Title: Deserves better recognition. If only Capitol would've promoted it.
Product review: It's a shame that such a great album, deleted by the label and unknown by so many potential listeners, has only one review here on Amazon. Other than a printed advertisement in BAM, a West Coast magazine based in the SF Bay area, Capitol released this CD with little promotion. I snapped the CD up the day it came out, having been familiar with Thelonious Monster's prior output--the excellent Next Saturday Afternoon and Stormy Weather (plus their debut, "Baby..." which was not as brilliant as their later releases.) Bob Forrest, the singer, songwriter and soul of TM creates some very personal songs, and on Beautiful Mess, he aced everything. It's poetic, sad, poignant, triumphant, optimistic; a masterpiece. I'm sorry to use such hyperbole, but it is. Additionally, pick up Bob's other CD under the band name Bicycle Thief, which is nearly as good if not an equal match.
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