Real Men (album)
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Real Men is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by King Missile
King Missile
King Missile is an American avant-garde band that has been led in various disparate incarnations by poet/singer John S. Hall since 1986. Currently, Hall performs with a new version of the first incarnation, King Missile ....

 frontman
Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...

 John S. Hall
John S. Hall
John S. Hall is an American poet, author, singer and lawyer perhaps best known for his work with King Missile, an avant-garde band that he co-founded in 1986 and has since led in various disparate incarnations....

 and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

/multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...

 Kramer
Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer , known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc...

. It was released in 1991
1991 in music
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Track listing

All lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

 by Hall. Music by Kramer, with samples
Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

 from such artists as N.W.A, Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...

, Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

, Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

, Marvin Hatley
Marvin Hatley
Thomas Marvin Hatley , professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an American film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940....

, and Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

.
  1. "Everybody Screams Inside" – 2:15
  2. "Pain & Pleasure" – 1:18
  3. "The Party" – 2:22
  4. "Columbus Day Weekend" – 1:42
  5. "My Personal Life" – 2:17
  6. "Francis Bacon" – 1:51
  7. "Empty" – 1:27
  8. "The Trees" – 1:40
  9. "The Absolute" – 3:09
  10. "Real Men" – 3:44
  11. "Water" – 3:49
  12. "Enjoy Your Tea" – 1:59
  13. "Things" – 2:23
  14. "Clarity Transcending Choice" – 1:13
  15. "The Birds" – 2:16
  16. "My Life" – 1:32
  17. "How Much Longer" – 1:22
  18. "Mr. Story" – 3:24
  19. "Wind-up Toys" – 1:08
    • This track appears with the same title and lyrics, but different music and vocals, on King Missile's 1994
      1994 in music
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       album of the same name
      King Missile (album)
      King Missile is the eponymous sixth album by avant-garde band King Missile, and the band's third for Atlantic Records. It was released on April 19, 1994.-Track listing:All lyrics by John S. Hall...

      .
  20. "Knowledge" – 1:05
  21. "Garbage Party" – 1:39
  22. "The Spanish Armada" – 1:12
  23. "Hide the Knives" – 5:13
  24. "Shit" – 2:00


On the back cover of the CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

, the track listing inaccurately reads:
  1. "Enjoy Your Tea"
  2. "Things"
  3. "Clarity Transcending Choice"
  4. "The Birds"
  5. "My Life"
  6. "How Much Longer"
  7. "Mr. Story"
  8. "Wind-up Toys"
  9. "Knowledge"
  10. "Garbage Party"
  11. "The Spanish Armada"
  12. "Hide the Knives"
  13. "Shit"
  14. "Everybody Screams Inside"
  15. "Pain & Pleasure"
  16. "The Party"
  17. "Columbus Day Weekend"
  18. "My Personal Life"
  19. "Francis Bacon"
  20. "Empty"
  21. "The Trees"
  22. "The Absolute"
  23. "Real Men"
  24. "Water"
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