Dame Darcy (aka Arc Farrow) is one multitalented lady. Not only does she make dolls, read palms, host her own public access cable show and create the bizarro-Victorian comic Meat Cake, but she's a musician as well -- and according to her biography, has been one since the age of ten. Dame Darcy's Greatest Hits is a collection of indifferent production quality, several of the songs having been recorded live with what sounds like a Dictophone, but it's a practically endless source of entertainment. Besides penning her own quirky tunes, Farrow offers slightly twisted versions of such golden classics as "Beautiful Doll", "Ode to Joy" and, for a more contemporary source, "House of the Rising Sun". Her trademark obsession with the nineteenth century comes through in songs like the eerie autoharp ballad "Silver Dagger" and some dark folktunes ("Butcher Boy", "Willowailie"), but the more lighthearted songs define the album as well: "Chicken" (in which the refrain is "Oh, C-H-I-C-K-E-N / That's the way you spell chicken!") and the countrified "Grandma's Feather Bed" (with vocals by, I assume, a ten-year-old Dame) help keep the disc from becoming a gothic caricature. It's alternately silly and sappy and it practically screams "novelty act", but someone who wears a corset and draws comics featuring a character who speaks by vomiting Pez tablets from a bloody slit in her throat is hardly taking much seriously. Dame Darcy's Greatest Hits shows wit, irreverence and even some musical talent. Anyone who appreciates Ms. Farrow's other work (and, by extension, her sense of humor) should have no trouble getting into this.