Cocktails & Dreams

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Cocktails & Dreams
The Lawrence Arms - Cocktails & Dreams cover.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 21, 2005
RecordedMay 2000–2005
Genre Punk rock
Length1:02:17
Label Asian Man Records
The Lawrence Arms chronology
The Greatest Story Ever Told
(2003)
Cocktails & Dreams
(2005)
Oh! Calcutta!
(2006)
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Cocktails & Dreams is an album of B-Sides and rarities by the Chicago punk rock band The Lawrence Arms, released in 2005 by Asian Man Records. It collects the songs from their two Asian Man EPs, songs from several compilations and a few new songs.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Intransit" - 1:59
  2. "Quincentuple Your Money" - 3:01
  3. "100 Resolutions" - 3:31
  4. "There's No Place Like a Stranger's Floor" - 3:24
  5. "Hey, What Time Is 'Pensacola: Wings of Gold' on Anyway?" - 4:19
  6. "Presenting: The Dancing Machine (The Robot with the Monkey Head)" - 1:27
  7. "Overheated" - 4:20
  8. "Necrotism: Decanting the Insalubrious (Cyborg Midnight) Part 7" - 1:49
  9. "A Boring Story" - 3:02
  10. "Faintly Falling Ashes" - 1:20
  11. "A Toast" - 2:36
  12. "Nebraska" - 3:37
  13. "Another Boring Story" - 3:00
  14. "Joyce Carol Oates Is a Boring Old Biddy" - 3:28
  15. "The Old Timer's 2×4" - 2:19
  16. "Turnstiles" / "Old Mexico Way" / "Purple Haze" / "Heaven Help Me" - 19:05

Performers

Album information

Song information

Pseudonyms

In the liner notes and artwork Brendan and Chris identify themselves using the pseudonyms "Cocktails" and "Dreams," respectively. This echoes the use of pseudonyms they had used on their fourth album The Greatest Story Ever Told . "Cocktails and Dreams" was also the name of the bar that Tom Cruise's character dreamed of opening in the film Cocktail .