Tiger Lillies / Two Penny Opera

 

Tiger Lillies / Two Penny Opera (2001)

 

track list....


01. Moon Over Soho

02. Why (Mackie's Childhood Song)

03. Piss on Your Grave

04. My Daughter

05. Mary

06. Wedding Song

07. Police

08. Bastard

09. Money

10. Depends on Baby

11. Fisheads

12. Darling

13. Hang Tomorrow

14. Your Suicides

15. Bitch

16. Wise

17. Twenty-Five Minutes

18. Finale

19. Divine

 

 

 

 

Credits:
Martyn Jacques - vocals, accordion, piano.
Adrian Huge - drums and percussion.
Adrian Stout - double bass, musical saw, vocals.

This album is not for the faint of heat, nor is for the easily offended.
However, this is both a brilliant restructuring of "Die Dreigroschenoper" and a beautiful, hilarious and horrifying work of high art.

 

 

 

 

 

The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band, formed in 1989 and based in London.
They have toured worldwide and won acclaim with their opera Shockheaded Peter.
Their surreal style has been described as dark, darkly humorous, strangely humorous, Brechtian, and gypsy cabaret.
They are also notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy. In 1999 their work was featured in the film Plunkett & Macleane.
The Tiger Lillies were nominated for a Grammy award for their 2003 album The Gorey End, which was a collaboration of sorts with the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey and the Kronos Quartet.
Their newest show, 7 Deadly Sins, started on 7 April 2008 at the New Players Theatre in London.
The show is based on the traditional seven deadly sins in Catholic theology, and an album was due to be released at the same time.

 

 

 

 

 

It's no secret that "Two Penny Opera" by The Tiger Lillies, is based on Kurt Weill's "Die Dreigroschenoper" (3 penny Opera).
However, this is not simply a strict translation dressed up in modern rags.
Instead, Martyn Jaucques and co. bring the tale of Mackie into the modern age by looking back.
A fine example is the stunning opener "Moon Over Soho," whic is a startling rendition of the famed "Mack the Knife" piece.
Instead of translating it line for line, The Tiger Lillies strip down the strucure and give it a complete makeover, so much that those already familiar with the original song may not immediately recognize it at first.
This is followed by four of what may be some of the finest pieces in the Tiger Lillies canon.
"Piss on Your Grave" especially, is a hilarious track that is presented form the viewpoint of Mackie, as he details the various iconic figures that he has murdered "in exactly the same way."
Later in the album, the Tiger Lillies present an inspired cover of "Twenty-Five Minutes," to both comic and horrifying effect.

 

 

 

 

2 Penny Opera, It's one cheaper.
A new version of the seminal work, Die Dreigroschenoper, focused through the dirty lens of the Tiger Lillies vision.
Love, death, betrayal and redemption on the mean streets of London.
Recorded in London and San Francisco, and with guest guitar from Bad Seed, Blixa Bargeld, 2 Penny Opera also features 25 Minutes to go, unavailable until now.

 

 

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