Tragic Daydreams
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| Tragic Daydreams | |||||
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| Studio album by Mandy Kane | |||||
| Released | April 4, 2004 | ||||
| Recorded | 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | ||||
| Length | 51:40 | ||||
| Label | Warner Music Australia | ||||
| Producer | Mandy Kane | ||||
| Mandy Kane chronology | |||||
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Tragic Daydreams refers to the pure, early visions that sparked the creation of Mandy Kane’s debut album. Each track is a story born of his own, often dark and brooding imagination, each inspired by direct experience and filtered through the unreal mental labyrinth that he’s long called home.
[edit] Track listing
- "Stab" – 3:49
- "Billy Bones" – 3:21
- "Spastic Annie" – 3:36
- "Stupid Friday" – 4:20
- "Apparition" – 4:26
- "Yes! Matron" – 3:22
- "Ordinary Guy" – 3:45
- "Make Believe" – 3:38
- "Subsequently Sad" – 4:22
- "Touch" – 4:06
- "Trailer Trash Theme Park" – 4:02
- "The Mannequin Ball" – 4:52
- "Traces" – 4:01
[edit] Singles
| "Stab" | |||||||||
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Mandy Kane, a new Australian singer-songwriter is on a strange and wonderful trajectory from his room to the world. "I'm just writing songs in my room, making up characters, imagining what they might do," says the 20-year-old multi-instrumentalist, sound producer and daydreamer. "I guess Mandy Kane happened when I was 17 or 18," although I'd been picking up things, both visual sources and musical, since I was a kid."
That kid has memories of listening to his mother's records, cutting loose from Planet Earth like Major Tom, cruising the sonic space-scapes of Pink Floyd, inexplicably bursting into tears over John Lennon's Jealous Guy. "That emotional response was very powerful," Mandy says. "It got me fascinated about how that worked, why it had that effect on me. I started wondering how I could I replicate that effect, make people feel like that." "STAB was written during the war on Iraq, but it was like we were being bombarded too, by the media. I was thinking about the effect that was having on myself and my friends. It's about the pressure of that situation and how someone might react to it..." Stab is the first single from the forthcoming album Tragic Daydreams. |
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| Chart positions | |||||||||
| # #18(AUS) [www.aria.com.au] | |||||||||
| "Billy Bones" | |||||||||
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Billy Bones’ horror-show atmosphere, galloping rock momentum and highly flammable chorus is another tantalising foretaste of Mandy’s incendiary debut album, Tragic Daydreams, written, produced and recorded in his bedroom in suburban Victoria, with additional production by Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails) and Joe Ciccarelli (Frank Zappa) in Los Angeles.
Billy Bones is a ticking time bomb. Catch him before the doctors come and take him. |
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| # #27 AUS | |||||||||
| "Stupid Friday" | |||||||||
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We’ve heard Mandy smoulder and swagger with Stab; we’ve heard him erupt in a hail of homemade explosives with Billy Bones. Now it’s time to focus on the emotional punch and sheer melodic class of his new single Stupid Friday.
Stupid Friday is a sighing song of excess, regret and determination to effect change. Riding on a gorgeous acoustic guitar and more of his distinctive synthesiser squiggles, Stupid Friday offers a surprising new dimension to Mandy Kane's kaleidoscopic character. "Stupid Friday was inspired by the desire to change, and leaving behind the person you once were. I'm constantly evolving, and this song is particularly relevant to me now, because I'm at a point in my life where I'm starting to make those changes." |
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| # #36 (AUS) | |||||||||
| "Make Believe" | |||||||||
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This song has no video and was released to radio only.
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