Name: Max
Subject: Marvin Pontiac
-- Jul 24, 2008 at 7:05PM
Marvin's music sounds to me a lot like Frank Zappa's music but with a gentler sense of humor to replace the over-the-top sarcasm of FZ & more standardized song structures. Brilliant! I love it!
Name: Michele
Subject: pancakes
-- Jan 18, 2008 at 6:41PM
what fantastic song !
an eclectic dreamlike trip after a controversial sleep
greet...Italy ..she didn't make me pancake ! LOL
Name: neil
Subject: perpetuate
-- Apr 10, 2007 at 11:28PM
these 'expose' type reviews really disappoint me. the album speaks for itself.
Name: a lutin
Subject: looking for
-- Apr 6, 2007 at 10:43AM
i'm french and i looking for the lyrics of marvin pontiac songs.
If somebody have it, could you, please, give me it at merlinlemalin22@yaho o.fr? thanks
Name: linola
Subject: marvin pontiac
-- Mar 9, 2007 at 1:43PM
we've had the album for years now and love it. the guy who gave it to us already voiced a few doubts. these were confirmed when i took a closer look at the photographer's name!
my favorite is "the little fly", i use it for my english classes.
Name: Leo
Subject: Marvin Pontiac
-- Jun 24, 2006 at 5:39PM
Don't feel bad; I fell for John Lurie's conceit too and what a marvelous conceit it is! I esp. like "I'm a Doggy" and "Small Car". Great stuff! My colleague, Vicki, actually hags with Lurie sometimes and she says he is so cool!!!
Name: Gruveblender
Subject: M-a-r-v-i-n is good, YEAH
-- Apr 26, 2006 at 2:48AM
Damn sweet stuff. I have ad this for a few years and people are pissed at me when they find out the joke was played on them....So I told them to bring me rocks
Name: strange
Subject: marvin lurie and john pontiac ??
-- Apr 12, 2006 at 7:32PM
now im confused too
http://www.stran geandbeautiful.com/m arvin/
Name: naizmene
Subject: great album
-- Mar 11, 2006 at 5:16PM
ha-ha!
i got this great album here in odessa/ukraine and it's brilliant stuff to listen to! hard to give a style for such a music. i thought i would never herad anything kicked me when i had heard tom waits at first.
Name: Kano
Subject: small car
-- Mar 9, 2006 at 1:25PM
would somedy help a frenchie?!!!!
I would like to get the "small car" lyrics, but my english is so poor that I have needed five months to understand that the "cars we're made of cans". So , would somebody could send me them???
thanks!!!!
Name: Gisele
Subject: John Lurie aka Marvin Pontiac
-- Sep 21, 2005 at 7:45PM
That I never heard of either one until 2 weeks ago is something else. But I play it all the time and it is fast becoming my new obsession. it is always on my CD in the car and on my computer at work. I cannot get enough of it. So I am glad that John Lurie is alive and well. thank you.
Name: blue love money
Subject: marvin
-- Jul 3, 2005 at 6:37PM
just before i forget. do
you think Lurie can sing like that. fun is fun. who is singing?
Name: blue love monkey
Subject: marvin
-- Jul 3, 2005 at 6:32PM
you are so wrong....
but ya it's good. wish i could make that album
before i walk in front of a bus. 505-438-9398
Name: fazerman
Subject: Review: The Legendary Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits
-- Apr 22, 2005 at 5:05PM
Who cares who wrote the damn album, I think it is bloody good and if it is a hoax, even better!!!
Name: An LS.n Reader
Subject: Review: The Legendary Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits
-- Apr 6, 2005 at 4:28AM
LURIE IS A GENIOUS!!!
LURIE IS A GENIOUS!!!!
HE S BRILLIANT
Name: Neron
Subject: Review: The Legendary Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits
-- Apr 6, 2005 at 4:27AM
LURIE IS A GENIOUS!!!!
Name: Nick
Subject: Marvin is good, oh yeah!
-- Nov 9, 2004 at 11:36PM
This album is absolutely fantastic. I mock those of you who simply don't like it as a result of being so pissed off at YOURSELVES for letting Lurie fool the shit out of you. Get over it. Listen to it because it's hot, not because of who didn't write it. Maybe this is not some of Lurie's greates work, I tend to agree, but it is a little more accessible than much of his work. Also a fantastic collaboration of amazing musicians. Open your mind.
Name: F. McNasty
Subject: marvin pontiac
-- Feb 2, 2004 at 4:39PM
I bought the elmore leonard book tishomongo or what ever good light reading then the fucker got me when one of is characters suggested listening to marvin pontiac good bluesman from detroit. Waited for cd to be delivered along with my hank mobely cd dippin. Got suspiscious when i saw john modeski and bill ware as muscians also sound quality to good for 77 fuck you john lurie damn good hoax still enjoyed cd and elmore your an asshole too but i'll pick up another one of your rags for more light reading and know better next time.
Name: James Derry
Subject: -
-- Aug 21, 2003 at 12:09AM
Do not believe him.
Marvin Pontiac Is/was a real
person.
I have an 1 hour long documentary to proove It.
I don't think that all the artists In the documentary would lie
Name: harpua
Subject: Elmore Leonard + Marvin Pontiac
-- May 26, 2003 at 10:49AM
Since Lurie provided music for the soundtrack to Leonard's "Get Shorty," I suspect he was in on the mythmaking from the start.
Name: warthog
Subject: critque
-- Feb 9, 2003 at 12:33PM
I,too, like the now opportunity for harmless chuckle and drug-free mind stimulation. Ha.
Name: Texahomo
Subject: Elmore Leonard + Marvin Pontiac
-- Mar 8, 2002 at 10:00PM
Is Elmore Leonard in on this "prank"?
In his latest book TISHOMINGO BLUES he has a character rant for pages on how this Marvin Pontiac guy is a major -yet unknown- influence on all the greats of modern music.... Iggy & The Stooges, MC5, -everybody cool.
So what's the deal on that?
Name: Emdee
Subject: Yay MP3s
-- Oct 8, 2001 at 5:46AM
Geez good thing I only got this albumn on MP3s, I would have felt a bit cheated since I really thought this guy was a tortured genius. Not just a trickster!
Name: Nick
Subject: Obvious
-- Sep 15, 2001 at 6:29PM
Its quite obvious that the album isn't all it claims to be. My suspicions were aroused within a couple of hours of buying the CD by a) the fact the production sounds blatently post 70's (I can't belive anyone with a slight ear for music could have believed they were pre-77, b) the 'only' pictures of Marvin being suspiciously blurred, c) the fact I had never heard of him or any reference to him. Regardless, the album is great, it sounds more Beefheart/Dr John/Screamin Jay Hawkins than Zappa
Name: Mase
Subject: Holy Shit!
-- Aug 25, 2001 at 2:28AM
I can't believe I fell for this. I fell deep. It's something that people like me are just waiting to get sucked into. Becoming emersed in this music was a trip... I loved it so much that I wanted to believe it. I am shocked, but now my questions are answered about how they got Medeski, Martin, Ribot, Weston all mixed in.
Either way this album is un-fucking-believabl e!!! I love it and will continue to love it, from Marvin Pontiac or John Lurie.
Name: Fran
Subject: Tokyo believes
-- May 17, 2001 at 3:31AM
It is indeed strange and beautiful music- and I kind of had the impression that it was someones vanity project.And the mellow Waits-esque tone ahould`ve given it away Fairly disappointed when I found out for sure- but is that snobbery..? I Spread the myth anyways- Tokyo is beginning to take Pontiac to its heart. hee Hee
Name: Logan
Subject: Bamboozled!
-- Nov 24, 2000 at 10:01PM
O.K.,
I am a fool and thought this Marvin dude was really a real person...I am an idiot!
Name: bombbass
Subject: Brian King
-- Oct 17, 2000 at 5:27AM
Pontiac album sounds nothing like
Ruben and the Jets.
You are cranky and unwilling to enjoy anything new.
Name: Brian King
Subject: John Lurie the phony
-- Sep 1, 2000 at 12:37PM
I don't like it! No sir, not one bit. Partcularily the part about being duped by the ad campaign and attending so-called review in the Rolling Stone. Hucksters are what I call you, John Lurie and Co.! Not to mention the fact that upon buying the damned CD I found it to be a sub-Zappa influenced ethnic rip-off. Ever hear of RUBEN AND THE JETS YOU JERKS!
Name: chris ruff
Subject: the Marv
-- Jul 10, 2000 at 12:35PM
If you liked Kevin Ayers "Joy of a Toy" you will love this disc. this beauty will fill your head with extremely wonderful lines like "hellooo farmer!" and "I growl at your feet". Frank Zappa, move over!
Name: Philippe
Subject: Marvin Pontiac
-- May 22, 2000 at 11:50AM
Anyone who investigates the liner notes can see that the elaborate, mysterious story is fiction. Clue #1: Pontiac allegedly died in 1977, songs recorded earlier than that...o.k., how old was John Medeski(who played on this greatest hits) then?
Great album anyway.
Name: Philippe
Subject: Marvin Pontiac
-- May 22, 2000 at 11:50AM
Anyone who investigates the liner notes can see that the elaborate, mysterious story is fiction. Clue #1: Pontiac allegedly died in 1977, songs recorded earlier than that...o.k., how old was John Medeski(who played on this greatest hits) then?
Great album anyway.
Name: Tom Nixon
Subject: Pontiac
-- May 6, 2000 at 7:06PM
As Andre Williams said, that Bonneville is the last Pontiac. But I think JL has come up with a great new model. I got it this afternoon at the radio station (Cosmic Barrio, formerly known as The Nixon Tapes, KPFK L.A. Saturdays 1-3 pm) and played it ears unseen "Small Car" and was sold. It will be waving through the airwaves on my show, you betcha! If you're curious what else I am playing, check out my playlists at http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/nixontapes
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