Old Money (album)

Old Money
Studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López
Released	November 10, 2008
Recorded	2005 - 2006
Genre	Experimental rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, funk rock
Length	45:25
Label	Stones Throw Records
Producer	Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López chronology
Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead (2008) Old Money (2008) Megaritual (2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
CHARTattack	(favorable)[2]
Drowned in Sound	(6/10)[3]
The Skinny	[4]
Paste	(75/100)[5]
PopMatters	[6]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[7]
highlandernews.org	[8]

Old Money is a studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López released by Stones Throw Records in November 2008, and is the musician's first album on that label.^[9] Rodríguez-López explained that the album is "loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money."^[10] Stones Throw Records released the vinyl version of the album on February 6, 2009.

Rodriguez-Lopez has hinted that this record was a potential follow up to the 2006 The Mars Volta studio album Amputechture until he changed his musical direction.^[11] Many songs share similarities with previous Mars Volta live jams.

Review aggregate site Metacritic calculates a score of 70/100 for the album, but erroneously referred to it as "The debut album for the Mars Volta guitarist".^[12]

In the song "I Like Rockefellers' First Two Albums, But After That...", there is a dialog from the movie El Topo, from Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Track listing

1. "The Power of Myth" – 5:29
2. "How to Bill the Bilderberg Group" – 3:27
3. "Population Council's Wet Dream" – 6:17
4. "Private Fortunes" – 4:12
5. "Trilateral Commission as Dinner Guests" – 4:51
6. "1921" – 1:35
7. "Family War Funding (Love Those Rothschilds)" – 3:55
8. "Vipers in the Bosom" – 1:49
9. "I Like the Rockefellers' First Two Albums, But After That..." – 4:31
10. "Old Money" – 9:18

Release history

Personnel

• Omar Rodríguez-López – guitars (except 2), synths (except 6, 8), bass (2, 4, 5), keys (2, 4, 7, 10), Wurlitzer (2), theremin (3), effects and TV (6), percussion (8)
• Juan Alderete – bass (1, 3, 7, 9, 10)
• Adrian Terrazas-Gonzalez – woodwinds (5), percussion (7)
• Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez – percussion (1, 4, 7, 9, 10), drums (5, 9, 10), synths (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), clavinet and keys (10)
• Deantoni Parks – drums (1)
• Cedric Bixler-Zavala – drums (2)
• Jon Theodore – drums (3, 7)

References