Bitter Tea
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| Studio album by The Fiery Furnaces | ||
| Released | April 18, 2006 | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | indie rock | |
| Length | 72:23 | |
| Label | Fat Possum | |
| Producer(s) | Matthew Friedberger | |
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| The Fiery Furnaces chronology | ||
| Rehearsing My Choir (2005) |
Bitter Tea (2006) |
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Bitter Tea is the fifth full-length album by The Fiery Furnaces, released on April 18th, 2006 via Fat Possum in the U.S and Rough Trade in the UK. It leaked onto the internet on February 22nd. The band immediately started selling the CD during their tour.
[edit] Track listing
- "In My Little Thatched Hut" – 4:13
- "I'm in No Mood" – 3:39
- "Black-Hearted Boy" – 5:11
- "Bitter Tea" – 5:45
- "Teach Me Sweetheart" – 5:56
- "Waiting to Know You" – 4:01
- "The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry" – 5:44
- "Oh Sweet Woods" – 5:25
- "Borneo" – 4:17
- "Police Sweater Blood Vow" – 2:53
- "Nevers" – 5:02
- "Benton Harbor Blues" – 7:23
- "Whistle Rhapsody" – 4:20
- "Nevers (Remix)" (unlisted) – 5:14
- "Benton Harbor Blues (Remix)" (unlisted) – 3:13
[edit] Backmasking
The album contains various Backmasking throughout. The tracklist below summarizes what the lyrics are when played backwards in each song. Words in "quotes" are the lyrics, and numbers in (parentheses) are where in the song the vocals occur. Some of these are simply other parts of the song played backwards, while others are solely found in reverse, ie; Track 8: Oh Sweet Woods.
- In My Little Thatched Hut= “Tears Of Joy” sung over and over. (~3:00)
- I'm in No Mood= “And the pin in my hair was stuck in my head. I didn’t undress for bed. I was so drunk last night.” (2:10)
- Black-Hearted Boy= “See the smoke from your kiln pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog as I stand cold with my back broke by the bog. Find your cross cut saw- come blunt and jagged dry and try cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high. I tipped my toe on the bamboo strip; I took stone honey in exchange for my rags. Don't dare paint your board moonlight white-” (2:56-3:56)
- Bitter Tea=none
- Teach Me Sweetheart=none
- Waiting To Know You=none
- The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry=[whole song from end to start] “I thought myself an unworthy thing, despairing of my case all the time boys. I thought myself an unworthy thing, despairing of my case all the time boys. Damn it all, damn it all to hell. Damn it all, damn it all.” (Much of the backwards vocals sound backwards when played forward! Meaning that they are probably not anything, but it is possible they are clever speed changes making it hard to decode. Probably not.)
- Oh Sweet Woods= “Oh sweet woods of delight, Oh solitariness. Fairwell direction, fairwell all affection” (0:44 and 3:01)
- Borneo=none
- Police Sweater Blood Vow=none
- Nevers= Most of the lyrics are backwards, and it's almost like they are alternating forward and backwards vocals saying; theres a town I know called Nevers, no nevers etc…, like #7. The lyrics are online.
- Benton Harbor Blues= Around (3:45), there are some brilliant jibberish phrases played forward and backward over each other, causing it to sound the exact same when played backwards. (no real words though. Sounds slightly like the next lyric, “But when I think back” but isn’t.
- Whistle Rhapsody=none
- Nevers Again=none
- Benton Harbor Blues Again=none
[edit] Additional information
With this album's release, The Fiery Furnaces will have released five records (including their 41-minute EP) since September 2003. On top of that, Matthew Friedberger released two solo LPs, packaged together, in the summer of 2006.
