Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

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Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Studio album by Lovage
Released	November 6, 2001
Genre	Trip hop, Acid Jazz
Length	56:53
Label	75 Ark Records
Producer	Dan The Automator / AKA Nathaniel Merriweather
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Q (12/01, p.140) Spin (2/02, p.108-9) NME (12/1/01, p.36) Pitchfork Media link
Lovage chronology
Lovage EP (2001) Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (2001)

Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By is the debut album of Lovage, released in 2001. The full name of the album is actually Nathaniel Merriweather presents... Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By. Produced by Dan The Automator. Lovage is a studio supergroup featuring Dan the Automator producing, Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles on vocals and Kid Koala on the turntables. It is currently out of print.

Dan the Automator provides trip hop beats while the vocals mostly consist of Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles engaging in sultry and provocative dialogue. Nevertheless, the overall tone of the album is tongue-in-cheek.

An instrumental version of this album was released on the same year, and it received a better rating on allmusic (3/5) and was even named an AMG Album Pick. [1]

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ladies Love Chest Rockwell" – 1:19
   • Vocals: Prince Paul (as Chest Rockwell, the alias used for Handsome Boy Modeling School)
2. "Pit Stop (Take Me Home)" – 3:56
3. "Anger Management (Why Must God Punish Me)" – 4:17
4. "Everyone Has A Summer" – 4:16
   • Scratches: Kid Koala
5. "To Catch A Thief" – 3:17
6. "Lies And Alibis" – 3:16
7. "Herbs, Good Hygiene & Socks" – 1:55
   • Vocals: Afrika Bambaataa
8. "Book Of The Month" – 4:28
9. "Lifeboat" – 4:45
10. "Strangers On A Train" – 4:36
11. "Lovage (Love That Lovage, Baby)" – 1:04
    • Vocals: Damon Albarn
12. "Sex (I'm A)" (Berlin cover)– 6:19
13. "Koala's Lament" – 3:53
    • Scratches: Kid Koala
14. "Tea Time With Maseo" – 1:38
    • Featuring: Maseo and Chármelle Carmel
15. "Stroker Ace" – 4:29
16. "Archie & Veronica" – 6:05

[edit] Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (March 2008)

• The album cover is a homage to Serge Gainsbourg's second album cover. [2]
• The song Sex (I'm A...) was originally written and performed by 1980s new wave band Berlin. The Lovage version differs significantly from the original.
• The album features many references to Alfred Hitchcock. Most notably the titles of the songs "To Catch A Thief", "Lifeboat", and "Strangers On A Train", which were all named after the movies, and contain re-dubbed excerpts. The album title itself also refers to an album Hitchcock appeared on in 1956 titled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Music to be Murdered By.
• The quotes from "Everyone Has A Summer" are from the film Airplane! (1980).

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