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Adam Selzer : Storm Shadow
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Sometimes called "goth in the way that Tom Waits is a punk," this is the album the beatniks would have dug in the Victorian era.
Genre: Folk: Traditional Folk
Release Date: 2001
Storm Shadow Record Label: Adam Selzer
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Once More Before I Go 3:02 $0.99
Polly Vaughn Dreams of England 3:47 $0.99
I Thought She Was a Goth 2:49 $0.99
The Way Out of Here 3:56 $0.99
Amazing Grace (Train Song) 2:30 $0.99
Til the Novelty Wears Off 3:17 $0.99
The MTV 1:41 $0.99
Friday Avenue 4:16 $0.99
Dread 3:48 $0.99
The October Waltz 2:11 $0.99
Pushing Cheerleaders Down the Stairs 1:45 $0.99
The Radio is Haunted 4:35 $0.99
Lullaby in 12 Nursery Rhymes 4:22 $0.99
Always Keep a Diamond In Your Show 3:34 $0.99
Howl (For Mayor McCheese) (bonus track) 7:14 $0.99
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Album Notes

Adam Selzer, ably backed by his "Maritime Band," puts out the sort of album you might expect from an Anglophile folksinger obsessed with Halloween specials, beat poetry, and the month of October. As dark an album as it occasionally is, it's certainly not without the sort of humor one would expect from a (then) 21-year-old who opens his album by singing "my barn burned down back in 1935." "Pushing Cheerleaders Down the Stairs" has turned up on radio stations all over the place.

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