Critical Essay by Patrick Snyder-scumpy
The pop minstrels of the first years of the last decade were outraged idealists venting their passion in livid terms while educating a generation about social ...
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Critical Essay by Patrick Snyder-scumpy
[Martin Mull's] songs are a glossy and smoothly subtle blend of many influences shaped and channeled by a unique and whimsically droll point of view. So...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Holden
Stan Freberg, Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, Frank Zappa, Randy Newman, even Homer & Jethro are but a few of the influences that have shaped the sensibility of singer/h...
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Critical Essay by Ralph J. Gleason
[Despite his youth, Martin Mull manages in his first] two albums to carefully and inexorably carve up almost every stereotype in popular music from Fletcher Henders...
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Critical Essay by Michael Watts
[Mull's] mind has more dark corners than a chimney nook. His heart belongs to dada….
He satirises the crassness of rock culture with light, deft touch...
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Critical Essay by Robert E.a.p. Ritholz
[Martin Mull has] made some of the funniest, but most neglected, records around.
The problem seems to be that Mull's field is musical parody, and the...
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Critical Essay by Rob Patterson
Mull's persona, a nice guy version of the blindly self assured and patronizing Garth Gimble character he so successfully portrayed on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman...
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Critical Essay by Steve Simels
[Martin Mull] is a songwriter of almost depressingly facile wit and also the purveyor of one of the funniest club acts in the history of Western civilization. Unfortuna...
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Critical Essay by Paul Slansky
Through six years as a singer of loony tunes that found inspiration in the mundane ("Dancing in the Nude," "Margie the Midget," "Nose...
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Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting t...
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Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting t...
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Today is Saturday, Aug. 18, the 230th day of 2007. There are 135 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be b...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 12-18:Aug. 12: Country singer Porter Wagoner is 80. Actor George Hamilton is 68. Actress Jennifer Warren is 66. Singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Strai...
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Critical Essay by Patrick Snyder-scumpy
I Loved Your Book: The Strange Desire To Praise the Talented
