Oh! The Grandeur

Oh! The Grandeur is Andrew Bird's second album with the Bowl of Fire. The first track, "Candy Shop", was recorded as a demo track for the then-upcoming Tim Robbins film, Cradle Will Rock (though the song did not appear in the film). Another track of note on this album is "Tea & Thorazine," which was inspired by Bird's autistic brother's experience with mental institutions. The song mentions a "Dr. B" and Bird identifies him in the album liner notes as Bruno Bettelheim, an early autism researcher.

Oh! The Grandeur
Studio album by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire
Released	August 24, 1999
Genre	Indie rock, swing music
Length	54:39
Label	Rykodisc
Producer	Andrew Bird, Mike Napolitano
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire chronology
Thrills (1998) Oh! The Grandeur (1999) The Swimming Hour (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The US release uses HDCD encoding, but the package is not labeled as HDCD.[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Andrew Bird, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Candy Shop"		3:42
2.	"Tea & Thorazine"		4:16
3.	"Wishing for Contentment"		3:11
4.	"Wait"	Lyrics adapted from the poem Wait by Galway Kinnell	4:47
5.	"The Idiot's Genius"		2:33
6.	"Vidalia"		2:50
7.	"Beware"		4:21
8.	"Dora Goes to Town"		3:03
9.	"Feetlips"		3:05
10.	"And So..."		1:24
11.	"Coney Island Shuffle"		5:00
12.	"Respiration"		2:10
13.	"(What's Your) Angle?"		3:28
14.	"The Confession"		5:04
15.	"Beware (Reprise)" (+ Bonus track: "A Drinking Song In the Grande Style")		5:45

Other appearances

• A live version of "Tea & Thorazine" appears on Fingerlings 2 as "T'n't".
• The lyrics from "The Confession" are also used for the song "The Privateers" on the album Noble Beast.

References

1. Phares, Heather. Oh! The Grandeur at AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2012.
2. "List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs". Hydrogenaudio. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

External links

• Album information page on artist's official web site (select cover)