Goodbye Blue Monday (album)

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Goodbye Blue Monday
Jeremy Fisher - Goodbye Blue Monday.JPG
Studio album by
Released Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg March 11, 2007
Flag of the United States.svg August 28, 2007
RecordedSignal Path Studios, Almonte, ON
Genre Folk pop
Length43:30
Label Aquarius [1]
Wind-up [2]
Producer Hawksley Workman
Jeremy Fisher chronology
Let It Shine
(2004)
Goodbye Blue Monday
(2007)
Flood
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Goodbye Blue Monday is the third album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Jeremy Fisher. [2] [4] [5] It was released on March 11, 2007, by Aquarius Records in Canada and on August 28, 2007, in the United States.

Contents

The album title is the alternative name for Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions .

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that "Fisher does have a pleasingly warm voice and a flair for melody, while the instrumentation and production work is solid." [1] No Depression called Fisher "a better derivative than most, with a lucent voice and an almost too-easy facility with melody." [4] The Washington Post wrote that the album "brim[s] with his jaunty, literate acoustic pop-folk." [6]

Track listing

All songs were written by Jeremy Fisher, except where noted.

  1. "Scar that Never Heals" – 3:38
  2. "Jolene" – 3:08
  3. "Cigarette" (Fisher, Jay Joyce) – 3:04
  4. "American Girls" – 3:38
  5. "Goodbye Blue Monday" – 4:37
  6. "Lay Down (Ballad of Rigoberto Alpizar)" – 4:05
  7. "High School" – 3:48 / "Remind Me" on Canadian version — 3:33
  8. "Sula" – 4:05
  9. "16MM Dream" – 4:17
  10. "Left Behind" – 3:26
  11. "Fall for Anything" – 5:54

Personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Jeremy Fisher: Goodbye Blue Monday". PopMatters. September 16, 2007.
  3. "Goodbye Blue Monday - Jeremy Fisher | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  4. 1 2 "Jeremy Fisher – Goodbye Blue Monday – No Depression". www.nodepression.com.
  5. "Jeremy Fisher | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. "Smokin' Folkie: Jeremy Fisher" via www.washingtonpost.com.