Visions of Excess

Visions of Excess
Studio album by the Golden Palominos
Released	1985
Recorded	Radio City Music and Evergreen Studio Hall Studio
Genre	Post-punk
Length	37:09
Label	Celluloid[1]
Producer	Anton Fier
The Golden Palominos chronology
The Golden Palominos (1983) Visions of Excess (1985) Blast of Silence (1986)

Visions of Excess is the second album by the Golden Palominos.[2][3] The band's line-up was substantially different from their first album.[4] It includes a cover of Moby Grape's "Omaha", with Michael Stipe singing lead.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Robert Christgau	B+[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]

Trouser Press called Visions of Excess "a brilliant neo-pop album of tuneful, lyrical songs."[3] John Leland at Spin wrote, "The generally stellar accompaniment occasionally gets buried in the blustery mix. But more often, it gets subsumed in songwriting that is sometimes just adequate.[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Boy (Go)"	Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Michael Stipe	5:30
2.	"Clustering Train"	Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Michael Stipe	6:07
3.	"Omaha"	Skip Spence	3:11
4.	"The Animal Speaks"	Robert Kidney	4:07
5.	"Silver Bullet"	Jack Bruce, Paul Cullum, Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Syd Straw	5:09
6.	"(Kind of) True"	Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Syd Straw	4:47
7.	"Buenos Aires"	Anton Fier, Nicky Skopelitis, Syd Straw	3:48
8.	"Only One Party"	Anton Fier, Jody Harris, Arto Lindsay	4:30

Alternative album cover

Personnel

• Anton Fier – drums, DMX, percussion (all tracks)[9]
• Bill Laswell – bass guitar (all tracks)[9]
• Jody Harris – guitars, slide guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)[9]
• Richard Thompson – guitars (tracks 1, 5, 6, 7)[9]
• Mike Hampton  – guitar (track 2)[9]
• Henry Kaiser – guitars (track 3)[9]
• Nicky Skopelitis – guitars (track 7)[9]
• Arto Lindsay – guitar, Vocals (Track 8) [9]
• Chris Stamey – guitar, piano, vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6)[9]
• Bernie Worrell – Hammond organ (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)[9]
• Carla Bley – Hammond organ (track 7)[9]
• Syd Straw – vocals (tracks 1, 5, 6, 7)[9]
• Michael Stipe – vocals (tracks 1, 2, 3)[9]
• Jack Bruce – vocals, harp (track 5)[9]
• John Lydon – vocals (track 4)[9]

References

1. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 285.
2. Buckley, Peter (August 14, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
3. "Golden Palominos". Trouser Press. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
4. Popson, Tom (14 March 1986). "PALOMINOS HEAD TOWARD CHICAGO". chicagotribune.com.
5. Ankeny, Jason. "Visions of Excess". AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
6. Christgau, Robert. "The Golden Palominos: Visions of Excess". Robert Christgau.com. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
7. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
8. John Leland (December 1985). "Spins". Spin. No. 8. p. 30.
9. Visions of Excess (album jacket). The Golden Palominos. New York, New York: Celluloid Records. 1985. Cell 6118.

External links

• Visions of Excess at Discogs (list of releases)