Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Strategem (1994)
Tracklist front / back album covers
1. "Kensington Line" 3:19
2. "Strategem" 4:25
3. "Wearing Only Flowers" 4:43
4. "Neckbreaker" 3:57
5. "Magdelina" 4:55
6. "Angel Leads Me On" 5:01
7. "In the Morning" 3:56
8. "Candle 99" 4:28
9. "Greyhound" 2:56
10. "Poor Miss" 4:25
11. "Shadowlands" 5:10
Total length: 47:15
Big Head Todd and the Monsters Band Members Musicians
Todd Park Mohr – vocals, guitar, piano
Rob Squires – bass, background vocals
Brian Nevin – drums, percussion, background vocals
Nick Forster – steel guitar, slide guitar
Al Laughlin – organ
Hazel Miller – background vocals
Big Head Todd and the Monsters – producers, engineers
Andy Torri – producer, engineer
Andy Wallace – mixing
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Steve Sisco – mixing assistant
Kevin Clock – "transfers"
Mickey Houlihan – "sounds"
Janet Levinson – design
Stephen McNamara – digital editing
Jeff Shuey – digital editing, "transfers"
Simeon Soffer – photography
Strategem was the 4th studio album by Colorado rock band Big Head Todd and the Monsters, released in 1994. It was the band's second Giant Records release, following their platinum Sister Sweetly released the year before. While the album failed to match the sales and popularity of the band's previous effort, several individual tracks were positively received by reviewers, including "Kensington Line" and "Neckbreaker". Several verses on the album were inspired by Buddhist koans.
The band recorded the album in an empty theater in Boulder, Colorado and attempted to return to a more indie music sound in the wake of their more commercial-sounding effort in "Sister Sweetly".
"Strategem" was a deliberate misspelling by the band of "stratagem", used in the album title and also found in the song title "Strategem", and in the lyrics of that song: "Here I stand by lovely strategem."
