Funny Valentine

This article is about the album. For the fictional character of same name, see List of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure § Characters § Steel Ball Run.

Funny Valentine is the second studio album by avant-rock, experimental trio Massacre, recorded 17 years after the first. For this album guitarist Fred Frith and bass guitarist Bill Laswell were joined by English drummer Charles Hayward, who replaced original drummer Fred Maher.

Funny Valentine
Studio album by Massacre
Released	1998 (1998)
Recorded	January 1998
Studio	Orange Music, West Orange, New Jersey
Genre	Experimental rock
Length	61:17
Label	Tzadik (United States)
Producer	Massacre
Massacre chronology
Killing Time (1981) Funny Valentine (1998) Meltdown (2001)

Funny Valentine was recorded at Laswell's studio, Orange Music, in West Orange, New Jersey in January 1998.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

In a review at AllMusic, Rick Anderson stated that Funny Valentine is a little "weak" at the beginning but improves as the album progresses.^[2] He said some of the tracks display "the sense of humor that animated so much of Killing Time". Anderson opined that Funny Valentine is "great", but not "quite as great" as Massacre's first album. He felt that it needs "a little more discipline and a little less length, but not much more discipline and not too much less length".^[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Massacre.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Leaf Violence"	4:43
2.	"Down to Five a Day"	4:42
3.	"Lizard-skin Junk-mail"	5:26
4.	"Ladder"	11:30
5.	"South Orange Sunset"	4:13
6.	"Six-cylinder Sinister"	5:21
7.	"300 Days in the Vacant Lot"	7:34
8.	"Say Hey Willie"	2:14
9.	"Talk Radio"	3:48
10.	"Well-dressed Ripping up Wood"	4:22
11.	"Further Conversations with White Arc"	6:24

Source: AllMusic,^[2] Discogs.^[1]

Personnel

Massacre

• Fred Frith – guitar
• Bill Laswell – bass guitars
• Charles Hayward – drums

Sound and artwork

• Robert Musso – engineer
• Allan Tucker – mastering
• Massacre – producer
• Kazunori Sugiyama – associate executive producer
• John Zorn – executive producer
• Ikue Mori – design
• Adolf Wölfli – artwork

Source: Discogs.^[1]