The Bodhisattvas of Babylon

Oddball Spinoffs

Albums riffing off, exploiting, endorsing, condemning, celebrating or otherwise weirdly or even half-assedly relating to Akvarium and Akvarium-related matters.

Make no mistake. Most of these are dreadful. Or irrelevant. Or dreadfully irrelevant. A few of them have their moments. But most of them are turds...turds that fall with a splat unequalled since Dzhon's bout of Mongolian giardiasis. Water Rhapsody? Olga "7th Day" Perry's Innokenty adaptations? If you bought these, you are so pissed off you are not reading this right now.

In this category you'll find four basic types of albums:

• Albums by ex-members of Akvarium who are not BG (e.g. Kuryokhin, Romanov, Gakkel', Gunitskii)
• Albums where BG is featured in some absurdly tangential way. (e.g. Shakespeare's Sister)
• Albums (generally, by no-talents) that exploit Akvarium's back catalogue. (e.g. Water Rhapsody)
• Joanna Stingray albums. (The fact that J.S. was never in any official capacity connected with Akvarium is a fact of little relevance. See this review for some insight into the "Dzhoanna" phenomenon.)

(N.B.: This list, although already frightening, makes no claim to be exhaustive at the present time. There are literally dozens of these types of albums floating about—Kuryokhin alone must have 30—and we're adding more all the time.)