Night of the Shooting Stars

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Night of the Shooting Stars is a 2001 album by Rheostatics.

It is the band's first conventional album since 1996's The Blue Hysteria. It is also Don Kerr's final album with the band.

The album was released on Perimeter Records.

Two songs on the album are new versions of songs that appeared on earlier albums. "Song of the Garden" first appeared on 1999's The Story of Harmelodia, and "The Junction Foil Ball" appeared on 1998's The Nightlines Sessions.

[edit] Track listing

As with most of the band's albums, songwriting credit goes to varying combinations of the band members: Martin Tielli, Dave Bidini and Tim Vesely. (Kerr does not receive songwriting credits.) Credit for each song is listed below.

1. "These Days Are Good for the Canadian Conservative Youth Party Alliance" (5:44) - Tielli
2. "Song of the Garden" (3:28) - Dave Merritt and Mike Bonnell
3. "Mumbletypeg" (3:50) - Bidini
4. "P.I.N." (3:38) - Tielli
5. "Superdifficult" (2:36) - Vesely
6. "The Junction Foil Ball" (4:51) - Tielli
7. "We Went West" (5:12) - Vesely
8. "The Fire" (5:37) - Bidini/Tielli
9. "In It Now" (2:08) - Vesely
10. "Here to There to You" (3:25) - Bidini
11. "The Reward" (4:21) - Tielli
12. "Remain Calm" (3:56) - Vesely
13. "Satan is the Whistler" (6:05) - Tielli