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Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went
out to meet the bridegroom.
La Pucelle
And I looked up.
He said,
Jesus is in your mouth.
He said it,
and I complied.
And at midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go
out to meet him! Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
Oh, genuflect for Jesus
Bend in bliss
Each rug burn ( He teaches )
A Christ-cherry kiss
Oh come, loved ones, with Him reside
Let us all be Christian brides !
With one mind we cannot falter
Faith divine lies at the altar
Where we, His connubial congregation,
tender holy vestal oblations;
Seek we not in vain his approbation -
The gloriole: His vow of conjugation !
His band of gold, a bond of liberation -
Hymeneals be sung with exaltation !
Oh chaste ones, let us unite
and kneel
His rod invites
Our God is real
"When it comes to complete and utterly wonderful depravity,few have
ever
dropped their drawers,exposed every orifice and let out a lustful
holler with
as much panache as Miss Tammy Faye Starlite, whose self-released EP, On
My
Knees, sets a new standard for countrified carnality."
-- Robert Baird,
Magnet
"You don't want to miss her one-of-a-kind act on this EP....Then
again,
those who are devout in their religion or their country music may be
offended
by the humor of the musicianaries therein...blasphemous to some,
hilarious
to many...musically, it's all a hot hoot,with Starlite's passionate
vocalls
backed by the deft playing of her Angels of Mercy...Miss
Starlite, the
liner notes conclude,is obviously excited by her current comeback
effort-and you should be, too, if you need a good, long,
musical/topical laugh."
-- ***** (4 stars). Ken Richardson, Stereo Review's Sound &
Vision
"When she shaves for her man, Miss Starlite doesn't stop with her
legs. And
in between matter-of-fact maunderings about her sexual misadventures
and the
peccadilloes of the Nashville luminaries she's long walked among,
she'll
also feature the anti-abortion classic,God Has Lodged a Tenant in My
Uterus."
-- Robert Christgau,
Village Voice
"Miss Tammy Faye Starlite...Sort of a Pia Zadoable look-alike who
pulls off
an alter ego possessed by Tammy Wynette, Jesus Christ and Wild
Turkey...turned Cheap Trick's Surrender into a Bible-thumping
rapturous
hymn....and brought new meaning to Bible passages, such as when he
comes, he
will come. Tammy Faye's brilliant Did I Shave My Vagina For
This?
brought the house down, especially when she wiped away a tear while
singing, it's Saturday night, and I'm watching the tube, while he
goes off
to shave another girls pubes. All in the key of D - for divine !
Jesus
would have loved it, before he sent her straight to hell. See ya there!"
-- Libby Molyneaux,
L.A. Weekly
"New York actress and performance artist Tammy Lang is country's
Lenny
Bruce...That Lang is, au fond, a genuine country fan is obvious from
the
razor-sharp precision with which she lampoons the sanctimonious
intersection
between country and Christianity....Sadly, there are only six tracks,
including a hidden and even funnier version of God Has Lodged
a Tenant In
My Uterus....Evil, twisted, sick and totally wonderful."
-- **** (4 stars )John Conquest, 3rd Coast
Music
"Bleached-blond,stiletto-heeled,and pregnant with her third child
in at
least a month, Tammy Faye Starlite represents the Blue Angel Cabaret
at its
very best...The way she brilliantly mines country music
subtexts...it's
hard to tell if Tammy's straight outta Nashville or a whiteness
studies
graduate seminar."
-- Jeff Howe, The Village
Voice
"A bunch of cowboys wander into a honky-tonk,listen for a while to
the band
onstage,decide they like what they hear-as evinced by hollered reqests
for
that song about the vagina.Hey, it could happen,and it pretty
much did at
the Opryland Hotel,when the singer known as Tammy Faye Starlite
warbled the
jaw-dropping God Has Lodged a Tenant in My Uterus."
-- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene
"There is a woman named Tammy Lang in New York City who occasionally
comes to
Music City to perform her lewd versions of country hits...her Tammy
Faye
Starlite character is,um,different enough to earn her a DISCovery
award...the six-song CD is strung together like a a twisted moderne
radio
barn dance with a cast of naughty trailer-park bizarros. She plays The
End in
Nashville on August 13th. Be there."
-- Robert K. Oermann, Music Row
"Screamingly funny."
-- Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene
"OK, so maybe her incest routines and topical humor about how it’s
really the
Christians who deserve Jerusalem mean she’s best understood as
performance
art. Maybe the country songs and musicians are mere environment for the
monologues. In that case, call her my Karen Finley."
--Robert Christgau
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