Ghost Stories (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Ghost Stories
Type = Album
Artist = The Lawrence Arms


Released = May 2, 2000
Recorded = December 1999
Genre = Punk rock
Length = ~41:40
Label = Asian Man
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic: Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w3ae4j874wai link] |
Last album = "A Guided Tour of Chicago"
(1999)
This album = "Ghost Stories"
(2000)
Next album = Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP
(2000)

"Ghost Stories" is a punk rock album by the Chicago, Illinois band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2000 by Asian Man Records. It was the band's second full-length album. With this release the band moved away from the political nature of some of their previous songs in favor of more introspective lyrics. Also, while singer/bassist Brendan Kelly had handled the majority of lead vocals on their previous album "A Guided Tour of Chicago", on this album he and singer/guitarist Chris McCaughan split vocal duties almost equally. This singing style would continue throughout their next several albums, and eventually the two would begin to share lead vocals in an almost duet style.

Two of the album's tracks, "Turnstyles" and "The Old Timer's 2x4" were later re-recorded for the 2005 b-sides compilation album "Cocktails and Dreams". All three hidden tracks were also re-released on that album. "Purple Haze" was later rewritten and re-recorded for the Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP as "Faintly Falling Ashes."

Track listing

#"Sixteen Hours"
#"Chicago is Burning"
#"Turnstyles"
#"Asa Phelps is Dead"
#"All the Week"
#"The Old Timer's 2x4"
#"Here Comes the Neighborhood"
#"Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator)"
#"Ghost Stories"
#"106 South"
#"Minute"
#"The Last One" / "Old Mexico Way" / "Heaven Help Me" / "Purple Haze"

Performers

*Chris McCaughan - guitar, vocals
*Brendan Kelly - bass, vocals
*Neil Hennessy - drums, vocals on "106 South"

Album information

*Record label: Asian Man Records
*Recorded at Scientific Studios in December 1999 by Mike G.
*Track engineering by Neil Hennessy
*Additional engineering by Jim Godsey
*Mastered by Harry Brotman at Harry's Sonic Bistro
*Logo and disc picture by Chris Bach
*Photography by Julia, Shannon and the Lawrence Arms
*Graphics production by MaximumMac Studios