Lawrence Arms "Cocktails & Dreams" LP Alkaline Trio NOFX The Broadways Slapstick
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The Lawrence Arms "Cocktails & Dreams" 2xLP Asian Man Records (US)
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Track Listing
1 Intransit2 Quincentuple Your Money
3 100 Resolutions
4 There's No Place Like A Stranger's Floor
5 Hey, What Time Is 'Pensacola: Wings Of Gold' On, Anyway?
6 Presenting: The Dancing Machine (The Robot With The Monkey Head)
7 Overheated
8 Necrotism: Decanting The Insalubrious (Cyborg Midnight) Part 7
9 A Boring Story
10 Faintly Falling Ashes
11 A Toast
12 Nebraska
13 Another Boring Story
14 Joyce Carol Is A Boring Old Biddy
15 The Old Timer's 2x4
16.1 Turnstiles
16.2 Old Mexico Way
16.3 Purple Haze
16.4 Heaven Help Me
Ghost Stories is a punk rock album by the Chicago, Illinois band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2000 by Asian Man Records. It was the band's second full-length album. With this release the band moved away from the political nature of some of their previous songs in favor of more introspective lyrics. Also, while singer/bassist Brendan Kelly had handled the majority of lead vocals on their previous album A Guided Tour of Chicago, on this album he and singer/guitarist Chris McCaughan split vocal duties almost equally. This singing style would continue throughout their next several albums, and eventually the two would begin to share lead vocals in an almost duet style.
Two of the album's tracks, "Turnstyles" and "The Old Timer's 2x4" were later re-recorded for the 2005 b-sides compilation album Cocktails and Dreams. All three hidden tracks were also re-released on that album. "Purple Haze" was later rewritten and re-recorded for the Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP as "Faintly Falling Ashes."
The Lawrence Arms are an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999 and currently recording for Fat Wreck Chords. They have released five full-length albums and toured extensively. Their music and lyrics juxtapose references from history and literature with American pop culture.Pre-history
Prior to forming the Lawrence Arms, the three band members were active in other Chicago-area bands. Brendan Kelly had played in the ska punk band Slapstick alongside Dan Andriano, who would later join Alkaline Trio (the two would reunite in 2004 to form The Falcon). Chris McCaughan had played in Tricky Dick before joining Kelly in The Broadways. McCaughan and Kelly also shared an apartment together on Chicago's north side. Neil Hennessy, meanwhile, had played in a band called Baxter. Both Slapstick and the Broadways released albums on Asian Man Records, a small record label based in Monte Sereno, California that would later release albums by the Lawrence Arms.
Formation and Asian Man years
The three musicians came together to form the Lawrence Arms in 1999, taking their name from the apartment complex in which Kelly and McCaughan had lived before being evicted in the middle of the night. Although punk rock bands in their infancy generally start out by releasing EPs and 7" vinyl singles, the band members used their existing relationship with Asian Man Records to immediately begin recording a full-length album, A Guided Tour of Chicago, which was released later that year. A second album, Ghost Stories, followed in 2000. Both albums focused heavily on the members' own stories of growing up and living in Chicago.
The band's next two releases were split EPs with other bands. The first, a split with Shady View Terrace, was released in 2000 and was their first release to be recorded by Matt Allison, who would continue to record and produce all of their subsequent releases. A second EP, Present Day Memories, was released in 2001 and was a split with the band The Chinkees.
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