The Whistling Dixies: Complete Discography
The Whistling Dixies
Their beloved eponymous debut. Six men, six whistling mouths. An exercise in innocent, apple-eyed whistling. Harkened back to the time before instruments, when a man had to make his own soundtrack with what God gave him. A seminal smash hit. Kids everywhere sell their guitars and vow to learn whistling.
Whistle While We Work
The sophomore slump. Uninspired. Deemed “an overreaching, experimental quagmire” by Spin Magazine Whistle Critic Tom Landellier. Still goes platinum. The music scene in inundated with imitators like The Whistle Stop Thistles, Toot Daddy and the ill-fated boy band 2 BAD 2 HUM.
Colonel Tubaphone’s Fantabulous Whatchcamahoosit and Whistlatorium
Their magnum opus. Acted as the soundtrack to a film by the same name. A young William H. Macy was rumored to have auditioned for the role of “Pipper”, Tubatown’s Whistling Bootblack. The role eventually went to Matthew Perry.
John Seymour: A Man And His Trill
During the Whistling Dixie’s chaotic hiatus, reclusive founding Whistler Seymour recorded his first and only solo record. Recorded between historic PCP binges and orgiastic pork steak consumption, the then-300 lb. Seymour records this undecipherable “concept record”.
Heat-Seeking Whistle
A re-formed Whisting Dixies enter their maligned “heavy” phase. Tainted by rumors of drug abuse and Satan-worship. Most Dixies deny it was ever recorded.
The “I Whistle For Thee, Sweet Lucifer” EP
See above. Never released in the states.
Ain’t No Blowhards
Huzzah! A return to form. Critically well-received but largely ignored by the public. The single "Huzzah!" charts well in Italy.
Live At The Pig’s Table
Their only live release. Peppered with dynamic covers, including “Street Fighting Man” and “U Can’t Touch This”, where the WD’s are joined onstage by surprise guest Hammer.
Whistle Down Tonite.
For the romantic, lady-killing lothario in all of us. Truly whistling to make love to your lady by. A failure.
Whistling In Stereo: The Duets
Joined by Carlos Santana, Bono, Bobby McFerrin and posthumously, Nat King Cole, this release charts higher than all the other WD records combined.
The Whistling Dixies
Their beloved eponymous debut. Six men, six whistling mouths. An exercise in innocent, apple-eyed whistling. Harkened back to the time before instruments, when a man had to make his own soundtrack with what God gave him. A seminal smash hit. Kids everywhere sell their guitars and vow to learn whistling.
Whistle While We Work
The sophomore slump. Uninspired. Deemed “an overreaching, experimental quagmire” by Spin Magazine Whistle Critic Tom Landellier. Still goes platinum. The music scene in inundated with imitators like The Whistle Stop Thistles, Toot Daddy and the ill-fated boy band 2 BAD 2 HUM.
Colonel Tubaphone’s Fantabulous Whatchcamahoosit and Whistlatorium
Their magnum opus. Acted as the soundtrack to a film by the same name. A young William H. Macy was rumored to have auditioned for the role of “Pipper”, Tubatown’s Whistling Bootblack. The role eventually went to Matthew Perry.
John Seymour: A Man And His Trill
During the Whistling Dixie’s chaotic hiatus, reclusive founding Whistler Seymour recorded his first and only solo record. Recorded between historic PCP binges and orgiastic pork steak consumption, the then-300 lb. Seymour records this undecipherable “concept record”.
Heat-Seeking Whistle
A re-formed Whisting Dixies enter their maligned “heavy” phase. Tainted by rumors of drug abuse and Satan-worship. Most Dixies deny it was ever recorded.
The “I Whistle For Thee, Sweet Lucifer” EP
See above. Never released in the states.
Ain’t No Blowhards
Huzzah! A return to form. Critically well-received but largely ignored by the public. The single "Huzzah!" charts well in Italy.
Live At The Pig’s Table
Their only live release. Peppered with dynamic covers, including “Street Fighting Man” and “U Can’t Touch This”, where the WD’s are joined onstage by surprise guest Hammer.
Whistle Down Tonite.
For the romantic, lady-killing lothario in all of us. Truly whistling to make love to your lady by. A failure.
Whistling In Stereo: The Duets
Joined by Carlos Santana, Bono, Bobby McFerrin and posthumously, Nat King Cole, this release charts higher than all the other WD records combined.
What's next for Penticton, British Columbia's favorite sons? Only the fickle public's waning fascination with whistling can say.
1 comment:
Brilliant stuff. Consider me a convert and you can bet i'll be first in line to pick up the box set upon release.
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