A Guide For the Daylight Hours

A Guide For the Daylight Hours Artist: Ballboy
Label: Manifesto Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 767004330228
EAN: 0767004330228
ASIN: B0000AM6H4


Release Date: 2003-08-12

A Guide For the Daylight Hours


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Tracks:

  1. Avant Garde Music
  2. Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me
  3. You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Around With Arseholes
  4. I Wonder If You're Drunk Enough To Sleep With Me Tonight
  5. I Lost You, But I Found Country Music
  6. A Europewide Search For Love
  7. Something's Going To Happen Soon
  8. Nobody Really Knows Anything
  9. Sex Is Boring
  10. Meet Me At The Shooting Range
  11. All The Records On The Radio Are Shite
  12. A Man's A Man For A' That

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Product Description

1. Avant Garde Music
2. Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go When They Do Not Come To Me
3. You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Around With Arseholes
4. I Wonder If You're Drunk Enough To Sleep With Me Tonight
5. I Lost You, But I Found Country Music
6. A Europewide Search For Love
7. Something's Going To Happen Soon
8. Nobody Really Knows Anything
9. Sex Is Boring
10. Meet Me At The Shooting Range

Bonus Tracks:
11. All The Records On The Radio Are Shite
12. A Man's Man For A' That

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Mediocre, probably from trying too hard..........2004-06-28

Trying to hard to emulate what are obviously very profound influences on these lads. To wit, first and foremost, Robin Hitchcock. Definitely. Try as ye may, you won't be able to match his wit, lyricism or ability for clever banter. The second, early Violent Femmes. Trust me, the influence is there as well. The sort of self-depricating, slightly off-kilter humor that the VF's were so known for, and which got me through so much of my early adolescence. Third, The Beautiful South - risen from the fall-out of what were once The Housemartins. Pick anything by them, pay particular attention to the black-humor within the lyrical content, as well as the poppiness of the music and you'll see the strive by these lads to match it. What is perhaps fourth, fifth and sixth all mish-mashed in some great jumbo stew, are the apparent tendencies for appreciation of Jarvis Cocker, early Morrissey (though not quite as morbid or melancholic) early Elvis Costello (though without the pop-sensibility) and, I don't know, take your pick of someone else (say, for instance, Tim Booth and the lads from James).

The bottom line is that these boys are good at what they do. But, if it hadn't been done 20 years previously (and done much better mind you), this would be absolutely novel and earth-shattering. As it is, it just amounts to a stalwart "good." "Good" for listening to as you pine over a few pints of McEwan's, but beyond that, nothing that will be with you a very long time now from now.

4 out of 5 stars Mercurial music for the intensely bi-polar.......2003-12-10

I often used to think it was the Shins who had picked up Belle & Sebastian's fallen mantle, but in reality, the better standard bearer is Ballboy. Whereas the Shins project a lazy beautiful melancholy, Ballboy--like fellow Scots B&S--are possessed by a bitter undercurrent of smart-alecky cynicism. Altho' Ballboy's attitudes are obviously deeply informed by their Scottish roots, it's easy to identify within any band who write songs with such wonderful titles as "You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Around with Arseholes."

Lyrics like "Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with you anyway/ there's nothing and no-one you like and who likes you the way i do" perfectly sum up the frustration of falling in love with the miserable girl who can never return those affections. And the fact that it's all thrust up against an indisputably poppy and cheery beat ultimately makes the whole thing a poignantly sad tribute to doomed romance.

Other highlights include "Avante Garde Music" about an indier-than-thou girl who works in a record shop, and the lovely self-deprecating "Sex is Boring" which intones "tie me up and strip me naked/ and lie me on your floor/ and then you'll see that sex is boring with me."

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