The Gay Parade Explained

The Gay Parade
Type:	Album
Artist:	of Montreal
Cover:	The Gay Parade.jpg
Released:	February 16, 1999
Recorded:	September 1997October 1998
Genre:	Indie pop, baroque pop, psychedelic pop
Length:	44:35
Label:	Bar/None
Producer:	Kevin Barnes
Prev Year:	1998
Next Year:	2000

The Gay Parade is a 1999 concept album by the band of Montreal and was their third full-length release. Allmusic's reviewer Jason Ankeny designated the album "indie pop's very own Sgt. Pepper".^[1] Of Montreal's drummer and bassist Derek Almstead contemporaneously described it as a collection of character studies, comparable to the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.^[2]

It has the first album cover designed by lead vocalist Kevin Barnes' brother David, who has since designed the artwork for nearly every subsequent of Montreal album.

Track listing

All songs by Kevin Barnes.

1. "Old Familiar Way"2:25
2. "Fun Loving Nun"2:17
3. "Tulip Baroo"2:10
4. "Jacques Lamure"2:31
5. "The March of the Gay Parade"2:55
6. "Neat Little Domestic Life"2:45
7. "A Collection of Poems About Water"3:57
8. "Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst/I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon"2:40
9. "The Autobiographical Grandpa"2:19
10. "The Miniature Philosopher"1:54
11. "My Friend Will Be Me"3:54
12. "My Favorite Boxer"3:01
13. "Advice from a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage"2:08
14. "A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off a Cliff into the Ocean"3:04
15. "Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree"5:21
16. "The Gay Parade Outro"0:47

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r397591|pure_url=yes}} Review]. Alkeny. Jason. Allmusic. 30 June 2010.
2. Roberts . Randall . Life's Rich Pageant . . 12 . February 1999.