Length 50:06 Release date 11 April 2000 | Producer Brad Jones | |
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Released April 11, 2000 (2000-04-11) People also search for The Known Universe, Lohio, Electric Rock Music, The Okra Years, Mr. Superlove, Grim | ||
Some Stupid With a Flare Gun is the fifth studio album by Cincinnati-based indie rock band Ass Ponys. It was released on April 11, 2000 on the Chicago-based indie label Checkered Past, and marks their first release on this label after releasing their two previous albums on A&M Records. The album's title is taken from a line in the Deep Purple song Smoke on the Water. The album won "CD of the Year" in 2001 at the Cammy Awards.
Contents
Production
Some Stupid With a Flare Gun was produced by Brad Jones.
Critical reception
The album received mainly positive reviews from critics, one of whom (Robert Christgau), after giving the album an A-, later ranked it #40 on his 2000 end-of-the-year Dean's List for the Pazz & Jop. Another favorable review was written by Fred Mills, who wrote that Chuck Cleaver, the band's lead singer and songwriter, "gives equal weight to life’s little joys and disappointments, employing nuance and economy to great effect."
Track listing
- Pretty As You Please
- Astronaut
- Fighter Pilot
- Love Tractor
- Your Amazing Life
- Sidewinder
- Swallow You Down
- X-tra Nipple
- Magnus
- Casper's Coming Home
- Kitten
- Between The Trees
Personnel
Songs
1Pretty as You Please4:30
2Astronaut4:23
3Fighter Pilot3:12