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Trainwreck was the second full-length album from Burlington, ON's Boys Night Out, which followed up the band's Make Yourself Sick debut LP from 2003. It was a tightly-knit concept album that followed the loss of sanity of one man following the murder of his wife he committed in his sleep.
[edit] Track listing
- "Introducing" - 3:37
- "Dreaming" - 4:52
- "Waking" - 3:36
- "Sentencing" - 3:28
- "Medicating" - 4:00
- "Purging" - 3:39
- "Relapsing" - 4:55
- "Recovering" - 4:07
- "Composing" - 5:49
- "Disintegrating" - 4:14
- "Healing" - 3:24
- "Dying" - 6:40
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[edit] Band members
- Dave Costa - bass
- Jeff Davis - guitar
- Connor Lovat-Fraser - vocals
- Kara Dupuy - keyboard/vocals
- Brian Southall - drums
[edit] Other contributors
- Machine - Production, Mixing, Engineered drums/vocals, Group vocals
- Jakob Nygard - Recorded drums, Engineered drums/guitars/vocals, Pro-tools
- Dan Korneff - Pro-tooled drums
- Sal Mormando - Assisted recording drums
- Toby 'Bias' Paice - Assisted recording guitars and vocals
- Rob Harrari - Engineered group vocals
- Ken Greenberg - Spoken word
- Diane Pacenka - Group vocals
- Dan Nigro - Guest vocals
- Heath Miller - Management
- Tammy Hennessy - Business management
- Craig Mogil - Booking
- Ron Opaleski - Booking
- Switzerland - Art direction, Design
- Gordon Ball - Photography
[edit] The Story of Trainwreck
- Introducing The doctor is talking about how he has released the patient from the hospital again, indicating it's not the first time he's been released. The patient was hospitalized because he suffered from violent horrible nightmares and killed his wife whom he loved very much in his sleep. The patient is catatonic, which is just a state of non-responsiveness, almost.
- Dreaming This song is about the night that the Patient kills his wife. He suffocates her while having a nightmare.
- Waking The Patient wakes up to realize what he's done. He calls the police and turns himself in and he is waiting for the ambulance. He can't believe what he's done, he wants to take it back. He covers the house with her perfume.
- Sentencing The judge and the doctors decide whether to charge him with murder and send him to jail or declare him mentally unstable and send him to the hospital. The doctor thinks he should be hospitalized.
- Medicating The Patient is in the hospital and tries to convince the doctor to release him. He wants to go back to his life and he thinks that the hospital is just making him worse. The doctor agrees and releases him from the hospital.
- Purging The Patient has been released and is returning into society. Everyone is shocked at his quick return into society/work considering what he did. The guilt becomes overpowering inside of him and he cuts off his hands so he won't ever kill again.
- Relapsing The Patient is back in the hospital after cutting off his hands and he begins to hear his wife's voice in his head. He begins trying to fill his emptiness by writing a song inside his head.
- Recovering The Patient is on medication since he is catatonic and he is also obviously on painkillers due to his lack of hands. He begins taking more pills than necessary and all he can hear is the song inside of his head. He takes more and more pills to keep the song playing.
- Composing The Patient convinces the doctor he's getting better and requests to see his friends and family because he thinks it'll help him recover. He has everyone over for dinner and poisons them all with Strychnine, killing them. He is "composing" his song by killing people and he thinks that he can see his wife. The song in his head keeps her alive in his mind.
- Disintegrating The Patient is completely isolated with the song inside his head. He is abusing alcohol and drugs and in a state between the living and dead. He's thinking of everyone he's killed and needs a finale to his song.
- Healing The Patient has called the doctor and he feels the song in his head coming to an end. By this time he's barely even alive and he has made a choice to get better, that's why he called the doctor. He is waiting for the doctor to arrive and take him to the hospital. The song in his head is what is keeping him alive.
- Dying The Doctor finally arrives for the Patient and finds him close to death lying in his apartment. He is surprised to find the room littered with empty alcohol bottles and pill containers. He can smell the odor of the bodies that are most likely still in the apartment and he can smell a woman's perfume, the Patient's wife's perfume. The Patient knows he is dying and he knows what he did. He is finally responding and is happy he is dying because he may believe he will be with his wife. He has a smile on his face as he begins to sing a song softly. He is looking back at everything that happened and he is just giving up on the song and on living.
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