Pot Boiler

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Pot Boiler
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Studio album by
Released2007
Label Flying Nun Records
The Verlaines chronology
You're Just Too Obscure for Me
(2003)
Pot Boiler
(2007)
Corporate Moronic
(2009)

Pot Boiler is a 2007 album by The Verlaines on Flying Nun Records.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Graeme Downes except "Sunday in Sevastopol", music by Graeme Downes, lyrics by David Kominsky.

  1. "Midlife Crisis" – 3:19
  2. "Stop Messing Around" – 2:58
  3. "It's Easier to Harden a Broken Heart (than mend it)" – 4:56
  4. "Don't Leave" – 3:16
  5. "Forgive Thine Enemies (but don't forget their names)" – 3:03
  6. "Tragic Boy" – 4:15
  7. "Sunday in Sevastopol" – 5:11
  8. "All Messed Up" – 3:29
  9. "16 Years" – 3:01
  10. "If You Can't Beat Them" – 4:10
  11. "Real Good Life" – 4:00

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