Cocktails & Dreams

Track listing

1. "Intransit" - 1:59
2. "Quincentuple Your Money" - 3:01
3. "100 Resolutions" - 3:31
4. "There's No Place Like a Stranger's Floor" - 3:24
5. "Hey, What Time Is 'Pensacola: Wings of Gold' on Anyway?" - 4:19
6. "Presenting: The Dancing Machine " - 1:27
7. "Overheated" - 4:20
8. "Necrotism: Decanting the Insalubrious Part 7" - 1:49
9. "A Boring Story" - 3:02
10. "Faintly Falling Ashes" - 1:20
11. "A Toast" - 2:36
12. "Nebraska" - 3:37
13. "Another Boring Story" - 3:00
14. "Joyce Carol Oates Is a Boring Old Biddy" - 3:28
15. "The Old Timer's 2×4" - 2:19
16. "Turnstiles" / "Old Mexico Way" / "Purple Haze" / "Heaven Help Me" - 19:05

Performers

• Chris McCaughan - guitar, vocals
• Brendan Kelly - bass, vocals
• Neil Kevin Hennessy - drums

Album information

• Record label: Asian Man Records
• Tracks 1, 15 & 16 recorded at Atlas Studios in early 2005 by Matt Allison
• Tracks 2–5 recorded at Atlas Studios in January 2001 by Matt Allison
• Track 7 recorded at Atlas Studios in October 2001 by Matt Allison
• Track 8 recorded at Atlas Studios in December 2003 by Matt Allison
• Tracks 9–13 recorded at Atlas Studios in May 2000 by Matt Allison
• Track 14 recorded in September 2002 in a Chicago oil factory by Chris Carr and Lance Reynolds
• "Old Mexico Way" recorded by Mike Giampa
• "Purple Haze" and "Heaven Help Me" recorded by the Lawrence Arms on home recording devices
• Layout by David Holtz
• Photos by the Lawrence Arms, Ben Pier and others

Song information

• Tracks 2–5 originally appeared on the EP Present Day Memories, a split CD/EP with The Chinkees released in 2001 by Asian Man Records.
• Track 6 originally appeared on the compilation Fat Music, Vol. 6: Uncontrollable Fatulence, released in 2002 by Fat Wreck Chords. It was originally titled "Presenting: The Dancing Machine."
• Track 7 is an outtake from the recording sessions for the band's third album Apathy and Exhaustion.
• Track 8 originally appeared on the compilation Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2, released in 2004 by Fat Wreck Chords. Its title "Necrotism: Decanting the Insalubrious Part 7" is a direct reference to the band Carcass's third album Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious.
• Tracks 9–13 originally appeared on the Shady View Terrace / The Lawrence Arms split EP, which was originally released on vinyl EP by Castaway Records and re-released in 2000 on CD by Asian Man Records. Track 10, "Faintly Falling Ashes", is a re-recording of an earlier demo, which was then titled "Purple Haze" and is included in this album's final track.
• Track 14 originally appeared on the compilation Oil: Chicago Punk Refined, released in 2002 by Thick Records. It was originally titled "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a name which is shared with a story by Joyce Carol Oates. In the liner notes Chris notes that the song was re-titled because "1) There's nothing more lame than to be asked if you've ripped off, or even worse, were paying homage to Joyce Carol Oates. 2) It's a stupid title that basically means nothing." It is one of the few songs the band has never played live.
• Tracks 15 & 16 are re-recordings of songs that originally appeared on the band's second album Ghost Stories.
• The final track is followed by the same hidden tracks that appeared on the album Ghost Stories, but in a different order. "Purple Haze" was later rerecorded as "Faintly Falling Ashes".

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