Russ Stedman - "Bloated & Pretentious" (C-100, 1994)
RUSS STEDMAN - "BLOATED & PRETENTIOUS" : (BABY SUE MUSIC REVIEW, #18 FALL 1994) - One of the country's most prolific and crazy underground plasters, Russ Stedman goes all over the place on his latest tape. This one features 90 minutes (!!!) of some of the wildest home-taping madness around. Russ is not only wild and crazy...he's sincere and really talented as well. Plus...he keeps getting better and BETTER. I strongly suggest you contact him. (Stephen M. Fievet)
RUSS STEDMAN - "BLOATED & PRETENTIOUS" : (FACTSHEET FIVE, #52 ) - I guess I was a bit disappointed with Russ Stedman's last tape but this new one more than makes up for it. 25 songs on this tape. Every one of them is uniquely funny and tunefully executed. We get a great selection of incredibly twisted covers of songs written by Frank Zappa, Ozzy Osbourne, and Wang Chung. I can't decide if I like the covers or the semiautobiographical songs the best. I just love the song written about his biggest fan Earl Peel or the one about his only review in Sound Choice (What, Factsheet Five's not good enough !) Believe me, we're just scratching the surface. 25 songs for five bucks, you just can't go wrong. Russ Stedman is proof that enjoyable, Iistenable music can come out of one-man basement tapes. (R. Seth Friedman)