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| The Gorey End | 
 enlarge | Artists: Tiger Lillies, Kronos Quartet
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $9.82
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 61782
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 57513
UPC: 724355751324
EAN: 0724355751324
ASIN: B00008XRSX
Release Date: September 16, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Hipdeep Family Intro | | • | ABC | | • | Weeping Chandelier | | • | Jesus On The Windshield | | • | Besotted Mother | | • | Gin | | • | Learned Pig | | • | Hertha Strubb | | • | Dreadful Domesticity | | • | QRV | | • | Histoire De Kay | | • | Trampled Lilly | | • | Hipdeep Family |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 A bizarre yet satisfying album! February 8, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you like avante-garde cabaret music with a morbid twist, this is the album for you. A joint collaboration between the Tiger Lillies and the Kronos Quartet, the songs are based on poems by Edward Gorey.
I do not.... December 15, 2006
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
...normally play string with my girlfriend's cat while naked, gradually working both her (the cat) into a fearful frenzy before my own faux-waltz of lip-syncing grandeur.
Now that I have the perfect music to do it to, this may change.
I only wish my girlfriend loved it half as much as her cat loves that string.
I first came across The Tiger Lillies years ago on, of all things, a Satanic Internet radio station, and have found myself returning to them periodically, trying to be frugal with my music budget, knowing (as happened with the late great Gorey) that novelty can turn to addictive brilliance before your credit card can say:
"Well, hello again."
The higher price of imports helps, but I fear this album won't sustain me for long, long and graceful as the vocals are, encircling the wind keys, wrist strings, and waif skins that live forever. A mad old heiress disguises herself as one libertine commoner, then wails watery makeup into the corpse of the one she eats, and dies, but her spirit will weaken, then cling to you like a starving orphan.
Originally Skeptic... November 6, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
But now converted... I was attracted to this CD because the songs are musical versions of Edward Gorey stories. I have to confess that at first I did not know what to do with the music, how to categorize it I mean... but because the stories are great and funny, the music grew on me and now I love the CD. I listen to it almost every day, at least my favorite songs:
Weeping Chandelier (great tango!!!), Besotted Mother (a delightful waltz... ja!), Gin (that rhythm makes me want to dance), Hertha Strubb (crazy!!!), QRV (what is QRV? Anyway, the kids love it) and Trampled Lilly (romantic, sad and dark, veeeery dark)
If you do not have an obscure humor, a taste for experimental music and if you are expecting classical music or something of that source, this is not the CD for you.
But for everyone else, I recommend it widely...
 Gothic Cabaret? August 30, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once you get past the falsetto Lotte-Lenya-meets-Kevin-Coyne voice, you can concentrate on the meta-Gorey lyrics. The words come from original Gorey texts that have been liberally adapted. If anything, they emphasise the commonalities with the world of Charles Addams. The musical style is, as the group itself says, avant-garde cabaret. The Kronos Quartet, despite being co-stars, do not seek to upstage the Tiger Lilies.
Definitely recommended for Gorey fans and Goths who love serious (?) cabaret (if you are out there).
almost accessable March 13, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Tiger Lillies are a trio,who play a slightly demented cabaret
style of music. Just the perfect band to put Edward Gorey's lyrics to music. They use accordian, banjo, sting bass, snare drum and even ukulele to achieve a unique sound.
This recording adds the Kronos Quartet on 9 of the 13 tracks and
They really fill out the sound nicely. One caveat; Martyn Jaques
singing. It's a dramatic falsetto, with lots of rrrroled "R's".
But if you are a fan of Gorey you can probably accept his voice
on it's own terms. This is not as raw as other TL releases.
Recommended for the adventurous listener.
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