Watoosh!

Infobox Album
Name = Watoosh!
Type = Album
Artist = "Pezz" (Billy Talent)


Released = start date|1998
Recorded = 1998 in Mississauga, Ontario
Genre = Indie rock, Art Punk, Progressive rock
Length = 36:55
Label = Self-Release (Re-release: Atlantic Records)
Producer = Brad "Merlin" Nelson
Last album = "Dudebox" (as "Pezz") (1995)
This album = "Watoosh!" (as "Pezz") (1998)
Next album = "Try Honesty EP" (2001)

"Watoosh!" is the debut album released in 1998 from the Canadian band formerly known as "Pezz", now known as Billy Talent. Pezz had changed their band name in 1999 after an American band with the same name threatened to sue them. The album was re-released again in 2005 through Atlantic Records.

Track listing

:All songs written by "Pezz" (Billy Talent) except "New Orleans Is Sinking" originally by The Tragically Hip.
#"M & M" - 4:16
#"Fairytale" - 4:21
#"Nita" - 4:51
#"Mother's Native Instrument" - 4:56
#"Bird in the Basement" - 3:44
#"Recap" - 3:40
#"When I Was a Little Girl" - 2:05
#"Warmth of Windows" - 3:03
#"Square Root of Me" - 3:57
#"Absorbed" - 5:22
#"Silence" (Instrumental) - 0:33
#"New Orleans Is Sinking" - 1:15

Personnel

*Benjamin Kowalewicz - lead vocals
*Ian D'Sa - lead guitar, backing vocals
*Jon Gallant - bass, backing vocals
*Aaron Solowoniuk - drums
*Brad Nelson - Producer

Trivia

*The track "M & M" is about a group of gothic kids that used to come into the HMV where Kowalewicz worked. [ [http://www.fm96.com/station/ongoing_history_of_new_music.cfm?recID=151&ell=8943&pge=1# The Ongoing History of New Music] . "Before They Were Famous" "Original Broadcast date: 13-11-05 on CFNY."]
*The New Orleans Is Sinking is a faster version of the Tragically Hip song.

ee also

*Billy Talent
*Dudebox
*Demoluca

References

External links

* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=92981802/ Pezz's Myspace]