Fred Schneider's "Just Fred" ... the lost '90s masterpiece?

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Aside from Mark Kohler -- the WEA rep who shared my love for this disc -- and some nameless male customer who was hitting on me while he bought it, I can't think of anyone who raves about this disc as much as me. Great energy, fabulous Fred vocals, Albini "production" galore, and a cover of "Coconut," for Fred's sake! Why did the world say "no no no no no no no" to a punked-out Fred when the record's vibe is like the spunkier side of "Planet Claire" or other early B-52's stuff?

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:02 (twenty years ago) link

I've often thought about picking this up.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

"Whip" rules the fucking school but the rest of it i don't remember. ok "Sugar In My Hog" was good too; "who do you think you are, GAAAWWD?!?"

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

Y'now, you've never seen a dancefloor full of hicks scatter until you've seen "Coconut" in action...really really loud. That disc always makes me smile start to finish.

― Erick H (Erick H), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

It's a great album, actually. Very weird, wonderful and strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

good for a spin now and then, and a couple tracks are memorable (I especially love "Stroke Of Genius"), but I don't know if it really transcends the novelty value. If I want some hardcore Fred action, I think I'll sooner go to early B's or the other solo album where he talks about the monster in his pants.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

Sure as HELL wasn't MONEYYY!!!

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 30 June 2003 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

It is not a good album, it is boring, repetitive, grating. Strictly for people who think the problem with the Rollins Band is that Henry's voice isn't high. The only track that MUST be heard is "Bulldozer," which is faster, more spirited, dynamic and musical than most of the other tracks. It also has this grandly badass Brian May style guitar solo on it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 30 June 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

that should be "Henry's voice isn't nasally" not "high."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 30 June 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

Yuppers. I used to have it. I think it's pretty annoying...and I LOVE the B-52's.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

Chris Fuller is Fred Schneider's bitch.

(kidding.)

― hstencil, Wednesday, 2 July 2003 07:10 (twenty years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

May as well drop this item here - Fred Schneider talks about his TV watching habits over his lifetime and flips through a copy of TV Guide from 1968 on the June 15 episode of the "TV Guidance Counselor Podcast." It's a very entertaining hour, all about TV and not music but he does say something about the B-52's 1979 appearance on SNL. Fred really reps for the '50s sitcom I Married Joan starring Joan Davis as an alternative to I Love Lucy.

― Josefa, Sunday, 25 June 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link

I need to get this again

― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link

In 1998 I visited the Barcelona Hard Rock Cafe, where there was this tiny little Kurt Cobain autograph next to an enormous 'Just Fred' poster

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 25 June 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link

Got halfway thru that podcast and the host's annoying hyped-up-nerd tendency to do all the talking/step on Fred S.'s answers drove me crazy.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link

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