Owen Maercks - Teenage Sex Therapist (2014)

Owen Maercks’ Teenage Sex Therapist LPs is one of the forgotten twisted pop masterpieces of Twentieth Century. Owen had been in Monster Island with Henry Kaiser, who proposed he do a solo album or his songs. Henry had moved back west by this time, so Owen went out and recorded this album there. Henry produced, and added amazing horn parts by Jon Oswald, Larry Ochs and John Gruntfest. The album was mixed, pressed and distributed exclusively to radio stations, record labels and the like, in hopes of getting Owen signed. The music didn’t fit any extant pigeonhole, however, so no deal was in the offing. About the only note of its passing was made by an A&R guy at Elektra, who swiped the arrangement (and lyric rearrangement) of “Little Black Egg” (originally by the Nightcrawlers) for use by his protegees, the Cars. Well, fuck them. Teenage Sex Therapist is ripe with jawdrop moves. Flashes of Eno, Beefheart, Lou Reed, the Bonzos, and various of Owen’s other obsessions, fight each other for air time. And everyone goes away a winner. If this one doesn’t make your teeth wiggle, you need a new jaw.

TRACKLIST

01. Sleeping With Great Works Of Art
02. Little Black Egg
03. Heart Transplant
04. Information
05. 60 Cycle Hum
06. Asleep And Awake
07. Nancy Calls Collect
08. !Hoh!
09. Intense Young Man
10. Hands And Eyes

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