The Glass Passenger tracks, album, songs, music, reviews and overview

The Glass Passenger Track Listing

TRACKS

All track titles are subject to change; track information comes from the January 2008 issue of Alternative Press and the Absolute Punk interview with Andrew McMahon.

What Gets You Off
"McMahon quavers like Conor Oberst fronting the mid-tempo, rickety shambling of the Good Life" (Alternative Press)
Miss California
"...starts with a jolting, almost new-wave, power-pop guitar riff" (Alternative Press)
Untitled (previously Doris Day)
"...begins with bright, jaunty piano melodies" (Alternative Press)
"...was originally called 'Doris Day' but I rewrote the chorus so it's not actually called 'Doris Day' anymore" (Absolute Punk)
Crashin'/Crash
"...resembles the rollicking indie rock crafted by Nada Surf - was inspired by the crippling writer's block McMahon faced as he figured out logistics for this album" (Alternative Press)
"I was like 'Ok, maybe you'll figure this out.' It was a song about trying to find my voice again and trying to find how to talk about these things that are a little more complicated. That song helped me to break the ice a little and it kind of spawned a lot of the sessions that followed" (Absolute Punk)
Cellular Phone/Cellphone/Cell Phone
"He rewrote an older song called 'Cellphone' and added the line: 'I'm not alone in a word full of vampires,' a reference to the nurses who came to take his blood" (Alternative Press)
"...has been around for a while- that track was recorded in the Everything In Transit sessions at the very end" (Absolute Punk)
Caves
"Each verse of a simple, pretty minuet-like song called "Caves", perhaps the most classical-sounding thing he's ever written came from a different stay in the hospital" (Alternative Press)
"...is the long, symphony thing that's on this record, it's a seven-minute three-movement piece of music, and that was the song where I woke up and it was in the middle of the night and I heard this piano melody in my head and I went to my piano and started writing it. It was kind of the first time that the words, as they related to what I had gone through, started emerging. That was... [plays piano]. It's like, I played that and it kind of got scared because the first thing that came out was [more piano]. It was real operatic and, you know, it really got high and did a lot of things that I had never really done when I was writing a song before. That kind of just helped me break through and write honestly about what that was like, and that kind of just got it out of the way for me, I didn't feel like I needed to focus on the past as much, since I had finally written the song that had blocked me up a lot. It was hard, I didn't really want to write sad songs about being a sick dude. I just don't think that's what I'm here to do. Writing one that was sort of this big symphony and got it out of the way for me, it really helped and it opened me up to writing on other subjects and more complicated subjects and I think I got through one of the more complicated ones in one song, so that helped for sure" (Absolute Punk)
Bloodshot
"...that's much more of a character study of other characters other than myself but I mean, that I possibly relate to." (Absolute Punk)

The Glass Passenger tracks, albums, discography, music and songs.