A Soap Bubble and Inertia

A Soap Bubble and Inertia is the debut album by Canadian alternative rock band The Gandharvas. It was released in 1994 on the Thermometer Sound Surface record label. The album featured three singles; "The First Day of Spring", "The Coffee Song" and "Shadow", all which had music videos. By April 1998, the album had sold over 35,000 copies.[2]

A Soap Bubble and Inertia
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 2, 1994
GenreAlternative rock
Length51:06
LabelThermometer Sound Surface
ProducerDan Brodbeck, The Gandharvas
The Gandharvas chronology
A Soap Bubble and Inertia
(1994)
Kicking in the Water
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

The album's title is taken from a line in the novel Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The album's single, "The First Day of Spring," was named Song of the Year for 1994 (CASBY Award) by The Edge 102.1 in Toronto, Ontario. In 2007 the same radio station ranked the song #14 in their "Top 102 Canadian New Rock Songs of All Time" list.

Track listing

All tracks by The Gandharvas (Lyrics - Paul Jago)

  1. "The First Day of Spring" – 4:25
  2. "Saturn Quits Fasting" – 3:58
  3. "The Coffee Song" – 3:20
  4. "Bundle" – 4:20
  5. "Beakfulls of Heroin" – 4:48
  6. "Shadow" – 4:40
  7. "The Supreme Personality" – 4:18
  8. "Dallying" – 4:24
  9. "Cans"  (instrumental) – 2:55
  10. "Soap Bubble Meets Inertia" – 8:02
  11. "Elevator Bugs" – 3:12
  12. "Circus Song"  (instrumental) – 2:40

Personnel

References

  1. A Soap Bubble and Inertia at AllMusic
  2. "Gandharvas set for U.S. debut". Archived from the original on October 22, 2004. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
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