Oh! The Grandeur

Oh! The Grandeur

Studio album by

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

Released

August 24, 1999

Genre

Indie rock, swing music

Length

54:39

Label

Rykodisc

Producer

Andrew Bird, Mike Napolitano

Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire chronology

Thrills
(1998)

Oh! The Grandeur
(1999)

The Swimming Hour
(2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Oh! The Grandeur is Andrew Bird's second album with the Bowl of Fire. The first track, "Candy Shop", was recorded as a demo track for the then-upcoming Tim Robbins film, Cradle Will Rock (though the song did not appear in the film). Another track of note on this album is "Tea & Thorazine," which was inspired by Bird's autistic brother's experience with mental institutions. The song mentions a "Dr. B" and Bird identifies him in the album liner notes as Bruno Bettelheim, an early autism researcher.

The US release uses HDCD encoding, but the package is not labeled as HDCD.^[2]

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Andrew Bird, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Candy Shop"		3:42
2.	"Tea & Thorazine"		4:16
3.	"Wishing for Contentment"		3:11
4.	"Wait"	Lyrics adapted from the poem Wait by Galway Kinnell	4:47
5.	"The Idiot's Genius"		2:33
6.	"Vidalia"		2:50
7.	"Beware"		4:21
8.	"Dora Goes to Town"		3:03
9.	"Feetlips"		3:05
10.	"And So..."		1:24
11.	"Coney Island Shuffle"		5:00
12.	"Respiration"		2:10
13.	"(What's Your) Angle?"		3:28
14.	"The Confession"		5:04
15.	"Beware (Reprise)" (+ Bonus track: "A Drinking Song In the Grande Style")		5:45

Other appearances

A live version of "Tea & Thorazine" appears on Fingerlings 2 as "T'n't".
"The Confession" was later reworked into the song "The Privateers" on the album Noble Beast.

References

^ Phares, Heather. Oh! The Grandeur at AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
^ "List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs". Hydrogenaudio. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

External links

Album information page on artist's official web site (select cover)

v t e Andrew Bird
Solo albums	Music of Hair (1996) Weather Systems (2003) Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005) Armchair Apocrypha (2007) Noble Beast (2009) Break It Yourself (2012) Hands of Glory (2012) Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… (2014) Echolocations: Canyon (2015) Are You Serious (2016) Echolocations: River (2017) My Finest Work Yet (2019) Hark! (2020) Inside Problems (2022)
Bowl of Fire albums	Thrills (1998) Oh! The Grandeur (1999) The Swimming Hour (2001)
Live albums	Fingerlings (2002) Fingerlings 2 (2004) Fingerlings 3 (2006) Fingerlings 4 (2010)
EPs	The Ballad of the Red Shoes (2002) Soldier On (2007) Fitz and the Dizzy Spells (2009) I Want to See Pulaski at Night (2013)
Collaborative albums	These 13 (2021)
Related bands	The Handsome Family Squirrel Nut Zippers
See also	Martin Dosh Tift Merritt Jeremy Ylvisaker

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