Bird Dog (album)

Bird Dog
Studio album by The Verlaines
Released	1987
Recorded	Aug 1986-Mar 1987
Label	Flying Nun Records/Homestead Records
The Verlaines chronology
Hallelujah All The Way Home (1985) Bird Dog (1987) Juvenilia (1987)

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Bird Dog is an album released in 1987 by The Verlaines. The album is often considered to be The Verlaines best, most introspective piece of work, with songs such as Slow Sad Love Song, Bird Dog and C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me all appearing on You're just too obscure for me, the group's only compilation to span their entire career. Slow Sad Love Song was the first song Graeme Downes ever wrote, in 1980, inspired by the suicide of a friend.

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes.

1. "Makes No Difference"
2. "You Forget Love"
3. "Take Good Care of It"
4. "Just Mum"
5. "Slow Sad Love Song"
6. "Only Dream Left"
7. "Dippy's Last Trip"
8. "Bird Dog"
9. "Icarus Missed"
10. "C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me"

References

• http://www.grimalco.com/verlaines/bio.htm
• http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/dunedin/downes.asp