Ivor Cutler - Jammy Smears
Ivor Cutler's final album for Virgin Records,'s Jammy Smears,is one of the best releases of his career. Kicking off with the jazzy piano tune Bicarbonate of Chicken,a funny and bizarre dialogue with a waiter,the album runs through 31 brief songs,poems,and surreal short stories like the hilarious Big Jim. About evenly split between recitations and songs like the catchy shaggy dog story Barabadabada and the oddly philosophical Everybody Got,Jammy Smears features more of Cutler's piano playi