Tired Eyes Slowly Burning

Tired Eyes Slowly Burning
Studio album by The Tear Garden
Released	1987
Genre	Psychedelic
Length	1:09:53
Label	Nettwerk
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The Tear Garden chronology
Tired Eyes Slowly Burning (1987) The Last Man To Fly (1992)

Tired Eyes Slowly Burning is a 1987 LP by The Tear Garden. It is their first full release, with only the self-titled EP released prior. Tracks 7-10 are from that EP.

Track listing

1. Déjà Vu - 4:48
2. Room with a View - 6:06
3. Coma - 4:10
4. Valium - 5:38
5. You and Me and Rainbows - 16:46
6. Oo Ee Oo - 5:16
7. The Centre Bullet - 9:46
8. Ophelia - 8:36
9. Tear Garden - 4:50
10. My Thorny Thorny Crown - 3:57

Notes

Personnel:

• Edward Ka-Spel
• cEVIN Key

Guests:

• D. Rudolph Goettel - keyboards on "Déjà Vu", "Room With A View", "Coma", and "You and Me and Rainbows"
• Rave - guitar on "Deja Vu", guitar/tapes on "You and Me and Rainbows"
• Lee Salford - percussion on "Room with a View" and "You and Me and Rainbows"
• Lisa - lady voice on "Valium"
• N.Ogre - voice on "You and Me and Rainbows"

Misc

Tracks 7-10 taken from The Tear Garden EP. The track 'The Centre Bullet' was the first Tear Garden song written, originally appearing as a Skinny Puppy track with a few vocals by cEvin himself on an early Skinny Puppy Album entitled Bites. The song was later re-released, with vocals by Edward Ka-Spel, on The Tear Garden's self-titled EP, in its entirety, and on the CD edition of Tired Eyes Slowly Burning. Etched into the vinyl edition was the phrase "AND EVEN THE VEGETABLES SCREAMED!", which is both the title of a song by The Legendary Pink Dots and a lyric used in their song Hotel Noir. The album's title 'Tired Eyes Slowly Burning' was also used as a lyric in the Edward Ka-Spel solo song Hotel X (on his 1991 album Tanith and The Lion Tree).