| Billy Nayer Show, the / Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, |
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| Album: | Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Billy Nayer Show, the | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
| Label: | Big Sam's Giant Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-09-27 | Pull Date: | 2004-11-29 |
| Week Ending: | Nov 21 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 | Oct 17 | Oct 10 | Oct 3 |
| 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 | |
| 2. | Mar 03, 2018: | Music Casserole The Smallest Star, Here Comes You Know Who | 5. | Nov 16, 2004: | All This - And Mor! Knitting Favorites | |
| 3. | Dec 30, 2015: | Music Casserole Head of a Cat | 6. | Nov 03, 2004: | press and release Dreamland Massacre |
| Album Review |
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| Mor Reviewed 2004-09-22 | ||
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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 ------ 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 ------ 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 |
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| 1. | Dreamland Massacre | 12. | Here Comes You Know Who | |||
| 2. | Suffering | 13. | The Message | |||
| 3. | Don't Worry Honey | 14. | The Promise | |||
| 4. | Three Monkeys | 15. | Angel Projector | |||
| 5. | Hard Job | 16. | Slim | |||
| 6. | Head of a Cat | 17. | Love Waltz | |||
| 7. | Angel in a Tree | 18. | Knitting Favorites | |||
| 8. | It's Love | 19. | My Cat | |||
| 9. | Bees | 20. | Sad Girl 2 | |||
| 10. | Sad Girl | 21. | Coward's Paradise | |||
| 11. | The Smallest Star | 22. | The Day I Died | |||
| 23. | Straplight Sarentino | |||||