Bushido Karaoke is the third full-length album by Nebraska's Mayday

Mayday (American band)

Mayday is a band from Omaha, Nebraska, on the Saddle Creek Records label, led by Ted Stevens, also of Cursive and Lullaby for the Working Class.-Band members:*Ted Stevens*Tiffany Kowalski*Daniel J...

, 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 '50's, 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

Saddle Creek Records

Saddle Creek Records is an American record label based in Omaha, Nebraska. Started as a college class project on entrepreneurship, the label was founded by Conor Oberst and Justin Oberst in 1993 . Conor soon turned over his role in the company to Robb Nansel...

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Track listing

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"

External links

• Saddle Creek Records