Billy Nayer Show, the / Goodbye Straplight Sarentino,
Album: | Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Billy Nayer Show, the | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
Label: | Big Sam's Giant Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2004-09-27 | Pull Date: | 2004-11-29 |
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Week Ending: | Nov 21 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 | Oct 17 | Oct 10 | Oct 3 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 03, 2021: | Rebroadcast: Music Casserole
Head of a Cat, Here Comes You Know Who |
4. | Apr 25, 2015: | Music Casserole
Head of a Cat, Here Comes You Know Who |
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2. | Mar 03, 2018: | Music Casserole
The Smallest Star, Here Comes You Know Who |
5. | Nov 16, 2004: | All This - And Mor!
Knitting Favorites |
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3. | Dec 30, 2015: | Music Casserole
Head of a Cat |
6. | Nov 03, 2004: | press and release
Dreamland Massacre |
Album Review
Mor
Reviewed 2004-09-22
Reviewed 2004-09-22
The Billy Nayer Show / Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, I Will Miss You
Bizarreness at its most marvelous glory! fun album from veteran Local/NYC band; the genre is indie rock, but the style is unclassifiable. I want whatever drugs these guys are on! Often dark, bizarre, psychedelic in a way, and this goes for both the music and the lyrics. I am lost for other adjectives. This is a double CD but it doesn't spread thin, almost every track is worthwhile. Try them.
Incidentally, the band, led by Cory McAbee, also made a movie (The American Astronaut) and its soundtrack of course.
FCC: CD1 track 4. Recommended: CD1 tracks 1, 4, 6 and CD2 tracks 1, 6, 7.
CD 1
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1. * Upbeat indie-rocker, roaming vocal delivery. *
2. Dramatic, distorted bass growl, low-key vox, explodes with multiple saxophones.
3. Strumming and buzzing, mid tempo classic tune, playful vox.
4. ** FCC (shit) Dramatically delivered demented tale of three monkeys living on a giant triangle eating each other’s shit. Really. Give me those drugs! **
5. Rockabilly touch, deep vox, mid/uptempo more and more layers added until all dropped for accordion.
6. * Slow, dramatic; not your usual guitars, drums and bass shoegazer– strange lyrics, two male vocals, anti religion? Great. *
7. Mid tempo. Simple autoharp strumming with dramatic vox, other instruments enter.
8. Mid/slow autoharp strum with dramatic backdrop. Ends with "wind" sound effect (30 secs)
9. High pitched strum/pick with Chinese touch turns into moody sax solo. Instrumental.
10. Levels set on 11. Uptempo, noisy,
11. Starts loud and transitions (a-la Deerhoof) to quiet bit with “angelic” vox; takes a turn into a long George Harrison-like guitar solo.
CD 2
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1. *Prog soundscape, repetitive religious-chant-spoof like lyrics, distant vox, mid tempo. *
2. Strumming, slow/mid, Billy Bragg like pompous delivery, silly backing vox, could also be a religious spoof again (“I got a message to give to you”).
3. Gently picked slow folky tune.
4. Short filler/outro, bass/drum and other sounds.
5. Mid/uptempo, ukulele and percussion, gets louder midway, not much in way of lyrics.
6. * Loud, heavily distorted, dramatic, short instrumental except a shout – “I love you” – at the end. *
7. * Driving guitar riff, unintelligible stuttered syllables, rock & roll! *
8. Gentle picking and singing, I guess it’s a love song, but strange.
9. Ukalele, mid tempo strum, acoustic guitar.
10. Music intro, then spoken lyrics, then guitars come back with semi-spoken lyrics. Mid/slow.
11. Slow, drums, touch of electric guitar, some build up, quiet ending. Life story.
12. * Farewell song, starts acoustically, turns quirky cabaret-like, quiet again, neo-folk ending. *
Bizarreness at its most marvelous glory! fun album from veteran Local/NYC band; the genre is indie rock, but the style is unclassifiable. I want whatever drugs these guys are on! Often dark, bizarre, psychedelic in a way, and this goes for both the music and the lyrics. I am lost for other adjectives. This is a double CD but it doesn't spread thin, almost every track is worthwhile. Try them.
Incidentally, the band, led by Cory McAbee, also made a movie (The American Astronaut) and its soundtrack of course.
FCC: CD1 track 4. Recommended: CD1 tracks 1, 4, 6 and CD2 tracks 1, 6, 7.
CD 1
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1. * Upbeat indie-rocker, roaming vocal delivery. *
2. Dramatic, distorted bass growl, low-key vox, explodes with multiple saxophones.
3. Strumming and buzzing, mid tempo classic tune, playful vox.
4. ** FCC (shit) Dramatically delivered demented tale of three monkeys living on a giant triangle eating each other’s shit. Really. Give me those drugs! **
5. Rockabilly touch, deep vox, mid/uptempo more and more layers added until all dropped for accordion.
6. * Slow, dramatic; not your usual guitars, drums and bass shoegazer– strange lyrics, two male vocals, anti religion? Great. *
7. Mid tempo. Simple autoharp strumming with dramatic vox, other instruments enter.
8. Mid/slow autoharp strum with dramatic backdrop. Ends with "wind" sound effect (30 secs)
9. High pitched strum/pick with Chinese touch turns into moody sax solo. Instrumental.
10. Levels set on 11. Uptempo, noisy,
11. Starts loud and transitions (a-la Deerhoof) to quiet bit with “angelic” vox; takes a turn into a long George Harrison-like guitar solo.
CD 2
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1. *Prog soundscape, repetitive religious-chant-spoof like lyrics, distant vox, mid tempo. *
2. Strumming, slow/mid, Billy Bragg like pompous delivery, silly backing vox, could also be a religious spoof again (“I got a message to give to you”).
3. Gently picked slow folky tune.
4. Short filler/outro, bass/drum and other sounds.
5. Mid/uptempo, ukulele and percussion, gets louder midway, not much in way of lyrics.
6. * Loud, heavily distorted, dramatic, short instrumental except a shout – “I love you” – at the end. *
7. * Driving guitar riff, unintelligible stuttered syllables, rock & roll! *
8. Gentle picking and singing, I guess it’s a love song, but strange.
9. Ukalele, mid tempo strum, acoustic guitar.
10. Music intro, then spoken lyrics, then guitars come back with semi-spoken lyrics. Mid/slow.
11. Slow, drums, touch of electric guitar, some build up, quiet ending. Life story.
12. * Farewell song, starts acoustically, turns quirky cabaret-like, quiet again, neo-folk ending. *
Track Listing
1. | Dreamland Massacre | 13. | The Message | |||
2. | Suffering | 14. | The Promise | |||
3. | Don't Worry Honey | 15. | Angel Projector | |||
4. | Three Monkeys | 16. | Slim | |||
5. | Hard Job | 17. | Love Waltz | |||
6. | Head of a Cat | 18. | Knitting Favorites | |||
7. | Angel in a Tree | 19. | My Cat | |||
8. | It's Love | 20. | Sad Girl 2 | |||
9. | Bees | 21. | Coward's Paradise | |||
10. | Sad Girl | 22. | The Day I Died | |||
11. | The Smallest Star | 23. | Straplight Sarentino | |||
12. | Here Comes You Know Who | . |