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Partyball
Studio album by
Stan Ridgway
ReleasedMay 1991
Studio
  • American Recording Co. and The Bakery (North Hollywood, California)
  • Impala (Los Angeles, California)
  • Master Control (Burbank, California)
GenreRock
Length47:19
LabelGeffen
ProducerStan Ridgway
Stan Ridgway chronology
Mosquitos
(1989) 		Partyball
(1991) 		Songs That Made This Country Great
(1992)

Partyball is the third album by Stan Ridgway, released in 1991.[1]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar[3]

Trouser Press wrote that the album "serves up odes to trigger-happy cops, hopeless love, Harry Truman and the atom bomb, otherworldly chain gangs and plague-ridden dystopias, interrupted by odd instrumental interludes that continue Ridgway’s fascination with soundtrack music for invisible movies."[4] The Los Angeles Times called the songs "mainly about the fearsome distortions that come from dominance, power and an unwillingness to acknowledge weakness and vulnerability as our common human lot."[5]

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway

  1. "Watch Your Step/Jack Talked (Like a Man on Fire)" - 4:19
  2. "I Wanna Be a Boss" - 4:52
  3. "Mouthful of Sand/The Roadblock" - 5:31
  4. "Snaketrain" - 3:53
  5. "Right Through You" - 3:45
  6. "The Gumbo Man" - 3:34
  7. "Harry Truman" - 3:51
  8. "Venus Is Hell/Overlords" - 5:39
  9. "O.K?/Uba's House of Fashions" - 4:36
  10. "Bad News at the Dynamite Ranch/Beyond Tomorrow" - 7:19

Personnel

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Adapted from the Partyball liner notes.[6]

  • Stan Ridgway – vocals, backing vocals (1, 9, 10), keyboards (2–6, 8), acoustic guitar (2, 6, 7), guitars (3–5, 8), harmonica (3)
  • Bernard Sauser-Hall – keyboards (1, 7, 9, 10), organ (6)
  • Pietra Wexstun – keyboards (1, 7, 9, 10), backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 9, 10)
  • Jeff Boynton – acoustic piano (5)
  • Mark Schulz – guitars (1, 9, 10), electric guitar (2, 7)
  • Don Teschner – lap steel guitar (4)
  • Joe Ramirez – bass (1, 6, 7, 9), backing vocals (1, 9)
  • David Sutton – bass (2), fretless bass (5)
  • Joseph Berardi – drums (1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10), timpani (1), percussion (6, 8, 10)
  • Jim Hill – additional drum programming, anvil (8)
  • Elmo Smith – saxophone (3, 8)
  • Beth Anderson – backing vocals (2)
  • John Batdorf – backing vocals (2)
  • Larry Grennan – backing vocals (2, 10)
  • Evon Williams – backing vocals (2)

Production

  • Stan Ridgway – producer
  • Jim Hill – engineer, recording, mixing (1.1, 2–9.2, 10.1)
  • Joe Chiccharelli – mixing (1.2, 9.2, 10.2)
  • Andrew Ballard – second engineer
  • Bill Cooper – second engineer
  • Mike Green – second engineer
  • Alan Yoshida – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
  • Beth Escott – art direction, design
  • Kevin Reagan – Geffen art direction
  • Rocky Schenck – photography

Chart positions

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Singles

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Year Title Peak Chart positions
US
Mod[7]
1991 "I Wanna Be a Boss" 13

References

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  1. ^ "Stan Ridgway | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Thomas Erlewine, Stephen. "allmusic ((( Partyball > Review )))". AllMusic. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 21.
  4. ^ "Stan Ridgway". Trouser Press. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  5. ^ "POP MUSIC REVIEWS : Thought-Provoking Set From Stan Ridgway". Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1991.
  6. ^ Partyball (booklet). Stan Ridgway. Los Angeles, California: Geffen Records. 1991.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ^ "Stan Ridgway Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2009.[dead link]