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The Second Coming

by: Napoleon Xiv

Release Date March 26, 1996
This is a truly odd CD. Napoleon XIV drifts from childhood at 43 to near psychosis, with perhaps the sanest track on the entire album being a hymn to the redemptive qualities of Iowa pot ("I owe a lot/To Iowa pot/And I don't mean Iowa corn"). We are taken to places in which the nuts hunt the squirrels, and in which the girl who pre-empted the psychosis from which most of the tracks seem to derive pops up repeatedly, in various forms:on one, she is a photograph on the wall - unfortunately, being as how she's gone, the photo transmorgrifies into a window, and the song peters out in a shower of broken glass and the thud of a falling body. In the single "They're coming to take me away", and its sequel, "They're coming to ... Read More:

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They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! [CASSETTE]

by: Napoleon XIV

Release Date October 17, 1990
This is a truly odd CD. Napoleon XIV drifts from childhood at 43 to near psychosis, with perhaps the sanest track on the entire album being a hymn to the redemptive qualities of Iowa pot ("I owe a lot/To Iowa pot/And I don't mean Iowa corn"). We are taken to places in which the nuts hunt the squirrels, and in which the girl who pre-empted the psychosis from which most of the tracks seem to derive pops up repeatedly, in various forms:on one, she is a photograph on the wall - unfortunately, being as how she's gone, the photo transmorgrifies into a window, and the song peters out in a shower of broken glass and the thud of a falling body. In the single "They're coming to take me away", and its sequel, "They're coming to ... Read More: