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Only a Mother

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A quite unique band from Detroit and other southeast Michigan localities. Only A Mother existed from approximately 1987 to 1994, though Frank Pahl, the main songwriter and genius behind the group, continues his own solo work, which resembles in style the OaM sound, a sound best described as "avant garde noise-folk". Only a Mother used only acoustic instruments to create very strange songs, often with pop structures but with bizarre instrumentation and arrangements

Top songs

  1. Doot-n-Doi
  2. Warped #24
  3. Mother's Little Helper
  4. Mr. Hair
  5. The Frog That Wished to Be As Big As the Ox
  6. Tango
  7. A Little Blackout
  8. Nice Place to Paint
  9. Mahogany Wood
  10. Yeti
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  1. Holding Time
  2. Crosslegged and Amazed
  3. When We Two Have Parted
  4. The Farsighted Man on the Flying Trapeze
  5. Mahagony Wood
  6. The Weather's So Bad
  7. O Death
  8. A Collection of Warpeds
  9. Mahogony Wood
  10. Ode to a Euphonium
  11. Riding White Alligators
  12. Penis Envy
  13. Aborted Optimism
  14. Only a Mother Could Love
  15. Fingers of a Pumpkin
  16. The Contortionist Song
  17. Bucket of Brains
  18. I Prayed In Toledo
  19. Warped #12
  20. Eve and Adam
  21. Bricks Are Nacked Dammit
  22. The Romantic Side of Brutus Lee
  23. Vegetables
  24. Bricks Are Naked, Dammit!!!
  25. Licorice Stick Drum Corps
  26. Ballad of Wild Bill
  27. She Walks In Beauty
  28. Hideous Humunculus
  29. Endymion the Shepard
  30. I Could Be Happy
  31. The Romantic Side of Masking Tape
  32. Jump Start My Heart
  33. Lullabye
  34. Warped #16
  35. Warped #15
  36. Ode To Euphonium #5
  37. Gertie Day
  38. Warped #21
  39. Warped #17
  40. Warped #21 (reprise)
  41. Only an Overture
  42. Frog That Wished to Be as Big as the Ox
  43. Dirge #13, Part 2
  44. Katy
  45. The Brick Sequel (Epilogue?)
  46. Peter Gunn
  47. You Just May Be the One
  48. Dimes
  49. Mahigany Wood
  50. Elephants
  51. Farsighted Man on the Flying Trapeze
  52. The Bricks Trilogy
  53. Mysterioso
  54. Cinammon Girl
  55. Swamp Song
  56. Secret
  57. Minnie Pearl's Bolero
  58. Ode to Ukes
  59. O Deathe
  60. Answer Me
  61. More Soko
  62. Seven Wedge
  63. Al Halbibya
  64. Not
  65. Homer
  66. Pork Rinds and Perrier
  67. Persian Balls
  68. I Keep Bumping Into Myself
  69. Collection of Warpeds
  70. Rubbydubs, Mugwamps, and Wobblies
  71. Simple Song
  72. Trigger Happy
  73. Pardon mon Faux Pas
  74. Doodley Squat
  75. A Song for Mud
  76. Spinning
  77. The Romantic Side of Ken's Cat
  78. Bricks Are Naked, Dammit
  79. Warped No. 27
  80. Sub Jazz
  81. Deed'n Deed
  82. Little Blackout - Eugene Chadbourne
  83. Warp # 17
  84. Weather's So Bad - David Greenberger
  85. Warped #15 (Cricket Song)
  86. Subjazz
  87. Warped #27
  88. Rack # 1
  89. Endymion The Shephard
  90. Rack # 2

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