ARTIST: RICHARD ORANGE
SONG: MENTAL DENTIST
GENRE: POP / ROCK  SIMILAR: TODD RUNDGREN, THE BEATLES, STING

"Mental Dentist" rocks! This upbeat pop song is filled with energy, humor, melody, great songwriting, and a great performance. Richard Orange and the Eggmen have refined a great style for themselves. Humor and insanity are not subtle in "Dentist." The music is fast and lively, which energetic and well-executed vocals by the singer. The melody is very pop-ish indeed, and the overall feel of the song makes you want to jump into a crowd of smiling people and bounce around happily. The lyrics are great, as you might imagine from the innovative title. Lots of great lines stick with you like "Make an appointment for me first thing in the morning, I've got some goo inside of me that's spilling out." Very funny and amusing stuff. And "Dentist" doesn't stop there. There's a great funky guitar solo, too. Good work with wah effects on this one. Backup singers and wild laughter and shouts join the guitar solo as the song fades into its conclusion. You will definitely want to come back for another listen to "Mental Dentist!"

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This might be the kind of sound John Lennon would have done with today's technology, had he not been so rudely and abruptly taken from the world.
This is quite an audio adventure, but if you're going to go this crazy you might as well take it to eleven, know what I mean? I think Orange could have
started the piece with an impersonation of the Beatles acoustic work, merged into a gritty pop sound like they did on the Ed Sullivan show, and then finished with the whole audio montage swirling orchestral craziness, and maybe a chant of "Beatle-esque" with a choir of people like Hey Jude or something. Orange focuses on the sound of the Beatles near the end of their career together, and there's just such a wealth of possibilities here.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Memphis, Saturday, June 24, 2000
Written by: Bill Ellis/HOT SOUNDS

The Memphis music landscape hasn't had an eccentric the likes of Richard Orange since, well, that last British-pop-inspired madman, Alex Chilton. The differences: Orange isn't concerned with being difficult, and he has Beatlemania so bad the John Lennon estate should start paying him royalties. Whether pastiche, genius or a little of both, Orange's glass-onion world will pull you in thanks to the tightly conceived melodic cornucopia of Fall Off The World, Ballard of Captain Morgan, Absolutely Positively (the best song never written by Rockpile) and All the Way To China (a1988 hit for Cyndi Lauper as hole in My Hear). That this album - played with intrepid session hotshots James Lott, Dave Smith and Pete Sulley - came out of Sun Studio is just as remarkable. (If World Party's Karl Wallinger can make a career out of Fab Four memories, why not Orange?

Richard Orange and the Eggmen
Richard Orange and the Eggmen
706 Records* * * ½  

RICHARD ORANGE & THE EGGMEN
Richard Orange & The Eggmen
About a third of the songs on this painstakingly produced album pay an homage to the psychedelic-era Beatles so overt that some Fab Four loyalists will want Richard Orange arrested for trespassing. The trippy overdubs and doctored tapes, the orchestras and exotic instrumentation, a song actually titled "Beatlesque," the use of the last chord in "A Day in the Life" to conclude "Big Orange Sun," Orange’s dead-ringer-for-McCartney voice--it’s enough to give a lifelong member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the shivers. To hear Orange’s music as a rip-off, though, especially in the age of the sample, is to miss its true antecedents: Badfinger, ELO, and XTC, groups that used The Beatles more as a starting point than an end, groups whose more obvious imitations were affectionate rather than mercenary. Besides, the album’s two best songs owe nothing to the Beatles at all--the gorgeous "Fall Off The World (Mimi’s Song)," a slow-dance sure-shot of cosmic proportions, and the Rickenbacker-driven "All the Way To China," an Orange composition originally recorded (and all but ruined) by Cyndi Lauper in 1988 for the soundtrack of VIBES. Meanwhile, those who marvel that an album this ornate was recorded at Memphis’s Sun Studio will enjoy "Absolutely Positively," a smoking, rockabilly-rooted rave up whose title just happens to answer that most pertinent of questions, "Is this album any good?" --Arsenio Orteza Illinois Entertainer 2000

RICHARD ORANGE - Big orange sun
(Big orange sun; Orange Stone)
Having been at least somewhere on the scene, for no less than thirty years or so, it’s strange for a Beatlemaniacal fan (which is a category I count myself in) not to have heard about Mr.Orange. Anyway, I guess it’s better whenever than never, so here I am, tasting the “Orange” for the first time. Though captured on the legendary Memphis’ Sun vintage studio equipment, the sound here has a rather moderndaze flavour, offering another example of an imaginary Beatles record, had they continued throughout the post-1970 future. So, nothing too innovative here, but it’s always an inexhaustible source to draw from, also offering a possibility for artist to throw in some of his own creativity whenever he feels like, and it seems that Richard Orange feels so, quite often. In Richard’s vision, it seems that it’s Paul who’d taken over most of the songwriting in the mentioned imaginary future, since there are much more Wings-alike rawk-outs, taking you into different directions like the Ska Macca-ronies of the opening “Mental dentist”, or “All the way to China (Hole in my heart)” that could’ve been another one of those collaborations with Costello. After some arranging adjustments “Someday darkness” could be the next smash for Oasis and there’s also the one that will “Absolutely positively” take you into the smokey Cavern atmosphere. “Fall off the world (Mimi’s song)” and the title tune sound as if John and Paul had actually sat down to write together in the late ‘60s, while “Ballad of Captain Morgan” is a popsike number “for the benefit of Mr.Lennon”. At the end of the CD there’s no less than 22 minutes of bonus material, made of three titles that seem like various studio sketches/outtakes of which the first one is called “Beatlesque”, though the title is MUCH more suitable for the second one, “Yuppie pie / No.5”, while “Girls dance with girls” is another one with funky “wings”. -www.torpedopop.com (2006)