The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get | |
Type: | album |
Artist: | My Dad Is Dead |
Cover: | My Dad Is Dead - The Taller You Are the Shorter You Get.jpg |
Caption: | CD edition cover art |
Released: | July 24, 1989 |
Recorded: | 1988 - 1989 |
Studio: | The Beat Farm (Cleveland, Ohio) |
Genre: | Post-punk |
Length: | 82:58 (LP) 72:04 (CD) |
Label: | Homestead |
Producer: | Chris Burgess |
Prev Title: | Let's Skip the Details |
Prev Year: | 1988 |
Next Title: | Chopping Down the Family Tree |
Next Year: | 1991 |
The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get is an album by the American post-punk band My Dad Is Dead, released in 1989 through Homestead Records.[1] [2] [3]
Aside from some bass and accordion, Mark Edwards played all of the instruments on the album.[4]
Trouser Press wrote: "Edwards veers relatively close to the musical mainstream ... with considerable success. His lyrics, meanwhile, have grown less morose and more philosophical, and he sings them with new-found expressiveness."[5] Tiny Mix Tapes wrote that the album "covers everything from pretty, jangly guitar instrumentals to Joy Division- and Devo-referencing New Wave numbers."[6]