Of Montreal
The Gay Parade
Label:  Bar/None Records 
Date:  2/16/1999
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Indie
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Old Familiar Way    
      2.  
      Fun Loving Nun    
      3.  
      Tulip Baroo    
      4.  
      The Jacques Lamure    
      5.  
      March of the Gay Parade    
      6.  
      A Neat Little Domestic Life    
      7.  
      Collection of Poems About Water    
      8.  
      Y the Quale and the Vaguely Bird Noisly Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst    
      9.  
      The I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon    
      10.  
      The Autobiographical Grandpa    
      11.  
      Miniature Philosopher    
      12.  
      My Favorite Boxer    
      13.  
      A Advice from a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend ...    
      14.  
      Man' Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off ...    
      15.  
      The Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree    
      16.  
      Gay Parade Outro    
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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