Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire - Oh! The Grandeur CD

1."Candy Shop"  3:42

2."Tea & Thorazine"  4:16

3."Wishing for Contentment"  3:11

4."Wait" (Lyrics adapted from the poem Wait by Galway Kinnell) 4:47

5."The Idiot's Genius"  2:33

6."Vidalia"  2:50

7."Beware"  4:21

8."Dora Goes to Town"  3:03

9."Feetlips"  3:05

10."And So..."  1:24

11."Coney Island Shuffle"  5:00

12."Respiration"  2:10

13."(What's Your) Angle?"  3:28

14."The Confession"  5:04

15."Beware (Reprise)" (+ Bonus track: "A Drinking Song In the Grande Style") 5:45

RYKODISC 1999

 

Oh! The Grandeur is Andrew Bird's second album with the Bowl of Fire. The first track, "Candy Shop", was recorded as a demo track for the then-upcoming Tim Robbins film, Cradle Will Rock (though the song did not appear in the film). Another track of note on this album is "Tea & Thorazine," which was inspired by Bird's autistic brother's experience with mental institutions. The song mentions a "Dr. B" and Bird identifies him in the album liner notes as Bruno Bettelheim, an early autism researcher.