''Partyball'' is the third album by

Stan Ridgway Stanard "Stan" Ridgway (born April 5, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original le ...

, released in 1991.

Critical reception

'' 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." 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."

Track listing

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

Personnel

Adapted from the ''Partyball'' liner notes. *Stan Ridgway - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals *Mark Schulz - guitar *Joe Ramirez - bass guitar *Bernard Sauser-Hall, Pietra Wexstun - keyboards *Joseph Berardi - drums *Beth Anderson, Evon Williams, John Batdorf, Larry Grennan - background vocals *Elmo Smith - saxophone *Don Teshner - steel guitar on "Snaketrain" *David Sutton - bass guitar on "Right Through You" *Jeff Boynton - piano on "Right Through You"

Chart positions

Singles

References

{{Authority control 1991 albums Stan Ridgway albums Geffen Records albums