# Partyball

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***Partyball*** is the third album by [Stan Ridgway](/source/Stan_Ridgway), released in 1991.[1]

## Critical reception

*[Trouser Press](/source/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."[2] The *[Los Angeles Times](/source/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."[3]

## Track listing

All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway

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

## Personnel

Adapted from the *Partyball* liner notes.[4]

- Stan Ridgway – vocals, backing vocals (1, 9, 10), keyboards (2–6, 8), acoustic guitar (2, 6, 7), guitars (3–5, 8), [harmonica](/source/Harmonica) (3)
- Bernard Sauser-Hall – keyboards (1, 7, 9, 10), [organ](/source/Electric_organ) (6)
- Pietra Wexstun – keyboards (1, 7, 9, 10), backing vocals (1, 2, 5, 9, 10)
- [Jeff Boynton](/source/Wazmo_Nariz) – acoustic piano (5)
- [Mark Schulz](/source/Public_Image_Limited) – guitars (1, 9, 10), electric guitar (2, 7)
- Don Teschner – [lap steel guitar](/source/Lap_steel_guitar) (4)
- Joe Ramirez – bass (1, 6, 7, 9), backing vocals (1, 9)
- David Sutton – bass (2), [fretless bass](/source/Fretless_bass) (5)
- Joseph Berardi – drums (1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 10), [timpani](/source/Timpani) (1), percussion (6, 8, 10)
- Jim Hill – additional drum programming, [anvil](/source/Anvil) (8)
- Elmo Smith – saxophone (3, 8)
- [Beth Anderson](/source/Beth_Andersen) – backing vocals (2)
- [John Batdorf](/source/John_Batdorf) – backing vocals (2)
- [Larry Grennan](/source/Wazmo_Nariz) – backing vocals (2, 10)
- Evon Williams – backing vocals (2)

**Production**

- Stan Ridgway – producer
- Jim Hill – engineer, recording, mixing (1.1, 2–9.2, 10.1)
- Joe Chiccharelli – mixing (1.2, 9.2, 10.2)
- Andrew Ballard – second engineer
- Bill Cooper – second engineer
- Mike Green – second engineer
- Alan Yoshida – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
- Beth Escott – art direction, design
- Kevin Reagan – Geffen art direction
- Rocky Schenck – photography

## Chart positions

### Singles

Year Title Peak Chart positions US Mod[5] 1991 "I Wanna Be a Boss" 13

## References

1. ["Stan Ridgway | Biography & History"](https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stan-ridgway-mn0000010243/biography). *AllMusic*

1. ["Stan Ridgway"](https://trouserpress.com/reviews/stan-ridgway/). *Trouser Press*. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

1. ["POP MUSIC REVIEWS : Thought-Provoking Set From Stan Ridgway"](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-10-28-ca-353-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*. October 28, 1991.

1. *Partyball* (booklet). Los Angeles, California: [Geffen Records](/source/Geffen_Records). 1991.

1. "Stan Ridgway Chart History". *Billboard*. Retrieved 2009-12-03.[dead link]

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