Strategem (Big Head Todd and the Monsters album)
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| Studio album by Big Head Todd and the Monsters | ||||
| Released | September 27, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 47:15 | |||
| Label | Giant | |||
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Strategem was the fourth album by Colorado rock band Big Head Todd and the Monsters, released in 1994. It was the band's second Giant Records release, following their platinum Sister Sweetly released the year before. While the album failed to match the sales and popularity of the band's previous effort, several individual tracks were positively received by reviewers, including "Kensington Line" and "Neckbreaker". Several verses on the album were inspired by Buddhist koans.
The band recorded the album in an empty theater in Boulder, Colorado and attempted to return to a more indie music sound in the wake of their more commercial-sounding effort in "Sister Sweetly".
"Strategem" was a deliberate misspelling by the band of "stratagem", used in the album title and also found in the song title "Strategem", and in the lyrics of that song: "Here I stand by lovely strategem."
All songs written by Todd Park Mohr
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