The Tiger Lillies
Freakshow


5.0
classic

Review

by DoofusWainwright USER (99 Reviews)
March 1st, 2017 | 45 replies


Release Date: 2009 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Doof's Flying Circus

The most educational album I've ever had the good fortune to encounter, here's a selection of the invaluable insights I've taken from 'Freakshow' and then applied to my own life:

1. The Freaks / whenever a snake woman gargles down a man's semen she promptly sheds her skin afterwards. This is a nature thing.

2. Snake Woman / a snake woman who earns a living giving blow jobs will have foul tasting saliva. Cums with the territory.

3. High Heel Shoes / there's always been a huge demand for high grade human fat on the black market. Yes, way before Fight Club and Beth Ditto made it fashionable.

4. Avarice / money won't tingle your taste buds but that doesn't stop it feeling hella good when you lick and gobble it.

5. Matchstick Man / a midget will welcome having as many children as possible as this will greatly increase the proportion of people in their life who physically have to look up at them.

6. Lobotomy / personal hygiene will plummet in the freshly lobotomised patient and what's worse is that they won't notice any difference.

7. Bleeding Lady / I'd pay good money to watch a woman slowly bleed to death, especially if I'm allowed to poke her with a stick.

8. Three-Legged Jake / a weak willed dog will stay with its master even if the owner cuts off one of its legs. This has been proven in countless scientific trials.

9. Three Pairs of Arms / if you possessed three pairs of arms you'd probably be as interesting dead as you were alive and are an absolute dead cert for a posthumous embalming. Same thing if you die with a twelve inch erect penis.

10. Deathless Man / it wouldn't take long for living forever to seriously suck. You'd already be clinically depressed before reaching 120 years of age.

11. Miracle Cure / desperate people will pay whatever it takes yo. You got 'em by the ghoulies.

12. Flipper Boy / don't put a vampiric half man/half fish in the same tank as nubile teenage mermaids. This isn't Waterworld, he won't be as polite as Kevin Costner, he'll drain them dry given the merest sniff of an opportunity.

13. The Wind and the Rain / it is imperative for the successful pimp to set up a reliable scouting network for fresh talent, there's no room for sentimentality in this industry.

14. Dreams / if you're asleep in a long term coma the most fantastical dream you can have is of waking up.

15. Hairy Man / a stage 5 hairy man won't produce hair covered turds but they will shed enough fur when seated on a toilet to block it within a matter of minutes.

16. Rosa with Three Hearts / having three hearts is no guarantee of a person's longevity.

17. Ugly Joe / all Adolf Hitler's best friends were ugly and had dirty bums (this is historically factual).

18. The News / the X-Men story was actually based on the persecution of freaks in a circus rather than anything racial, whatever Spike Lee says.

19. Together Forever / only freaks are admitted into heaven. Relax, an active Sputnik account is the equivalent of a VIP pass, they'll even fast track you past the queues at the pearly gates.

20. Normo / sometimes very weird people manage to maintain a conventional relationship for a significant period of time. Just look at that degenerate ugly pervert slime Tom Cruise if you are in any doubt.

I hope you took something from this to apply to your own life, please share your own journeys in the comments box below. Peace be with you.




Sent from my iPhone (baby)



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Comments:Add a Comment 
DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yes, I'm only reviewing Tiger Lillies albums until I'm made staff.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

And I haven't ruled out doing them all Track by Track from now on.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

They have 31 albums....so far I've reviewed three of them.

FullOfSounds
March 1st 2017


15821 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Finally 5'd it. Nice Doof, I'll read later

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks FoS, probably my best ever review

FullOfSounds
March 1st 2017


15821 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

You really outdid yourself with this one!

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Lol, the band did all the heavy lifting, lyrics are awesome

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Track Ranking/Ratings



1. Flipper Boy [5/5]

2. Together Forever [5/5]

3. Normo [5/5]

4. Bleeding Lady [4.5/5]

5. Snake Woman [4.5/5]

6. Deathless Man [4/5]

7. Lobotomy [4/5]

8. Wind and the Rain [4/5]

9. Dreams [4/5]

10. The Freaks [4/5]

11. High-heel Shoes [4/5]

12. Three-legged Jake [4/5]

13. Matchstick Man [4/5]

14. Avarice [3.5/5]

15. Miracle Cure [3.5/5]

16. Three Pairs of Arms [3.5/5]

17. Rosa [3/5]

18. The News [3/5]

19. Hairy Man [2.5/5]

20. Ugly Joe [2.5/5]

TwigTW
March 1st 2017


3934 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

A double album this time... I'm ready to listen and learn.

TwigTW
March 1st 2017


3934 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

"1. The Freaks / whenever a snake woman gargles down a man's semen she promptly sheds her skin afterwards. This is a nature thing."



lol, Ok, I've learned too much already.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Whoever reads this review will be changed.



I'm coming to the conclusion that the Tiger Lillies might not be the best band in the world but they're definitely in the top 1

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
March 1st 2017


10037 Comments


You've change my life doof, thank you

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ha, glad to hear it AitB (now sign the petition to get me on staff so we can all move on from this embarrassing oversight)



Next up will be the debut I'm thinking, read a lot of interviews with Jaques recently so there'll be a bit of background/some choice quotes in the review.



He lived it, that's for sure.

TwigTW
March 1st 2017


3934 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Only half-way through, but this is the most straight-forward rock album I've heard from them so far . . . Nice review by the way, this is the perfect album for that format.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Twig, it's that sort of deal, the songs are all straightforward and story based so thought the track by track format served this one better



The review for the debut will be more conventional - that ones a 4.5, and totally different to the others I've reviewed so far. Some of its almost conventional/pretty sounding.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I mean if someone's not intrigued by those track by track nuggets they probably won't be interested in the album

TwigTW
March 1st 2017


3934 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

looking forward to it... thanks for sifting through their 31 albums for the best, so I don't have to ;-)

Divaman
March 1st 2017


16120 Comments


Hey guys ... Guys, come here a minute ... I think somebody broke Doof!

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I've picked up four on CD so far...with two more (one is even signed by the band...) coming in the post this month.

DoofusWainwright
March 1st 2017


19991 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Diva refer the 'settings' chapter of the user's manual.



Need to get up to the Lillies concept album about zoophilia/bestiality



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