Ghost Stories (The Lawrence Arms album)

Ghost Stories
Studio album by The Lawrence Arms
Released May 2, 2000
Recorded December 1999
Genre Punk rock
Length 41:40
Label Asian Man
The Lawrence Arms chronology

A Guided Tour of Chicago
(1999)		 Ghost Stories
(2000)		 Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP
(2000)
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Ghost Stories is a punk rock album by the Chicago, Illinois band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2000 by Asian Man Records. It was the band's second full-length album. With this release the band moved away from the political nature of some of their previous songs in favor of more introspective lyrics. Also, while singer/bassist Brendan Kelly had handled the majority of lead vocals on their previous album A Guided Tour of Chicago, on this album he and singer/guitarist Chris McCaughan split vocal duties almost equally. This singing style would continue throughout their next several albums, and eventually the two would begin to share lead vocals in an almost duet style.

Two of the album's tracks, "Turnstyles" and "The Old Timer's 2x4" were later re-recorded for the 2005 b-sides compilation album Cocktails & Dreams. All three hidden tracks were also re-released on that album. "Purple Haze" was later rewritten and re-recorded for the Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP as "Faintly Falling Ashes."

Track listing

  1. "Sixteen Hours" - 1:07
  2. "Chicago Is Burning" - 1:44
  3. "Turnstyles" - 2:28
  4. "Asa Phelps Is Dead" - 2:51
  5. "All the Week" - 1:29
  6. "The Old Timer's 2x4" - 2:10
  7. "Here Comes the Neighborhood" - 1:55
  8. "Light Breathing (Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator)" - 2:57
  9. "Ghost Stories" - 2:34
  10. "106 South" - 2:09
  11. "Minute" - 1:06
  12. "The Last One" / "Old Mexico Way" / "Purple Haze" / "Heaven Help Me" - 19:10

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