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Where to start with The Lounge Lizards
Start with Tarantella — Voice of Chunk, 1989. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 22 The Lounge Lizards tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 22 The Lounge Lizards tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 22 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 12 of the 22 tracks come from The Lounge Lizards alone.
The years need a caveat: 22 of 22 dated tracks land in the 1980s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Tarantella — Voice of Chunk, 1989. Of the 22 The Lounge Lizards tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
You Haunt Me — The Lounge Lizards, 1981. The lowest energy reading of any The Lounge Lizards track in the room (48 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Demented — The Lounge Lizards, 1981. The highest energy reading here, at 66 out of 100 — a 18-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where The Lounge Lizards sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are The Lounge Lizards's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| The Lounge Lizards | 1981 | 12 |
| Voice of Chunk | 1989 | 10 |
Every The Lounge Lizards track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Au Contraire Arto | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Ballad | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Conquest Of Rar | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Demented | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Epistrophy | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Fatty Walks | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Harlem Nocturne | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| I Remember Coney Island | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Incident On South Street | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Wangling | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| Well You Needn't | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| You Haunt Me | The Lounge Lizards | 1981 |
| A Paper Bag and the Sun | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Bob the Bob | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Bob the Bob Home | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| One Big Yes | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Sharks | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Tarantella | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| The Hanging | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Travel | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Uncle Jerry | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
| Voice of Chunk | Voice of Chunk | 1989 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Lounge Lizards's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Miles Davis — jazz, 39 tracks
- Where to start with Charli xcx — art pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with David Bowie — art rock, 21 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists The Lounge Lizards as a group, from the United States and formed in 1978. Its contributors tag the artist jazz, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and no wave. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many The Lounge Lizards tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 22, across 2 albums. 22 of them carry a date, running from 1981 to 1989. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 22 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 22 of these 22 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.