Bird Dog
Studio album by
The Verlaines
Released1987
RecordedAug 1986-Mar 1987
LabelFlying Nun Records/Homestead Records
The Verlaines chronology
Hallelujah All The Way Home
(1985) 		Bird Dog
(1987) 		Juvenilia
(1987)
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Bird Dog is an album by The Verlaines, released in 1987.[2][3][4] The album is often considered to be the Verlaines' best, most introspective piece of work, with songs such as "Slow Sad Love Song," "Bird Dog," and "C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me" all appearing on You're Just Too Obscure for Me, the group's only compilation to span their entire career.

"Slow Sad Love Song" was the first song Graeme Downes ever wrote, in 1980, inspired by the suicide of a friend.

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes.

  1. "Makes No Difference"
  2. "You Forget Love"
  3. "Take Good Care of It"
  4. "Just Mum"
  5. "Slow Sad Love Song"
  6. "Only Dream Left"
  7. "Dippy's Last Trip"
  8. "Bird Dog"
  9. "Icarus Missed"
  10. "C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me"

References

  1. ^ Bird Dog at AllMusic
  2. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Verlaines". www.trouserpress.com.
  3. ^ Stafford, Andrew (27 January 2017). "Flying Nun Records: 10 of the best songs of the Dunedin sound". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ LLC, SPIN Media (26 February 1990). "The World Through a Whiskey Glass". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC – via Google Books.

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