Lounge Lizards (album)

Lounge Lizards
Studio album by The Lounge Lizards
Released	1981
Recorded	July 21-22, 28-29, 1980 at CBS Recording Studios, New York City
Genre	Avant-garde jazz
Label	EG Records
Producer	Teo Macero
The Lounge Lizards chronology
Lounge Lizards (1981) No Pain for Cakes (1987)

Lounge Lizards is the first album by The Lounge Lizards. It features hectic instrumental jazz. The songs are mostly composed by band leader and saxophone player John Lurie.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by John Lurie except where noted.

1. "Incident on South Street" – 3:21
2. "Harlem Nocturne" – 2:04 (Earle Hagen)
3. "Do The Wrong Thing" – 2:39 (John Lurie, Steve Piccolo)
4. "Au Contraire Arto" – 3:22
5. "Well You Needn't" – 1:53 (Thelonious Monk)
6. "Ballad" – 3:22
7. "Wangling" – 2:58
8. "Conquest of Rar" – 3:12 (John Lurie, Evan Lurie, Anton Fier)
9. "Demented" – 2:01
10. "I Remember Coney Island" – 3:27
11. "Fatty Walks" – 2:51
12. "Epistrophy" – 4:12 (Thelonious Monk, Kenneth Clarke)
13. "You Haunt Me" – 3:40

Personnel

• John Lurie – alto saxophone
• Evan Lurie – keyboards
• Steve Piccolo – bass
• Arto Lindsay – guitar
• Anton Fier – drums
• Frank Laico, Ted Brosnan - engineers
• Peter Saville - design
• Fran Pelzman - photography

References