missed playing together.[4][5] They supported the album with a North American tour.[6]

Fuzzy Little Piece of the World
Studio album by
the Pontiac Brothers
Released1992
StudioThe Sound Factory
LabelFrontier[1]
ProducerPaul du Gré, The Pontiac Brothers
The Pontiac Brothers chronology
Johnson
(1988) 		Fuzzy Little Piece of the World
(1992)

Production

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The album was produced by Paul du Gré and the band.[7] Fuzzy Little Piece of the World was put together in a month, with recording taking place over six days in July 1992.[8][9] "Liberace's Dead" is a tribute to Liberace.[10]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [11]
Los Angeles Times    [12]

Trouser Press wrote that, "though apparently conceived as a casual one-off, the album retains the balance of beery abandon and wounded introspection that originally made the band special, while maintaining the requisite level of tunefulness on numbers like 'Cry' and 'Clowns Join the Circus'."[13] Rolling Stone called Fuzzy Little Piece of the World "an album of bittersweet celebration, one that evinces an absurdist's sense of camaraderie through minor gems such as 'Suicide Note' and 'Clowns Join the Circus'."[14]

The Los Angeles Times concluded that the album "comes across as a now-raucous, now-sentimental Irish wake for a dead rock band, in which the four guys who are supposed to be in the coffin get to enjoy the delicious privilege of popping out of the box to drain a few drams and lead the festivities of mourning"; the paper later deemed it one of the 25 best Orange County albums of the 1990s.[12][15] The St. Petersburg Times determined that "the unit is not as Stonesy or bluesy as before."[16]

AllMusic wrote that "the overall tone is, surprisingly enough, sentimental—friendship is a recurring theme on this album, and on the closing I-miss-my-buddies number, 'Being With You', you almost imagine someone would burst into tears if not for being all drunk and giggly."[11]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Cry" 
2."Clowns Join the Circus" 
3."Hard to Tell" 
4."Rock Music" 
5."Suicide Note" 
6."Rockabilly Revolution #9" 
7."Feelgood" 
8."Fuzzy Little Piece of the World" 
9."Little Big Man" 
10."Last Saturday" 
11."Liberace's Dead" 
12."Little by Little" 
13."Being with You" 

References

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  1. ^ Heim, Chris (16 Oct 1992). "Rock roundup". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. P.
  2. ^ "The Pontiac Brothers Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  3. ^ Boehm, Mike (6 Aug 1992). "Limited Recall: Pontiac Brothers Ride Again, for a One-Shot Recording Project". OC Live. Los Angeles Times. p. 10.
  4. ^ "The Pontiac Brothers". Perfect Sound Forever. Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  5. ^ Niesel, Jeff (Jan 10, 1997). "Distilling his music to its best". Orange County Register. p. F48.
  6. ^ DeLuca, Dan (30 Oct 1992). "Pontiac Brothers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 24NJ.
  7. ^ "Album Reviews — Fuzzy Little Piece of the World by the Pontiac Brothers". Billboard. Vol. 104, no. 50. Dec 12, 1992. p. 48.
  8. ^ Phoenix, William (November 25, 2010). "The Pontiac Brothers: Listen Again". LA Music Examiner. Los Angeles Examiner.
  9. ^ Boehm, Mike (8 Aug 1992). "Pontiacs Play One for the Road". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
  10. ^ Cohen, Jason (3 Jan 1993). "Reunion album a wry merger of R&B, full-force rock". Asbury Park Press. p. E5.
  11. ^ a b "Fuzzy Little Piece of the World". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-23.
  12. ^ a b Boehm, Mike (22 Oct 1992). "Plums-but No Pumpkins-in This Batch of New Releases". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
  13. ^ "Pontiac Brothers". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
  14. ^ McLeese, Don (Feb 18, 1993). "Recordings — Fuzzy Little Piece of the World by the Pontiac Brothers". Rolling Stone. No. 650. p. 59.
  15. ^ Boehm, Mike (29 Sep 1999). "Take a Spin Through the '90s and Revisit the Decade's Best O.C. Pop". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 1.
  16. ^ "The Pontiac Brothers – Fuzzy Little Piece of the World". Weekend. St. Petersburg Times. 11 Dec 1992. p. 19.
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