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The Gay Parade [Import]

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Product details

  • Audio CD (16 Feb 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Bar
  • ASIN: B00000I0FP
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 152,714 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Old Familiar Way 2:25£0.69
Listen  2. Fun Loving Nun 2:17£0.69
Listen  3. Tulip Baroo 2:10£0.69
Listen  4. Jacques Lamure 2:31£0.69
Listen  5. The March of the Gay Parade 2:55£0.69
Listen  6. Neat Little Domestic Life 2:45£0.69
Listen  7. A Collection of Poems About Water 3:57£0.69
Listen  8. Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst/I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon 2:40£0.69
Listen  9. The Autobiographical Grandpa 2:19£0.69
Listen10. The Miniature Philosopher 1:54£0.69
Listen11. My Friend Will Be Me 3:54£0.69
Listen12. My Favorite Boxer 3:01£0.69
Listen13. Advice From a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage 2:08£0.69
Listen14. A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off a Cliff into the Ocean 3:04£0.69
Listen15. Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree 5:21£0.69
Listen16. The Gay Parade Outro0:47£0.69

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Pop fans rejoice: Here's yet another delightful concept album from a member of the Elephant Six family, Of Montreal, who actually hail from Athens, Georgia. Of Montreal are more like third cousins to the E6 clan; their sound is cohesively pop oriented and distinctively quaint. The songs are bouncy, keyboard- and vocal-driven gems that collapse barbershop harmonies and well-enunciated, Tin Pan Alley vocalizations with Anglo mid-'60s pop (especially that of the ever-popular Kinks). The lyrics on Of Montreal's third full-length weave an intricate story in childrens-book logic, with invisible trees, a miniature philosopher, and a cast of hundreds. The words from the buoyant "Fun Loving Nun" (whose chorus appears to have been sung by the mice from Babe) can be seen as The Gay Parade's moral: "Some of us get covered up by the world, become bitter from our loneliness and forget our dreams." --Mike McGonigal

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Join the parade, 8 Jan 2006
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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Of Montreal has built a career on exuberant, sweet concept albums that bounce with life and love. "The Gay Parade" is a snapshot of them at their best -- it has the strangeness of "Cocquelicot," but is more accessable. These songs cheery oddball pop, but it sounds so uncalculated that it never quite sounds twee.

The acoustic/piano-ballad "Old Familiar Way" starts off the album, but it mostly focuses on how "It's amazing the wonders you can find/Just by stepping outside." Only at the end does Kevin Barnes greet listeners with "Welcome to the Gay Parade!" The album then switches to a bunch of songs about the glorious people, such as the bouncy dancey "Fun-Loving Nun," singsong "Tulip Baroo," and "The Miniature Philosopher."

While describing boxers, grandfathers and stuttering organ grinders, Barnes and Co. don't stray away from their typical little sweet songs: there's a carnival sound to "March of the Gay Parade," a goofy little sweet song. Elsewhere Barnes sings eagerly about the "Domestic Life," longs for special friends, and chronicles the story of Niki Coco, before finally bidding farewell in "The Gay Parade Outro."

The entire album more or less revolves around the Gay Parade, and how much happier the people in it (and near it) are. The general feeling is that it's not so much a real gathering as a state of mind -- enjoying the little things, "making friends with trees and animals," and seeing the magic of the world.

The songs rely heavily on Barnes' acoustic guitar, and the sweet piano pop that comes into the intro and outro. Little chimes and psychedelic swooshes give it an even more whimsical feel. And an electric organ gives a sort of dancey fun feel to "Fun Loving Nun," to the point where it's hard to notice Barnes' weird lyrics.

Kevin Barnes has that sort of likably offbeat voice that really sounds good in oddball pop. Sort of like Jeff Mangum, but a bit less nasal. And the songwriting is either goofy ("I'd be a yellow feathered loon for you baby/Be a German shepherd on the moon for you baby") or brilliant ("He would suddenly appear at Meg's door/He'd rent a mariachi band and respectfully demand/His dear Meg to take his hand/And to be his forever more"). You make the call -- often they're both.

Somehow the most enjoyable part of the whole thing is where where Barnes solemnly informs us, "Now that you know the way/And perhaps someday/You'll be able to stay with us/Forever inside the gay parade." In other words, hit repeat.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Tell your friends about this band! Spread the word!, 1 April 2002
The Gay Parade neatly bridges the gap between the acoustic low production of 'A Petite Tragedy..' and the incredibly complex and ambitiousness of the proceeding album-'Coquelicot Asleep in the Posies'.
The words which most accurately describe this album are-
Charming, delighful, playful, comical, retro, sureal, melodic, jolly and very clever.
This album is not as mellow as the previous, there is generally much more craziness and songs which change beat, key and lyrical direction with no warning. This is a trait which 'Of Montreal' really define themselves by in the following album.
The other trait which make 'Of Monreal' such an interesting band is the fact that they have dozens of naratives running through their songs. This album is full of stories with very colourful characters which make the songs very memorable, plus, all the characters appear in the art work on the album sleeve.
'Of Montreal' are a truly great band, to many bands take themselves way too seriously these days, which is why albums like this are such a breath of fresh air.
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