1-Bohemian Like You-Dandy Warhols
2-Shamemaker-Ween
3-Mercury Blues
4-Celebrity Skin-Hole
5-Castanets-
6-Knockers-The Touch
7-Wanna Rock'N'Roll
8-Love in a Trashcan
9-I Summon You
10-Love and Gasoline-Donna the Buffalo
11-Grey Day-
12-Retreat
13-Painted by Numbers
Recorded in the Bunker December of 07. Released to coincide with Bert Blyleven getting voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. There was going to be free CDs, free subsandwiches for EVERYONE. But!! Blyleven was not voted in. There was no party. There were no album sales. Mark Ewing was pissed off. Ewing had painstakingly searched hard for artists he didn't know very well. After the embarrassment of the whole marketing ploy died down, Tony and Sandy both found it listenable, which was a small victory at Tumble Recovery Records.
Rolling Stone on BE Home Blyleven: "Ewing has made a very silly record here. Ewing is the kind of industry mogul who thinks it's a good idea to have the Mormon Tabernacle Choir cover hard rock songs. Do not buy this record"
Trivia: Mark was torn on several songs: He pulled off "Snakes on a Plane" fearing it would pigeon hole the album as 'campy like his other stuff'..."Knockers" by the Touch was almost cut for the same reason, but it wasn't and became a surprise hit...also cut out was Paul Simon's "Graceland", one of Ewing's favorite songs, but it would have been too familiar with the masses. Tony really liked 'Castanets"...who would have thunk....Ewing could not get TBone Burnett to help produce the record, but his brother Sirloin Burnett was on hand and helped push all those toggle switches around. Ewing now denies that Burnett worked on the record.
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