What no Red Crayola up in here? WTF is that? And we call ourselves pissers in the mainstream. We had some Mayo but the man made us yank it down. Damn you man! So no better place to intro the K(C)rayola than at the start. Try and make us yank this man!
No more yanky my wanky, Donger need Crayola. Here is.
Allmusic: Red Crayola's debut remains their most celebrated and notorious effort. Although this was categorized as psychedelia when first released, it's more like futuristic avant-noise-rock. Mayo Thompson's flighty songs about hurricane fighter planes and transparent radiation are almost submerged by a cacophony of "free-form freak-out" noise created on kazoos, flutes, harmonica, hammer, jugs, bottles, sticks, and more by a large ensemble of friends dubbed the "Familiar Ugly." Minority opinion holds that the wistfulness of Thompson's tunes (the brittle "War Sucks" excepted) and voice may have been served better by less self-consciously far-out arrangements. (Several of the songs can be heard in more skeletal form on the Epitaph for a Legend compilation). Parable of Arable Land was quite a daring statement for its day, however, with instrumental cameos by Roky Erickson on a couple of tracks. [Sunspot reissued the album on disc in 2003.]
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