Slideshows (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Slideshows
Type = studio
Artist = Thirsty Merc


Released = April 21, 2007
Recorded = 2006 - 2007
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Warner
Producer = Lindsay Gravina
Reviews =
Last album = "Thirsty Merc"
(2004)
This album = "Slideshows"
(2007)
Next album = —
Misc = Singles
Name = Thirsty Merc
Type = studio
single 1 = 20 Good Reasons
single 1 date = March 17, 2007
single 2 = The Hard Way
single 2 date = September 15, 2007
single 3 = Those Eyes
single 3 date = December 8, 2007
single 4 = Homesick
single 4 date = May 3, 2008

"Slideshows" is the second studio album release by Australian rock band Thirsty Merc. It was released on April 21, 2007, through Warner Music Australia. Three singles were released from the album. Including the first single "20 Good Reasons", which became Thirsty Merc's first single to peak in the top 10 on the ARIA charts. The second single from the album was "The Hard Way", followed by "Those Eyes", which was released as a Digital download in December 2007, only later to be released on CD in April 2008.

"Slideshows" marks the first album with guitarist Sean Carey, since joining the band just after the first studio album's release. As with the band's first album, "Slideshows" is produced by Lindsay Gravina and engineered by Rob Long. The album is currently featured on NineMSN, with all of its songs available for streaming download. [ [http://music.ninemsn.com.au/playlist.aspx?sectionid=2465&sectionname=artistfeature&subsectionid=9587&subsectionname=thirstymerc&categoryid=2587 NineMSN Artist Feature] on "Slideshows".] .

Cover art

The cover art is a high contrast silhouetted Polaroid photo of the band standing in a line (from left to right: Rai Thistlethwayte, Sean Carey, Phil Stack and Karl Robertson) but you cannot see their faces. The silhouettes are dark brown against an amber background. The whole image is distressed, giving it an "aged" look. The logo for Thirsty Merc is different from the debut EP and studio album (which were both the same as one another), in a Cooper type font with some graphic fill-art above. As the photos were from a polaroid camera (or at least made to look like they were) the polaroid white border and image artifacts found in a polaroid image are not trimmed but featured on the images throughout and on the cover, further providing a "distressed" feel. The cover of the rear of the album is a photo of the band and, alike to the front cover, in high contrast, however not as high and the image is not silhouetted, so you can see the band member's faces. The inside slip maintains the colorus throughout, remaining in brown, amber and general autumn colours. The single "20 Good Reasons" uses the same basic colours, logo and a similar high contrast image, consistent with the album.

ongs

The album includes twelve songs. The songs are, according to the band, more mature than the debut album by the band. The first song publicly and widely released was "The Vision", released in January 2007 on the band's official website, followed a few weeks later by "20 Good Reasons" which was later announced and released as the album's first single. The band has since removed "The Vision" from their MySpace, replacing it with "The Hard Way", which has been confirmed the second single from the album.

Track listing

Originally, there were two distinct versions of the album's tracklisting advertised, one from the band's own website and another from several other sources. The main difference between the two versions of the track listing was that the song "The Whole World Reminds Me Of You" was not included on the listing on the band's own website. As this song is the only one that uses the word "fuck", it's a possibility this tracklisting was one that was proposed to avoid the language warning label.

Otherwise, the only difference was the track sequence. Notably, both versions began with "She's All I Got" and end with "Homesick." The version released was the iTunes and Warner Music version, meanwhile the track listing on the band's own website remains as it originally was, however no versions in stores or online contain the track listing from their site.
# "She's All I Got" — 4:13
# "20 Good Reasons" — 3:49
# "The Hard Way" — 4:24
# "The Whole World Reminds Me Of You" — 4:38
# "Those Eyes" — 4:43
# "The Vision" — 4:24
# "Crying In Denial" — 4:42
# "Now Or Never" — 4:34
# "Hey Jacinta" — 4:26
# "She's My Brother" — 3:49
# "Kaleidoscope" — 3:57
# "Homesick" — 4:28
# "20 Good Reasons" (Acoustic) — 4:22
*iTunes only pre-order inclusions:
# "The Whole World Reminds Me Of You" (Acoustic)
# "She's All I Got" (Acoustic)
#* "20 Good Reasons" (Video)
#* "Slideshows" (Digital Booklet)

Personnel

*Rai Thistlethwayte:Guitars, Pianos & Singer-Songwriter
*Phil Stack:Bass guitar & Backing vocals
*Karl Robertson:Drums & percussion
*Sean Carey:guitars & Backing vocals

References