Bed and Breakfast (album)


Bed and Breakfast are two albums released by Spookey Ruben. Originally released as singular albums in 2001 and 2002, they were re-packaged to a two cd set for worldwide release in 2006. In 1997, Spookey delivered tapes of what was then two EP-length releases, Bed and Breakfast. TVT wasn't too keen on what they heard, and grew increasingly nervous about the concept behind the double release. He returned to work on more demos, while his frustration grew, and this turned out to be the truncated version of these two albums, Modes of Transportation Vol. 2: What's a Boy to do?. Music videos were released for, "Brand New Game", "Glenn, Take Care", "Sex Traffic" and "Shauna". They are available on his .
Describing the albums in 2001 to , Spookey states: "Bed is the slower songs, Breakfast is the fast songs," he begins. "Bed is red and Breakfast is green, like stop and go. Breakfast has this '80s digital watch and Bed has the old cuckoo clock. The production is kinda like that Bed is more towards the '70s and Breakfast leans into the '80s. Breakfast is the short and sweet poppy songs, Bed is deeper, the lyrics are heavier and the songs are slower. Breakfast is cartoons and Bed is this heavy dictionary. Bed should be listened to completely in the dark. For ideal listening pleasure, Breakfast ought to be dubbed to a cassette on an original Sony Walkman and you should be on a treadmill with your leg warmers on." Each track relates to a time period between 1:00am - 23:00pm

Bed

  1. Good Night, Sleep Tight
  2. When You Fall In Love with Someone Who's in Love with Someone Else
  3. Favourite Movie
  4. Kubla Khan
  5. Glenn, Take Care
  6. Trick Boy Wonder
  7. Hey Now, Behave Now
  8. Deja Vu
  9. 9am: Who's Got the Inside Scoop On You?
  10. Roncesvalles
  11. Memory / Lazy
  12. N.Kinski

    Breakfast

  13. Wakey wakey
  14. The Office
  15. Over And Out
  16. Brand New Game
  17. Shauna
  18. Sex Traffic
  19. My Female Friends
  20. Born on Labor Day
  21. Suddenly The Sun
  22. Public Puberty
  23. Overhills
  24. Why Did I Do What I Did?

    Production

The music blog states: Somewhere between the musical stylings of Human League, Islands and Kennedy lies Spookey Ruben. It's like indie music for kids but still directed towards adults. The songs are whimsical, bright, and bouncy with a dash of electro-prog thrown in.