Voobaha

Infobox Album
Name = Voobaha
Type = studio
Artist = Barnes & Barnes


Released = 1980
1997 (Oglio Reissue)
2006 (Collector's Choice Reissue)
Recorded =
Genre = novelty rock, comedy, experimental
Length = 44:20
72:22 (Oglio Reissue)

Label = Rhino Records
Oglio Records (Reissue)
Collector's Choice (Reissue)
Producer = Barnes & Barnes
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wnftxqq5ld6e link]
Last album = "
This album = "Voobaha"
(1980)
Next album = "Spazchow"
(1981)

"Voobaha" is the debut album of novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes. It was originally released in 1980 by Rhino Records, rereleased in 1996 by Oglio Records and rereleased yet again in 2006 by Collector's Choice. Its title means "greetings" in the duo's artificial language of Lumanian. [ [http://www.voobaha.com/voobaha/dictionary/ Lumanian ] ]

Short, music video-like films were shot for the songs "Party In My Pants," "Fish Heads," and "When You Die," all of which were released on the home video compilation Zabagabee.

Track listing

(All songs are by Barnes & Barnes, unless otherwise noted)

Side one:
#"Please Please Me" – (2:50) (Lennon/McCartney)
#"Boogie Woogie Amputee" – (2:31)
#"Gumby Jaws Lament" – (3:26)
#"De Pumped Out Blues" – (2:26)
#"Clip Clop (Ode To Equus)" – (3:53)
#"I Hope She Dies" – (3:15)
#"Party In My Pants" – (3:30)Side two:
#"Fish Heads" – (2:23)
#"Sewey Hole" – (2:49)
#"Lumanian Love Song, The" – (3:26)
#"Cemetery Girls" – (4:30)
#"Something's In The Bag" – (4:24)
#"Linoleum" – (4:09)
#"When You Die" – (0:48)

Both reissues contain additional bonus tracks.

Production

Barnes & Barnes – Producer, Engineer
Joan Farber – Design
Monica Froeber – Reissue Package Design
Rocky Schenck – Photography

Trivia

#The song "Cemetery Girls" features lyrics referencing ("Fresh souls in the Cornfield...Anthony put them there..."), and samples from the Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life, which starred Bill Mumy (Art). Since the album was released several years before Art and Artie went "public" about their identities, the reference is more of an in-joke.
#Weird Al Yankovic provided the accordion on "Gumby Jaws Lament".
#Artie (Robert Haimer) was originally to sing "Gumby Jaws Lament", but Art had a terrible cold that day, and they decided his gravelly, phlegmy voice added to the song. The coughing throughout the song is real.
#Mook and Beanhead, mentioned in both "Party in my Pants" and "When You Die", were pet names for Art and Artie's recently (at the time) ex-girlfriends.
#Posse, mentioned as the Lumanian phrase for "I love you" in "The Lumanian Love Song", was Artie's dog. Nick names for several other people Art and Artie knew are also mentioned in the song (such as the aforementioned "Mook").