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Partyball is the third album by Stan Ridgway, released in 1991.[3]

Partyball
Studio album by Stan Ridgway
Released	May 1991
Genre	Rock
Length	47:19
Label	Geffen Records
Producer	Stan Ridgway
Stan Ridgway chronology
Mosquitos (1989) Partyball (1991) Songs That Made This Country Great (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that the album "serves up odes to trigger-happy cops, hopeless love, Harry Truman and the atom bomb, otherworldly chain gangs and plague-ridden dystopias, interrupted by odd instrumental interludes that continue Ridgway’s fascination with soundtrack music for invisible movies."[4] The Los Angeles Times called the songs "mainly about the fearsome distortions that come from dominance, power and an unwillingness to acknowledge weakness and vulnerability as our common human lot."[5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway

1. "Watch Your Step/Jack Talked (Like a Man on Fire)" - 4:19
2. "I Wanna Be a Boss" - 4:52
3. "Mouthful of Sand/The Roadblock" - 5:31
4. "Snaketrain" - 3:53
5. "Right Through You" - 3:45
6. "The Gumbo Man" - 3:34
7. "Harry Truman" - 3:51
8. "Venus Is Hell/Overlords" - 5:39
9. "O.K?/Uba's House of Fashions" - 4:36
10. "Bad News at the Dynamite Ranch/Beyond Tomorrow" - 7:19

Personnel

Adapted from the Partyball liner notes.[6]

• Stan Ridgway - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals
• Mark Schulz - guitar
• Joe Ramirez - bass guitar
• Bernard Sauser-Hall, Pietra Wexstun - keyboards
• Joseph Berardi - drums
• Beth Anderson, Evon Williams, John Batdorf, Larry Grennan - background vocals
• Elmo Smith - saxophone
• Don Teshner - steel guitar on "Snaketrain"
• David Sutton - bass guitar on "Right Through You"
• Jeff Boynton - piano on "Right Through You"

Chart positions

Singles

Year	Title	Peak Chart positions
		US Mod [7]
1991	"I Wanna Be a Boss"	13
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.

References

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