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Keep Your Wig On (Fastball) Album Songs

NoSong TitleTime
1.Shortwave 1:13
2.Lou-Ee Lou-Ee 2:52
3.Drifting Away 3:46
4.Airstream 3:29
5.I Get High 3:35
6.Perfect World 3:35
7.Til I Get It Right 4:55
8.Our Misunderstanding 3:20
9.Someday 3:24
10.Mercenary Girl 2:41
11.Falling Upstairs 3:36
12.Red Light 3:17

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- What happened to the good old days?

Come one Fastball, you're better than this. . .You guys need to take it back to your roots man.

- Keep Your Wig One - Fastball

Tons of hooks, strong melodies and strong writing make this my favorite Fastball CD. Each song pretty much stands on its own and is unique. "Drifting Away" is pure rock pleasure. Music too clever for most radio stations.

- Fabulous

Their best effort yet. Contains a variety of hit-quality songs. Definitely worth a few thousand listens.

- Love this band, Really loved this album

This band is one of the most underappreciated bands of our time. The music they create is top notch, and Scalzo and Zuniga to me are the best harmonizers and song writing duo since Lennon/McCartney. Here is a quick synapsis of each track. Joey Schufield is as steady as they come on the drums. I have seen this band live 3 times and they put on a nice show. New album "Little White Lies" due out in April of 2009, and I cant wait. Shortwave - A short ditty with Tony and Miles harmonizing nicely Lou Ee Lou Ee - Tony on lead with a hard pop sound that is very catchy. Drifting Away - A more medodic stroll, and that is relatively mindless fun. Airstream - Miles ode to getting away from it all in our favorite chrome RV from back in the day. I get High - A very pop bluesy kind of feel to it done nicely by Tony Perfect World - Very Lennonesque writing and performed beautifully by Miles. I think alot of us know someone like this. Till I get it Right - If this song got any airplay it would of been number one for months. Its absolete gem! Our Misundertanding - A beautiful ballad sung by Miles and Tony. Their harmonies here remind me of Simon and Garfunkel and Lennon and McCartney Someday - Another lennonesque Miles track done nicely Mercenary Girl - A country number for those of you like that, I didnt care for it. They had this song on their Live from Jupitar Record where its just done as an acoustic number and that I loved. Falling Upstairs - Probably my favorite track on the album. Such a great love song, written by a true romantic and sung from the heart by Tony. Red Light - Miles dishing out a fun slice of his mexican heritiage.

- Keep Your Wig On!!

This is by far their best album! Some of the songs may not be good by themselves but as an album they are great! Why everybody loves "All the Pain..." so much makes no sense. I bought It and was very let down. This album is great I highly reccomend it! And if you don't want to buy the whole album try "Lou-ee Lou-ee" "Drifting Away" "Airstream" "Perfect World" "Til I get it Right" and "Red Light!"

- Typical FastBall

Not that I've had that much experience with them. But it seems like a solid effort. Worth the listen.

- This Album rules

This album is really good. I just cant get enough of it.. IT RULES

- Eh....Heard better.

I love Fastball and I've been following them for a long time, and I've seen them live (which they were awesome!), but Keep Your Wig On not their best album. There are some hot spots like Lou-Ee Lou-Ee, Drifting Away, Airstream, Perfect World, and Till I Get It Right. The rest don't even bother. Corny lyrics and horn arrangments. It's a dissapointing album when you compare the other 3 Fastball albums Make Your Mama Proud, All The Pain Money Can Buy and Harsh Light Of Day. If you're looking for a good album from start to finish don't bother with Keep Your Wig On because tt doesn't live up to Fastball's potential. They should go back to their old sound. So everyone I recommend buying the songs that I listed, and Keep the rest of Your Money In Your Pocket!

- Fastball get better with every album

This is an incredible follow up to Harsh Light of Day. Both Scalzo's and Zuniga's song writing matures on this album from previous albums, perhaps mostly due to Scalzo and Zuniga collaborating ion a majority of the album instead of writing their own material. Scalzo's lone effort is perhaps the most commercial song on the album, Drifting Away is pure pop gold. Zuniga's efforts are more subdued, yet still incredibly catchy with Perfect World and Someday. Where the album shines though are in their collaborations. Lou-ee Lou-ee, I Get High, Til I Get it Right and Our Misunderstaning are all great, but the best of thier collaborations has to be the Beatles Revolver'esque Falling Upstairs. The best song on the album by far is Zuniga's collaboration with Al Anderson (NRBQ) on Airstream. Mercenery Girl and Redlight are perhaps the weakest songs on the album, but that could be because they step away from the norm of previous Fastball albums and incorporate some country/rumba influences. Overall this is an incredibly underlooked album and I recommend any Fastball fan to purchase it or anybody who likes tight pop song writing.

- small correction!

The official blurb above talks about the group "taking a few years off" as if the album "Harsh Light of Day" (2000) never existed. Oops! DackAttack, in his fine review of "Keep Your Wig On", at least discusses its predecessor (without naming it), but I think he far overstates its bleakness.

- 90's pop/rock personified, adamantly refusing die...

While to most it happened after "Out of My Head" slid off the charts, Fastball seemed to fall off the face of the earth, even for those who were looking for them after their follow-up album The Harsh Light of Day commercially failed. The record briefly peaked at #97, despite some lukewarm-at-best radio attention for the disc's piano-driven lead single, "You're an Ocean", featuring professional ivory-tickling legend Billy Preston and some of the group's sharpest songwriting. The rest of that album failed to keep it that crisp, sinking into a smog of a gin-goggle glaze and a hash-smoke screen. It was Fastball at their most desolate, but they managed to keep the hooks intact and gripping, amounting to a good album by any rock 'n' roll standards, but it was undeniably bleak—which is why it didn't come as a surprise when guitarist and songwriting partner-in-crime Miles Zuniga called it quits and headed out to Nashville. At some point, Fastball reformed, complete with Miles and their disheartening cloud of gloom. Dropped by Hollywood Records, their web site at the time seemed to be conceived by Chapters 1 through 3 of "HTML for Dummies", MS Paint and a forty of Captain Morgan. A bitmap of a shotgun produced a "Russian Roulette" of new demos, all of them just as dismal as Harsh Light, and the performances were subdued on each track except "Airstream", where an honest sweeping chorus broke through the smog, gasping for just an ounce of fresh air, in more ways than just lyrically. But nonetheless, it seemed unlikely that one would ever find a disc of theirs in a store again. But then, something wonderful happened. Our good friends at Rykodisc threw our favorite Austin trio a line and shortly after, out comes Keep Your Wig On. And that's just what the boys do. After the opener, the hazy "Shortwave", the guitars kick in—not too loud, just loud enough—and the good times roll. This is Fastball with the crystal-clean-but-not-overprocessed production that they almost achieved on All the Pain Money Can Buy. And some of the bitmap-gun demos are even resurrected and polished. "Red Light", the closer, is given a Mariachi brass flare, turned into a true samba-rockin' dance number. (And let this be a message to all bands that you don't HAVE to end your records on near-flatlining ballads.) There are highlights on this record, to be sure. As you can probably ascertain from the previous two paragraphs, Airstream is just tear-jerkingly beautiful here, but Louie, Louie (not a cover, and the spelling varies depending what you're reading) is upbeat and quite possibly more fun than the guys have been on their last two outings. 'Til I Get it Right follows in the same vein, but in a minor key and a standing challenge not to crank your stereo way the hell up to. (Plus, who doesn't love out-of-left-field saxophone solos in rock tunes?) Drifting Away, I Get High, Our Misunderstanding, Perfect World... these all sound like classic Fastball tunes but they've tightened their songwriting and their playing to where they're making their sonic point more crisply and perfectly than they ever have. And it's this that makes these highlights tough to pinpoint, the album is never really weak after Shortwave ends, and there isn't a track from there on out that doesn't beg for repeated listening of some sort. If a phoenix could really rise up from the ashes before your very eyes, it would probably look like this album sounds. Because Keep Your Wig On is 90's pop/rock personified, adamantly refusing die... and presenting an airtight 40-minute delightful argument why it—and Fastball—are not going anywhere.

- Fun to sing

I sang this song on my YouTube channel (Dara Teaches How to Play)

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