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The Billy Nayer Show
12+ albums
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about
Explaining The Billy Nayer Show is like the Supreme Court trying to define pornography: You can’t describe it, but you know it when you see it. Their specialty is a dark and sometimes cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising core belief in the power of love. BNS is a band infused by an entirely unique, internal mythology outside and beyond any trends. The San Francisco born, New York based Billy Nayer Show is singer/songwriter/electric autoharpist Cory McAbee, drummer Bobby Lurie and bassist Frank Swart. Their first gig, opening for The Circle Jerks, found them covered in human phlegm (not their own) as the PA system caught on fire. With the Billy Nayer Show’s self-titled debut album in 1994, the group had already gained a cult following with San Franciscans enraptured by characters like the Bunny King. Genuine love songs like “Apartment #5” stood in contrast to angular post-punk allegories like “Window” and the strange but important phenomenon known as “Weasel Heart”. The band evolved with it’s own logic. The Ketchup and Mustard Man (1994) was a stream-of-consciousness type radio show. The Villain That Love Built (1998) -- easily the band’s most sinister and mean-spirited album—skinned the Bunny King and unleashed a malicious and heavy tone. Inspired by the band’s new life on the East Coast, BNS released Return to Brigadoon (1999), a lush, romantic ode to love, which stabbed at the dark crevices of religion and politics. Last year’s double CD, Goodbye Straplight Sarentino,
