- Broken Star
Infobox Album
Name = Broken Star
Type =Album
Artist =The Broadways
Released = 1998
Recorded =September 1997 atAtlas Studios ,Chicago ,Illinois
Genre =Punk rock
Length = 43:12
Label =Asian Man Records
Producer = Matt Allison
Reviews =
Last album = "Big City Life"
This album = "Broken Star"
(1998)
Next album = "Broken Van "
(2000)"Broken Star" is the debut album by
The Broadways .Reissue
In 2007 and 2008,
Asian Man Records announced plans to reissue both of the band's albums on vinyl and CD. "Broken Star" had long since sold out on vinyl, while "Broken Van" had been CD-only; both had for some time been out of stock on CD. [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Aua51DkHkUQJ:www.asianmanrecords.com/]Track listing
The primary vocalist/lyricist for each song is given.
# "15 Minutes" (Hanaway) – 3:12
# "Everything I Ever Wanted To Know AboutGenocide I Learned In The Third Grade" (Kelly) – 1:58
# "The Kitchen Floor" (McCaughan) – 1:25
# "Police Song" (Hanaway, McCaughan) – 2:48
# "Upton" (Kelly, McCaughan) – 3:03
# "Restless" (McCaughan) – 3:42
# "Jonathan Kozol Was Right..." (Kelly) – 2:43
# "We'll Have A Party" (Hanaway) – 4:33
# "Red Line" (Kelly) – 2:07
# "I Hear Things Are Just As Bad Down InLake Erie " (Hanaway, McCaughan, Kelly) – 4:34
# "Fuck You Larry Koesche, I Hope You Starve And Die Someday" (Hanaway) – 3:27
# "25 Degrees North" (Kelly) – 2:01
# "Ben Moves To California" (Hanaway, Kelly) – 2:10
# "The Pope Of Chili-Town" (Kelly) – 1:54
# "The Nautical Mile" (McCaughan; lyrics co-written with Sean Nader) – 3:38Personnel
*
Brendan Kelly – bass, vocals
*Dan Hanaway –guitar , vocals
*Chris McCaughan – guitar, vocals
*Rob DePaola – drumsTrivia
* The passage spoken by Chris at the close of "Upton" is an excerpt from
Salman Rushdie 'sMidnight's Children . [http://www.edurete.org/pd/sele_art.asp?ida=1730]
* Brendan Kelly has stated: "Larry Koesche is the manager of a grocery store who prevented some of us from getting food out of the dumpsters behind the store." This ties in with the song's theme of homelessness.
* During a live show [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHK3P3zsv8] Brendan revealed that the "my friend" from "25 Degrees North" is the same one from the "Big City Life" / "Broken Van " song "I Think I Shall Never See..."
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