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Bushido Karaoke

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Bushido Karaoke
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 2005
LabelSaddle Creek Records
Mayday chronology
I Know Your Troubles Been Long
(2003)
Bushido Karaoke
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Pitchfork7.5/10[2]
PopMatters8/10[3]
Tiny Mix Tapes[4]
Ox-Fanzine8/10[5]
Visions [de]6/12[6]
Mondo Sonoro[7]

Bushido Karaoke is the third full-length album by Nebraska's Mayday, full of songs of death, dismemberment, drugs, greed, and devotion. It was released on June 21, 2005.

The marketing for the album described it thus: "Like the teenage death ballads of the '50s, Mayday casts an odd sort of instrumentation and lyricism into romantic ballads of the afterlife. Percussive, choral, upbeat, morbid, scatological, rootsy-indie-wit. A bluesy country mythological storybook. Bushido Karaoke travels from the Old West ("Song of the Scaffold") to the modern one ("Hidden Leaves"), from Australia to Mesopotamia ("Old World New World"), to hell and back ("Standing in Line at the Gates of Hell") and into the caverns of history."

This album is the 76th release of Saddle Creek Records.

Track listing

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  1. "Pelf Help"
  2. "Booze & Pills"
  3. "Standing in Line at the Gates of Hell"
  4. "Continental Grift"
  5. "Old World New World"
  6. "Hidden Leaves"
  7. "Father Time"
  8. "I'm Not Afraid to Die"
  9. "Rock and Roll Can't Save Your Life"
  10. "Burned My Hands"
  11. "Dave D. Blues (How to Make it Sting Like a Career)"
  12. "Billy Boy Blues (Day of the Dead Blues)"
  13. "Exquisite Corpse"
  14. "Song of the Scaffold"

References

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  1. ^ "Bushido Karaoke - Mayday". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ Howe, Brian. "Mayday: Bushido Karaoke". Pitchfork. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Mayday: Bushido Karaoke". PopMatters. 6 July 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Music Review: Mayday - Bushido Karaoke". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Mayday Bushido Karaoke CD/LP". www.ox-fanzine.de (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Mayday: Bushido Karaoke". VISIONS.de (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Mayday Bushido Karaoke". MondoSonoro (in Spanish). 29 September 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2024.