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Track List
01) The Devil's Takin' Names
02) Cut It Up
03) Great Lakes/Great Escapes
04) Recovering the Opposable Thumb
05) Beyond the Embarrassing Style
06) Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God.
07) Jumping the Shark
08) Lose Your Illusion 1
09) Requiem Revisited
10) Key to the City
11) Old Dogs Never Die
12) Like a Record Player
01) The Devil's Takin' Names
02) Cut It Up
03) Great Lakes/Great Escapes
04) Recovering the Opposable Thumb
05) Beyond the Embarrassing Style
06) Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God.
07) Jumping the Shark
08) Lose Your Illusion 1
09) Requiem Revisited
10) Key to the City
11) Old Dogs Never Die
12) Like a Record Player
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First Released
2006
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Oh! Calcutta! is a punk rock album by the Chicago band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2006 by Fat Wreck Chords. It is the band's fifth full-length album and their third to be released on Fat Wreck Chords. In comparison with their previous album The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oh! Calcutta! is considerably faster-paced and more aggressive, resembling more closely their earlier albums. It also finds Chris McCaughan and Brendan Kelly sharing vocal duties in an almost duet style, while on previous albums the two had split most of the lead vocals between songs.
The album's title demonstrates the band's propensity to juxtapose the twin elements of "legitimate" literature and philosophy and American pop culture, referencing both the 1969 off-Broadway revue of the same name and a comment made by Mother Teresa that conditions in Chicago's south side depressed her more than the poverty of Calcutta. The title of the song "Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God" references the book Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, while the title "Jumping the Shark" references a pop culture term describing an episode of Happy Days. The whispered lyrics in the beginning of "Requiem Revisited" are taken from the Nomeansno song "Brother Rat." The title of "Lose Your Illusion 1" is a reference to the Guns 'n' Roses album Use Your Illusion I.
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Oh! Calcutta! is a punk rock album by the Chicago band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2006 by Fat Wreck Chords. It is the band's fifth full-length album and their third to be released on Fat Wreck Chords. In comparison with their previous album The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oh! Calcutta! is considerably faster-paced and more aggressive, resembling more closely their earlier albums. It also finds Chris McCaughan and Brendan Kelly sharing vocal duties in an almost duet style, while on previous albums the two had split most of the lead vocals between songs.
The album's title demonstrates the band's propensity to juxtapose the twin elements of "legitimate" literature and philosophy and American pop culture, referencing both the 1969 off-Broadway revue of the same name and a comment made by Mother Teresa that conditions in Chicago's south side depressed her more than the poverty of Calcutta. The title of the song "Are You There Margaret? It's Me, God" references the book Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume, while the title "Jumping the Shark" references a pop culture term describing an episode of Happy Days. The whispered lyrics in the beginning of "Requiem Revisited" are taken from the Nomeansno song "Brother Rat." The title of "Lose Your Illusion 1" is a reference to the Guns 'n' Roses album Use Your Illusion I.
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