title: Partyball
text: # Partyball
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
  
  Partyball is the third album by Stan Ridgway, released in 1991.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  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." The 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."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by Stan Ridgway
  
  * "Watch Your Step/Jack Talked (Like a Man on Fire)" - 4:19
  * "I Wanna Be a Boss" - 4:52
  * "Mouthful of Sand/The Roadblock" - 5:31
  * "Snaketrain" - 3:53
  * "Right Through You" - 3:45
  * "The Gumbo Man" - 3:34
  * "Harry Truman" - 3:51
  * "Venus Is Hell/Overlords" - 5:39
  * "O.K?/Uba's House of Fashions" - 4:36
  * "Bad News at the Dynamite Ranch/Beyond Tomorrow" - 7:19
  
  ## Personnel
  
  Adapted from the Partyball liner notes.
  
  * Stan Ridgway - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals
  * Mark Schulz - guitar
  * Joe Ramirez - bass guitar
  * Bernard Sauser-Hall, Pietra Wexstun - keyboards
  * Joseph Berardi - drums
  * Beth Anderson, Evon Williams, John Batdorf, Larry Grennan - background vocals
  * Elmo Smith - saxophone
  * Don Teshner - steel guitar on "Snaketrain"
  * David Sutton - bass guitar on "Right Through You"
  * Jeff Boynton - piano on "Right Through You"
  
  ## Chart positions
  
  ### Singles
  
  | Year | Title | Peak Chart positions |
  | - | - | - |
  | Year | Title | US |
  | 1991 | "I Wanna Be a Boss" | 13 |
  | "—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart. |||
  