Tiger Lillies
"Their surreal style has been described as darkly humorous, strangely humorous, random, Brechtian, gypsy cabaret. They are notorious for singing controversial songs involving bestiality, prostitution and blasphemy." -- Wikipedia
"The presentation of their work is equally shocking. Their stage presence with demented makeup and costuming conjures up thoughts of demonic clowns and silent movie zombies, playing arcane instruments, including a drum kit fashioned with kitchen utensils." -- Anonymous review
"It’s hard to pin down the Tiger Lillies’ musical style. Often, it pulls from German cabaret sounds, other times it has been described as circus music. The band’s lyrical concerns float about the macabre and perverted — tales of pimps and hookers and criminals and misfits and violence. " -- AMG
What could be more gruesome, violent or morbid than Victorian kiddie stories? The Tiger Lillies' Shockheaded Peter, is the soundtrack to the critically-acclaimed stage production based on the 1850s book "Struwwelpeter, " a collection of macabre cautionary tales written by Heinrich Hoffmann, a psychiatrist. All the rude, disobedient, fidgety, absent-minded and dirty children come to their ill-fated ends because of their naughty behaviors. This is the stuff real nightmares are made of.The Struwwelperer Overture
The Story of Cruel Frederick
The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches
Bully Boys
The Story of the Man that went out Shooting
Snip Snip
Augustus and the Soup
Fidgety Phil
Johnny Head-in-Air
Flying Robert
Shockheaded Peter
Edward Gorey was a fan of The Tiger Lillies and before his death, he sent them a collection of unreleased drawings and stories which was the basis for The Gorey End. As in Shockhead Peter, all of the characters come to their untimely ends in ways that make it hard to know whether to laugh or cry or ? Unfortunately, Gorey died before this work was completed. The Gorey End was nominated for a Grammy in 2003.
Edward Gorey was a fan of The Tiger Lillies and before his death, he sent them a collection of unreleased drawings and stories which was the basis for The Gorey End. As in Shockhead Peter, all of the characters come to their untimely ends in ways that make it hard to know whether to laugh or cry or ? Unfortunately, Gorey died before this work was completed. The Gorey End was nominated for a Grammy in 2003.The Tiger Lillies with The Kronos Quarter: The Gorey End
Hipdeep Family Intro
ABC
Weeping Chandelier
Jesus on the Windshield
Besotted Mother
Gin
Learned Pig
Hertha Stubb
Dreadful Domesticity
QRV
Histoire De Kay
Trampled Lilly
Hipdeep Family
Bully Boys and Snip Snip
4 comments :
many thanks - looking forward to hearing these. Have never come across this group before but have long been into Gorey's work. sounds fascinating
Thank you so very much for this. Many years ago I ordered a Tiger Lillies cd from a reputable record store here in Australia and received Natalie Merchant's TigerLily lol. Thank you again much appreciated.
The links are backwards. The Gorey title takes you to shockhead and visa versa.
OOPS - The links are fixed now. Thanks for pointing that out.
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