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The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events

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Released
  
October 9, 2006

Artist
  
The Gothic Archies

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Length
  
41:18

Release date
  
9 October 2006

Genre
  
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Recorded
  
2000–2006 at Mother West and Polar West, New York City

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The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events is the second studio album by indie pop band The Gothic Archies. It is a concept album whose songs are loosely based on the thirteen books of Daniel Handler's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and were originally included at the end of the audiobook editions of each novel.

Contents

The music, like the writing in the books themselves, is morose for comic effect. Some of the songs' lyrics have something to do with the story itself and are often implicitly written in the voice of one of the corresponding book's characters; for example, "When You Play the Violin" is apparently in the voice of one of the book's five orphans, most likely Klaus, while "Dreary, Dreary" appears to be an ode to Beatrice, Lemony Snicket's ill-fated love interest. Others' connections seem to be in name only; for example, "Shipwrecked", The End's song, is about a man who decapitates his ship's crew in an attempt to be shipwrecked on an island with his true love, only to discover that there is no island anywhere nearby.

The album has 13 tracks, each one corresponding to the respective book of the series, plus two bonus tracks: "Walking My Gargoyle" (the theme originally intended to be from The Carnivorous Carnival) and "We Are the Gothic Archies".

Track listing

All tracks written by Stephin Merritt.

Personnel

The Gothic Archies
  • Stephin Merritt
  • Additional personnel
  • Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler)accordion
  • John Woo – electric sitar
  • Songs

    1Scream and Run Away (from “The Bad Beginning”)2:24
    2In the Reptile Room (from “The Reptile Room”)2:14
    3The World Is a Very Scary Place (from “The Wide Window”)2:25

    References

    The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events Wikipedia


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