The Gay Parade

by of Montreal

The Gay Parade cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 February 1999
  • Label: Bar/None
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:13
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Kevin Barnes, Heather McIntosh, Sara Kirkpatrick

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A shining beacon of the Elephant 6 collective, 'The Gay Parade' is an immensely playful, theatrical, and concept-driven psychedelic pop album. Kevin Barnes crafts incredibly dense, baroque arrangements full of quirky humor, bittersweet melodies, and chaotic toy-town joyousness.

Genres

Descriptors: lgbtq, conceptual, melodic, theatrical, eccentric

Tracklist

  1. Old Familiar Way (2:25)
  2. Fun Loving Nun (2:17)
  3. Tulip Baroo (2:10)
  4. Jacques Lamure (2:31)
  5. The March of the Gay Parade (2:55)
  6. Neat Little Domestic Life (2:45)
  7. A Collection of Poems About Water (3:57)
  8. Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst/I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon (2:40)
  9. The Autobiographical Grandpa (2:19)
  10. The Miniature Philosopher (1:54)
  11. My Friend Will Be Me (3:54)
  12. My Favorite Boxer (3:01)
  13. Advice From a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage (2:08)
  14. A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off a Cliff into the Ocean (3:04)
  15. Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree (5:21)
  16. The Gay Parade Outro (0:47)

Credits

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