The Party's Over (Smoking Popes album)

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The Party's Over
Double Zero Records
ProducerPhil Bonnet
Smoking Popes chronology
Destination Failure
(1997)
The Party's Over
(2003)
Stay Down
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Chicago Sun-Times[2]
Punknews.org[3]

The Party's Over is an album by

Double Zero Records.[1]

Critical reception

The album received a lukewarm review from Tim DiGravina of

Daily Herald wrote that "on this vaulted swan song of covers, the band exposes Judy Garland and Patsy Cline as the true predecessors to emo heartbreakers like Dashboard Confessional."[7]

Track listing

  1. Seven Lonely Days – 2:57 (Marshall Brown/Alden Shuman/Earl Shuman)
  2. Valentine – 2:32 (Willie Nelson)
  3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – 3:29 (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
  4. Julie Styne
    )
  5. Farther Along – 3:36 (W.B. Stevens)
  6. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart – 2:53 (James F. Hanley)
  7. Stormy Weather – 4:38 (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
  8. Wake Up Crying – 3:04 (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)
  9. You'll Never Walk Alone – 2:45 (Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers
    )
  10. Why Me – 2:50 (Kris Kristofferson)

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Party's Over - Smoking Popes | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ "SPIN CONTROL". Chicago Sun-Times: 12. March 30, 2003.
  3. ^ "Smoking Popes - The Party's Over". www.punknews.org. 28 March 2003.
  4. ^ "Smoking Popes | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ^ DeRogatis, Jim (Nov 2, 2005). "Smoking Popes' reunion show may relight a fire". Chicago Sun-Times: 65.
  6. ^ "The Smoking Popes: The Party's Over". PopMatters. April 23, 2003.
  7. ^ Guarino, Mark (Mar 25, 2003). "Chicago's Smoking Popes return". The Daily Herald: 12.