Big Notebook for Easy Piano

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Big Notebook for Easy Piano
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 3, 1997
Recorded1996
Genre Piano rock, Power pop, College rock
Label Spongebath Records [1]
Producer Ross Rice [2]
Fluid Ounces chronology
Big Notebook for Easy Piano
(1997)
In the New Old-Fashioned Way
(1999)

Big Notebook for Easy Piano is the debut album by the Murfreesboro, Tennessee, band Fluid Ounces. [3] [4] It was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Ross Rice.

Contents

Critical reception

Nashville Scene called the album "one of the year’s brightest pop records—an explosion of striking hooks and barbed wordplay, set off by a bouncy piano-based sound that veers from vaudeville to lush balladry." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Shamrock" 3:28
  2. "Tricky Fingers" 3:34
  3. "Birdbrained" 3:49
  4. "Liquorish Vampires" 3:41
  5. "Daddy Scruff" 5:42
  6. "Record Stack" 3:32
  7. "Role Call" 4:03
  8. "Spill Your Brains" 3:10
  9. "Milk Moustache" 3:27
  10. "Kept Alive by Science" 4:10
  11. "Big Empty" 4:52
  12. "Poor Man" 3:30
  13. "Killjoy" 5:03 (hidden track)

Credits

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References

  1. Gray, Michael (23 May 1997). "Piano man scales rock, pop spectrum". Nashville Banner. p. D1.
  2. 1 2 Ridley, Jim (May 29, 1997). "Music notes". Nashville Scene. Nashville Cream.
  3. "Fluid Ounces Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More". AllMusic.
  4. Flippo, Chet (Aug 9, 1997). "Murfreesboro: An emerging music mecca". Billboard. 109 (32): 1, 66.