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The Gay Parade
Studio album by of Montreal
Released	February 16, 1999
Recorded	September 1997 – October 1998
Genre	Indie pop, baroque pop, psychedelic pop
Length	44:35
Label	Bar/None
Producer	Kevin Barnes
Of Montreal chronology
The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy (1998) ''The Gay Parade'' (1999) Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
PopMatters	(very favorable) link
Sputnikmusic	(4.5/5) link
Ultimate-Guitar	(10/10) link

The Gay Parade is a 1999 concept album by the band of Montreal and was their third full-length release. Allmusic's reviewer Jason Ankeny designated the album "indie pop's very own Sgt. Pepper". Of Montreal's drummer and bassist Derek Almstead contemporaneously described it as a collection of character studies, comparable to the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.

It has the first album cover designed by lead vocalist Kevin Barnes' brother David, who has since designed the artwork for nearly every subsequent of Montreal album.

Track listing

All songs by Kevin Barnes.

1. "Old Familiar Way" – 2:25
2. "Fun Loving Nun" – 2:17
3. "Tulip Baroo" – 2:10
4. "Jacques Lamure" – 2:31
5. "The March of the Gay Parade" – 2:55
6. "Neat Little Domestic Life" – 2:45
7. "A Collection of Poems About Water" – 3:57
8. "Y the Quale and Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst/I'd Be a Yellow Feathered Loon" – 2:40
9. "The Autobiographical Grandpa" – 2:19
10. "The Miniature Philosopher" – 1:54
11. "My Friend Will Be Me" – 3:54
12. "My Favorite Boxer" – 3:01
13. "Advice from a Divorced Gentleman to His Bachelor Friend Considering Marriage" – 2:08
14. "A Man's Life Flashing Before His Eyes While He and His Wife Drive Off a Cliff into the Ocean" – 3:04
15. "Nickee Coco and the Invisible Tree" – 5:21
16. "The Gay Parade Outro" – 0:47

References

1. Alkeny, Jason. "Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
2. Roberts, Randall (February 1999). "Life's Rich Pageant". CMJ New Music Monthly. p. 12.

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Full-length albums	Cherry Peel The Bedside Drama: A Petite Tragedy The Gay Parade Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse Aldhils Arboretum Satanic Panic in the Attic The Sunlandic Twins Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Skeletal Lamping False Priest Paralytic Stalks Lousy with Sylvianbriar Aureate Gloom Innocence Reaches White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood Ur Fun Freewave Lucifer Fck Fck Fck Lady on the Cusp
EPs	The Bird Who Ate the Rabbit's Flower The Bird Who Continues to Eat the Rabbit's Flower Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline Responses Icons, Abstract Thee thecontrollersphere Rune Husk
Compilations	Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album The Early Four Track Recordings An Introduction to Of Montreal If He Is Protecting Our Nation, Then Who Will Protect Big Oil, Our Children? The Gladiator Nightstick Collection Satanic Twins Daughter of Cloud
Related articles	Discography The Elephant 6 Recording Company Music of Athens, Georgia A Pollinaire Rave Polyvinyl Records Kindercore Records Bar/None Records Kishi Bashi
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• Of Montreal albums
• 1999 albums
• Bar/None Records albums
• 1990s concept albums
• Elephant 6 albums