Word: hydrahead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album kicks off with a track that never made it to Bedtime Stories, Baerwald's fine solo debut: A Secret Silken World, a chronicle of a Saturday- night pickup. Then it ricochets into The Got No Shotgun HydraHead Octopus Blues, which takes up -- with pulsing drums and crunching guitar -- the matter of reciprocal footsie between government and drug dealers. The record is not an editorial, however. Baerwald is not interested in pointing fingers; he wants to nail a mood of corruptive malaise and the autoeroticism of power. One of the record's spookiest and loveliest songs, The Postman, takes...
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