Bird Dog (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Bird Dog
Type = Album
Artist = The Verlaines

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Released = 1987
Recorded = Aug 1986-Mar 1987
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Length =
Label = Flying Nun Records/Homestead Records
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:oke67uy070jh link]
Last album = "Hallelujah All The Way Home"
(1985)
This album = "Bird Dog"
(1987)
Next album = "Juvenilia"
(1987)

"Bird Dog" is an album released in 1987 by The Verlaines. The album is often considered to be The Verlaines best, most introspective piece of work, with songs such as "Slow Sad Love Song", "Bird Dog" and "C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me" all appearing on "You're just to obscure for me", the group's only compilation to span their entire career. "Slow Sad Love Song" was the first song Graeme Downes ever wrote, in 1980, inspired by the suicide of a friend.

Track listing

# "Makes No Difference"
# "You Forget Love"
# "Take Good Care of It"
# "Just Mum"
# "Slow Sad Love Song"
# "Only Dream Left"
# "Dippy's Last Trip"
# "Bird Dog"
# "Icarus Missed"
# "C.D., Jimmy, Jazz and Me"

References

* http://www.grimalco.com/verlaines/bio.htm
* http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/dunedin/downes.asp