Charm School (Bishop Allen album)

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Charm School
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Studio album by Bishop Allen
Released May 6, 2003
Genre Indie rock
Length38:53
Label Champagne School
Producer Justin Rice, Christian Rudder
Bishop Allen chronology
Charm School
(2003)
The Broken String
(2007)
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Charm School is the first album by the indie rock group Bishop Allen released in 2003.

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

Bishop Allen band

Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band's core members are Justin Rice and Christian Rudder, who are supported both on stage and in the studio by a rotating cast of musical collaborators. The band was formed in 2003 and grew out of Rice and Rudder's friendship; it takes its name from Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the two lived together after attending Harvard University.

Track listing

  1. "Charm School" – 2:08
  2. "Little Black Ache" – 2:47
  3. "Busted Heart" – 3:54
  4. "Bishop Allen Drive" – 2:56
  5. "Eve of Destruction" – 3:36
  6. "Things Are What You Make of Them" – 3:57
  7. "Ghosts Are Good Company" – 3:01
  8. "Empire City" – 2:42
  9. "Coupla Easy Things" – 2:22
  10. "Penitentiary Bound" – 1:57
  11. "Quarter to Three" – 3:21
  12. "Another Wasted Night" – 2:32
  13. "Things Are What You Make of Them (Reprise)" – 3:36

The track "Eve of Destruction" is partly based on P. F. Sloan's well-known song of the same name.

P. F. Sloan American singer-songwriter

P. F. "Flip" Sloan was an American pop-rock singer and songwriter. He was very successful during the mid-1960s, writing, performing, and producing Billboard top 20 hits for artists such as Barry McGuire, The Searchers, Jan and Dean, Herman's Hermits, Johnny Rivers, The Grass Roots, The Turtles and The Mamas & the Papas. Many of his songs were written in collaboration with Steve Barri. His most successful songs as a writer were three top ten hits. Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction", Johnny Rivers' 1966 "Secret Agent Man" and Herman's Hermits' 1966 "A Must to Avoid".

Eve of Destruction (song) single

"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964. Several artists have recorded it, but the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire. This recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965, and released by Dunhill Records. The accompanying musicians were top-tier Los Angeles session players: P. F. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass guitar. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a disc jockey, who began playing it. The song was an instant hit and as a result the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded.

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