Of Montreal - Gay Parade
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Artist: Of MontrealEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Music Label: Bar/None Records
Soundtracks:
- Old Familiar Way
- Fun Loving Nun
- Tulip Barco
- Jaques Lamure
- The March Of The Gay Parade
- Neat Little Domestic Life
- A Collection Of Poems About Water
- Y The Quale And Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst
- I'd Be A Yellow Feathered Loon
- The Autobiographical Grandpa
- The Miniature Philosopher
- My Friend Will Be Me
- My Favorite Boxer
- Advice From A Divorced Gentlemen To His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage
- A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He And His Wife Drive Off A Cliff Into The Ocean
- Nickee Coco And the Invisible Tree
Music reviews of Gay Parade
Music Review: Maybe the worst record I have ever heard
Rating: 1 Stars
This record is awful. I haven't been this burned by gushing amazon reviews and recommendations since I bought Jellyfish's Spilt Milk. For years I thought that was the worst pop album ever made. It's not. This one is.
First and foremost, the comparisons other reviews are making with Brian Wilson and/or Paul McCartney are ridiculous. I'm pretty sure the 'lost' Smile sessions didn't involve the Beach Boys playing kazoos and a circus organ while an Alvin and the Chipmunks impersonator sang lyrics like these:
Gaily gaily glee
gaily glee gaily gaily glee
Green glass fish glide
cream colored glass
Umi ni ukande means floating on the sea
Me and my pussycat floating on the sea
After I listened to this, I told the missus, "Think of the lamest, sappiest, written-in-5 seconds repetitious Paul McCartney song you can think of. Now replace the musicians and instruments with a bunch of kids slamming around junk you'd find in a garage. Put the out of tune singer in a helium chamber, mix it all together on a tape recorder and not in a studio, and you have this record."
I am not kidding. The liner notes credit four (4!) people with 'jumping on furnace'. Granted, two of these are 'holding hands' while doing the jumping and another is 'woo-wooing' so I should probably give them some slack as they may have been distracted during the recording lending to the less than perfect results heard on this album.
The Kinks did a great job capturing slice of life with Face to Face, Village Green Preservation Society and Muswell Hillbillies and the aforementioned Paul McCartney does it better even on his lamest, sappiest, written-in-5 seconds repetitious songs. Just because this is an album with songs about ordinary people doesn't automatically qualify it to be ranked at the level of The Kinks or McCartney (or Springsteen or Westerberg or Reed, etc. etc.)
As a concept it falls completely flat. In terms of believable characters and a thematic whole, Dream Theatre, Styx, Jethro Tull, ELO and Rush actually succeeded better back in the 1980's than this thing does (even if the musical genre is a complete opposite).
Lastly let's mention the title itself - try as these self-important folks might, a ridiculous sounding band name with no discernable musical ability being put out on a third rate label isn't going to bring enlightentment to the masses about the word 'gay'. Especially when coupled with 'parade'.
I had to backtrack to figure out why amazon recommeded this album highly to me. What I've found is that my sometimes quirky pop tastes (Neutral Milk Hotel, Flaming Lips, Starlight Mints and Super Furry Animals to name a few) are responsible. Looks like I have a lot of re-rating to do.
If you're looking for pop experimentation and haven't yet run throught the catalogs of those bands I mentioned in the last paragraph or those of Radiohead, Wilco, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Galaxie 500, The Pixies, Velvet Underground, and Pavement go do that first.
If you need to hear the legacy of Brian Wilson in modern music look no further than the Wondermints. Wilson even tapped this band to back him up on tour. Actual instruments, in tune singing and quality production make up their records.
Every single thing I've heard by every other band I have mentioned in this review (and that includes those space themed rock opera albums from the 80's as well as the horrible Jellyfish record) is better than Of Montreal's The Gay Parade.
Quite frankly, every other thing I've ever heard, including listening to the missus sing snippets of Green Day songs while she does the dishes, is as well. Stay Away.
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