My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook explained

My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978–1982
Type:compilation
Artist:Annette Peacock
Cover:Annette_Peacock_Aura_Years.jpg
Released:2004
Recorded:1978–1982
Genre:Jazz, rock
Length:1:18:32
Label:Sanctuary
CMRCD956
Producer:Annette Peacock

My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978–1982 is a compilation album by composer, singer, songwriter, and producer Annette Peacock. It brings together material previously released by the Aura label on X-Dreams (1978), The Perfect Release (1979), and The Collection (1982), and was released by Sanctuary Records in 2004.[1] [2]

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger wrote: "These recordings' mix of jazz fusion, album-oriented rock, and Peacock's unusual blend of jazzy singing with sensually spoken intellectual poetic passages was too offbeat to get any more than a cult audience, though it's more accessible than many a cult rock artist's work. This is as complete a document of that part of her career as any fan could wish for."

A reviewer for Pitchfork stated: "None of her records... capture Peacock's singing as clearly and thoroughly as this collection... It was easier to sound mysterious in the 70s, when your career, the story behind your career, and the subtext under everything you did weren't put under a microscope. But even by those standards, Peacock's a cipher: She lets the work speak for itself, when it so chooses."

The BBCs Peter Marsh commented: "Hardly a month goes by these days without the rediscovery of some neglected talent... In Annette Peacock's case, the words 'neglected' and 'talent' don't really begin to do her justice, but her rediscovery's been a long time coming... Though she's never achieved... commercial success, there's no doubt that Peacock's talent is still deserving of wider recognition."[3]

Writing for The Herald, Keith Bruce noted that the album is "both outspokenly political and louchely sensual, experimental and downright groovy, and contains one of the great alternative slogans to the Atkins diet in its opening line: 'My mama never taught me how to cook - that's why I'm so skinny'."[4]

Track listing

"Don't Be Cruel" composed by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley. Remaining tracks composed by Annette Peacock

  1. "My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook" – 5:30
  2. "Real & Defined Androgens" – 10:59
  3. "Dear Bela" – 3:02
  4. "This Feel Within" – 5:20
  5. "Too Much in the Skies" – 4:54
  6. "Don't Be Cruel" – 4:35
  7. "Questions" – 2:55
  8. "Love's Out to Lunch" – 2:22
  9. "Solar Systems" – 3:07
  10. "American Sport" – 3:43
  11. "A Loss of Consciousness" – 3:43
  12. "Rubber Hunger" – 4:21
  13. "The Succubus" – 3:49
  14. "Survival" – 14:48
  15. "Mexico" – 2:50
  16. "What's It Like in Your Dreams" – 2:30

Personnel on tracks 1–7

Personnel on tracks 8–16

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Annette Peacock: My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978–1982 . Richie . Unterberger . AllMusic . February 18, 2023.
  2. Web site: Annette Peacock - My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook: The Aura Years 1978–1982 . Jazz Music Archives . February 18, 2023.
  3. Web site: Annette Peacock My Mama Never Taught me How to Cook Review . Peter . Marsh . 2004 . BBC . February 18, 2023.
  4. Web site: Billboard . Keith . Bruce . July 6, 2004 . The Herald . February 18, 2023.

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