Released
1998
Label
Workgroup
(Sony)
Reviewed by
Kim Alexander
Contact
Dan Bern
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Dan Bern Web Site
Last Edit/Update
14 February, 1999
Track Listing
1. Tiger Woods
2. One Thing Real
3. No Missing Link
4. Oh Sister
5. Cure For Aids
6. Chick Singers
7. Different Worlds
8. Everybody's Baby
9. One Dance
10. Jesus Freak
11. Monica
12. Rolling Away
Dan
Bern and friends Ani DiFranco, Jason Mercer, Sarah
Lee, Denny Fongheiser, Andy Stochansky, Josh
Zawaduk and Jason Mercer put together an acoustic sound collage
to backup Bern's lyrical mayhem in Fifty Eggs. The sounds
are folksy with a number of guitars: bass, shimmery and rhythm, a few drummers to
spark the fuel and backup vocals and organ (Ani).
If you aren't laughing by the end of the first track on this disk, you
have a really poor sense of humour. The lyrics are a testimony to the rediculous and
profane dogma that mainly western civilization has taken to heart, and all too seriously I
might add. However, Bern also captures the essence of racial
differences in Different Worlds, which accents the differences between not only
black and white, but food, theft, music, hero's, jokes, tv shows and more. No
Missing Link is quite hilarious as Bern spits out that "Aliens
fucked the monkey"....and the Cure For Aids which is also pretty funny in that
a pill was developed to cure aids, and then everyone could go out and have sex with anyone
they wanted again without fear. One Dance is a bit more on the upbeat side,
of course a dance song about a lover without the reciprocal love, "needing only one
dance with you...", and there is another acoustic love song here, Monica, (no
relation to lewinsky), sweet and flowing about "a girl of 16, couldn't have been much
more". Awesome lyrics, great acoustic guitars, bass, percussion, romance,
satire, love and sex. This is Fifty Eggs!
