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Night of the Shooting Stars

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Released
  
2001

Artist
  
Rheostatics

Label
  
Perimeter Records

Night of the Shooting Stars (2001)
  
2067 (2004)

Release date
  
2001

Genre
  
Indie rock

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Nominations
  
Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year

Similar
  
Rheostatics albums, Indie rock albums

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Night of the Shooting Stars is a 2001 album by Canadian rock band Rheostatics, released on Perimeter Records.

Contents

It is the band's first traditional studio album since 1996's The Blue Hysteria. It is also Don Kerr's final album with the band.

Two songs on the album are new versions of songs that appeared on earlier albums. "Song of the Garden" first appeared on 1999's The Story of Harmelodia, and "The Junction Foil Ball" appeared on 1998's The Nightlines Sessions.

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Track listing

As with most of the band's albums, songwriting credit goes to varying combinations of the band members: Martin Tielli, Dave Bidini and Tim Vesely. (Kerr does not receive songwriting credits.) Credit for each song is listed below.

  1. "These Days Are Good for the Canadian Conservative Youth Party Alliance" (Martin Tielli) – 5:44
  2. "Song of the Garden" (Dave Merritt, Mike Bonnell) – 3:28
  3. "Mumbletypeg" (Dave Bidini) – 3:50
  4. "P.I.N." (Tielli) – 3:38
  5. "Superdifficult" (Tim Vesely) – 2:36
  6. "The Junction Foil Ball" (Tielli) – 4:51
  7. "We Went West" (Vesely) – 5:12
  8. "The Fire" (Bidini, Tielli) – 5:37
  9. "In It Now" (Vesely) – 2:08
  10. "Here to There to You" (Bidini) – 3:25
  11. "The Reward" (Tielli) – 4:21
  12. "Remain Calm" (Vesely) – 3:56
  13. "Satan is the Whistler" (Tielli) – 6:05

Songs

1These Days Are Good For the Canadian Conservative Youth Party Alliance5:44
2Song of the Garden3:28
3Mumbletypeg3:51

References

Night of the Shooting Stars Wikipedia