Robyn Hitchcock "Ole! Tarantula" Animated

Robyn Hitchcock sought out some old friends to record his new album, Ole! Tarantula, and he found the Venus 3: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin. By enlisting "3/4s of the Minus 5 and half of R.E.M," Hitchcock has created what he calls, "the rockingest record I've made in years." While the album roars with the garage-fueled energy of his Soft Boys days, Hitchcock's lyricism continues to drive his songs. The New York Times says, "[His songs] bridge the psychedelia of Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett and the archetypal English 'nonsense' of Edward Lear," and Rolling Stone says, "Robyn Hitchcock's songs are a lot like the genetic code: they're tough to crack, but the secret of life is in there somewhere." In addition to the Venus 3 core group, Ole! Tarantula was engineered by Seattle mainstay Kurt Bloch and features a cast of recurrent and new characters in the Hitchcock story: Morris Windsor (Soft Boys/Egyptians), Sean Nelson (Harvey Danger), Chris Ballew (Presidents of The United States of America), Kimberly Rew (Soft Boys) and Ian McLagan (The Faces). Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 will be touring in the fall of 2006.

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[Spiritualized1]

Nice work, but calling it "Ole Tarantula" is misleading.

[Cativa]

awesome!

[AphroditeEros33]

i~♥☆♡~i WTFaaabulous!! It is my <3 song!! Thanxoxoxo so much 4 making & sharing! 愛<3 it! LMAO i~♡☆♥~i

[lazergrazer45]

Great song. Classic Hitchcock!

[hylasdrowned]

This is "Adventure Rocketship," not "Ole Tarantula."

[vogonjr]

All these people taking drugs and they can get a trippy mind listening to this guy.

[AdamBuxton]

Great job!

[jbearden]

*BOOM!*

[robpeterson]

Thanks.