Dan Bryk, Asshole
by Dan Bryk
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Digital Album
Streaming + DownloadIncludes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
Includes a bonus track and PDFs of original artwork including ad and poster. Sorry, but the digital version has one fewer song than the CD and 8-track; time and better judgement has removed that regrettable song from my oeuvre.Purchasable with gift card -
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumOriginal No! Discs jewel box package with 10 page lyrics and artwork insert. The physical CD (not the download) adds the 3-song Dan Bryk, Now! EP
Includes unlimited streaming of Dan Bryk, Asshole via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 days$3 USD or more
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Cassette + Digital AlbumFinal remaining copies of original stock cassettes "for the collectors." No! Discs red cassettes with gold ink, side "tomatoes" and "sour cream", with colour litho 10-panel J-card in a clear shrink-wrapped case.
Includes unlimited streaming of Dan Bryk, Asshole via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 days3 remaining$10 USD or more
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8-Track Cartridge Huit-Piste
Cassette + Digital Album[sorry these are sold out!]
Original No! Discs 8-track tape. Digitally mastered to virgin new old stock blank tape, NOT reused tapes. Comes in original manufacturer-branded cardboard sleeve with original label artwork. Includes Dan Bryk, Now!
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Because I'm Spoiled
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Her Place
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Singer Slash Songwriter
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Plastic Surgery
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Song of Forgiveness
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Private Party
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about
"Few of these confessional songs are over two minutes long but Bryk's got a knack for merrie melodies and tragicomic songwriting, and "She Doesn't Mean A Thing To Me Tonight" and "The Trouble With Nice Guys" are wondrous. A tape to warm the cockles of your heart." -Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly
"Mixes all Bryk's traditional self-obsession, psychoanalysis and sexual frustration with infectious melodies, musical experimentation, subtle wit amd just enough awkwardness to make me suspect that his next release may very well bring him to much wider commercial attention." -ID
"Bryk's forte is his Iyrics-as funny and smart as they are clever, and they can be wickedly clever in their wordplay and wry reworkings of romantic platitudes. If his humour and pointed observations and ruminations about romantic misadventures are this biting while he's in his early 20s, it'll be fun to hear how acerbic and crotchety he gets in about 20 years when he's writing about his mid-life crisis." -Exclaim
"Like a mewling, sociopathic Billy Joel and his warped take on Piano Guy sincerity, a blunt hammer in his heart and everything else looking like a nail. Eureka! Fuck niceties! In this world, you are either the hammer or the anvil, and I'm gonna be the meanest motherfucking Black & Decker mallet east of the Pecos! I'm gonna study with the master-craftsman! Dan Bryk." -Chris O' Connor, Eye Weekly
"Glib alt.folkie..." -Toronto Sun
"Mixes all Bryk's traditional self-obsession, psychoanalysis and sexual frustration with infectious melodies, musical experimentation, subtle wit amd just enough awkwardness to make me suspect that his next release may very well bring him to much wider commercial attention." -ID
"Bryk's forte is his Iyrics-as funny and smart as they are clever, and they can be wickedly clever in their wordplay and wry reworkings of romantic platitudes. If his humour and pointed observations and ruminations about romantic misadventures are this biting while he's in his early 20s, it'll be fun to hear how acerbic and crotchety he gets in about 20 years when he's writing about his mid-life crisis." -Exclaim
"Like a mewling, sociopathic Billy Joel and his warped take on Piano Guy sincerity, a blunt hammer in his heart and everything else looking like a nail. Eureka! Fuck niceties! In this world, you are either the hammer or the anvil, and I'm gonna be the meanest motherfucking Black & Decker mallet east of the Pecos! I'm gonna study with the master-craftsman! Dan Bryk." -Chris O' Connor, Eye Weekly
"Glib alt.folkie..." -Toronto Sun
credits
released September 1, 1995
played and sung by dan bryk except
mitch girio bass on private party
kurt swinghammer guitar on plastic surgery
christopher warren guitar on she doesn’t
jim english assorted acoustic guitars
david baitz violin on forgiven
ira zingraff horns of dilemma
e. mcginn unwittingly quotes beck
recorded piecemeal 1993-1995 at the pope john paul II cultural centre; power prop’s rehearsal shed; everist bros.’ tomato ripening room; kurt swinghammer’s and david baitz’s home studios (thanks guys)
mix, “data recovery”, crucifixion of power ballads, and additional recording by jim english at actual music (three locations)
live recording at my treehouse, sunday november 13, 1994 by jono grant
mastered by andy krehm and chris perry at silverbirch productions
played and sung by dan bryk except
mitch girio bass on private party
kurt swinghammer guitar on plastic surgery
christopher warren guitar on she doesn’t
jim english assorted acoustic guitars
david baitz violin on forgiven
ira zingraff horns of dilemma
e. mcginn unwittingly quotes beck
recorded piecemeal 1993-1995 at the pope john paul II cultural centre; power prop’s rehearsal shed; everist bros.’ tomato ripening room; kurt swinghammer’s and david baitz’s home studios (thanks guys)
mix, “data recovery”, crucifixion of power ballads, and additional recording by jim english at actual music (three locations)
live recording at my treehouse, sunday november 13, 1994 by jono grant
mastered by andy krehm and chris perry at silverbirch productions
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about
Dan Bryk Durham, North Carolina
That guy who wrote “Chunky Girl” and “Discount Store.”
Finally dropping new songs almost as good as those
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