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The Thrills: Let’s Bottle Bohemia

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On September 13, 2004, “Virgin” label released “Let’s Bottle Bohemia”, the second Thrills (The) album. It was recorded 2003 – 2004, and was produced by Dave Sardy.  

Personnel:

  • Conor Deasy – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
  • Daniel Ryan – guitar, banjo, bass, backing vocals
  • Padraic McMaon – guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Kevin Horan – piano, organ, backing vocals
  • Ben Carrigan – drums, percussion
  • Peter Buck – guitar, mandolin
  • Van Dyke Parks – accordion, strings arrangements, conductor
  • Greg Gordon – engineer
  • Warren Huart – editing
  • Dave Sardy – mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Ross Garfield – technician

Track listing:

  1. Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
  2. Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?
  3. Faded Beauty Queens
  4. Saturday Night
  5. Not for All the Love in the World
  6. Our Wasted Lives
  7. You Can’t Fool Old Friends with Limousines
  8. Found My Rosebud
  9. The Curse of Comfort
  10. The Irish Keep Gate-crashing / A City of Long Nights (hidden track) 

The Thrills: Teenager

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On July 22, 2007, “Virgin” label released “Teenager”, the third Thrills (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2007 and was produced by Tony Hoffer.

Personnel:

  • Conor Deasy – vocals, harmonica, acoustic guitar
  • Daniel Ryan – guitars, bass, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
  • Pádraic McMahon – bass, guitars, backing vocals
  • Kevin Horan – piano, organ, backing vocals
  • Ben Carrigan – drums, percussion
  • Tony Hoffer– mixing
  • Bob Clearmountain – mixing

Track listing:

All tracks by Conor Deasy, Kevin Horan, Pádraic McMahon, Daniel Ryan, and Ben Carrigan.

  1. The Midnight Choir
  2. This Year
  3. Nothing Changes Around Here
  4. Restaurant
  5. I Came All This Way
  6. Long Forgotten Song
  7. I’m So Sorry
  8. No More Empty Words
  9. Teenager
  10. Should’ve Known Better
  11. There’s Joy to Be Found … The Boy Who Caught All the Breaks

The Thrills: So Much For The City

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On May 27, 2003, “Virgin” label released “So Much for the City”, the debut Thrills album. It was recorded October 2002 – March 2003, and was produced by Tony Hoffer. “So Much for the City” won ‘Album of the Year’ at the Irish national music awards.

Personnel:

  • Conor Deasy – vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Daniel Ryan – guitar
  • Padraic McMahon – bass, guitar, harmonica
  • Ben Carrigan – drums, percussion
  • Kevin Horan – background vocals, organ, piano, synthesizer
  • Jay Dee Maness, JayDee Mannes – pedal steel
  • David Woodford, Nicholas Lane, Nick Lane, Steve Madaio – horn
  • David Campbell – horn and string arrangements
  • Charlie Bisharat, Joel Derouin, Berj Garabedian, Suzie Katayama, Sara Perkins – violin
  • John Hayhurst – viola
  • Larry Corbett – cello
  • Ben Drury – logo, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Conor Deasy, Daniel Ryan, Padraic McMahon, Ben Carrigan and Kevin Horan.

  1. Santa Cruz (You’re Not That Far)
  2. Big Sur
  3. Don’t Steal Our Sun
  4. Deckchairs and Cigarettes
  5. One Horse Town
  6. Old Friends, New Lovers
  7. Say It Ain’t So
  8. Hollywood Kids
  9. Just Travelling Through
  10. Your Love Is Like Las Vegas
  11. ‘Til the Tide Creeps In / Plans (hidden track)