Good Day at the Races

"Good Day at the Races"
"Good Day at the Races"
Single by Hollerado
from the album Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning
Released	September 2011
Recorded	2010
Genre	Indie rock, alternative rock
Length	3:29 (single version); 3:55 (album version)
Label	Royal Mountain Records
Songwriter(s)	Dean Baxter, Jake Boyd, Nixon Boyd, Menno Versteeg
Hollerado singles chronology

"Good Day at the Races" is the first single from Canadian band Hollerado's LP, Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning.

Lyrics

Hollerado frontman Menno Versteeg has stated that Good Day at the Races is "a song about Freddie Mercury,"^[1] lead singer of the British rock band Queen. Queen's fifth album, A Day at the Races, included the song Somebody to Love in which Mercury, who was bisexual, pleaded, "Can anybody find me somebody to love?" Good Day at the Races alludes to that song with the line, "Way down low but I got somebody to love."

Version differences

The single version is quite different from the version found on Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning. The LP is described as containing "two brand new tracks produced by Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes, b-sides from the Record in a Bag session, a live recording of the song "Canadianarama" and a couple of songs that Menno and Jake recorded themselves in one of the living rooms they were living in for a few weeks."^[2] Due to the album version of "Good Day at the Races" having a much less refined sound, it is possible that that version was recorded in a living room and that the band later recorded the single version in a studio. The album version also has fairly distorted vocals, while the single version's are clear.

The music video does use the single version, but is slightly different at the end. It finishes with "way down low, but I got somebody to..." being sung while the guitar is sustained, and eventually turns into an a capella, with all instruments returning briefly at the end to play just a few more notes.

Music video

The music video, directed by Michael Maxxis was Filmed at The Abbyville Rodeo Grounds in Abbyville, Kansas and Hedrick's Exotic Animal Farm in Nickerson, KS, features the bands riding on and racing ostriches. It also shows the band banging on buckets with sticks of wood, women dancing while looking totally uninterested, shots of a small crowd in the bleachers eating and drinking soda while seeming bored, and stop motion animation of fruits in sand. Occasionally, the music will stop for a second to show a clip of the band riding the ostriches, and also of one member running away from an ostrich that is chasing him.

Track listing

Source:^[3]^{[better source needed]}

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Good Day at the Races"	3:29
2.	"Walkin' Out on Daytime"	4:25

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Canadian Alternative Chart^[4]	7

References

^ Lepage, Mark (4 August 2013). "Mark Lepage at Osheaga 2013, Sunday: New Order, Hollerado, Little Green Cars". Montreal Gazette blogs. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
^ "Royal Mountain Records".
^ http://www.galleryac.com/hollerado-good-day-at-the-races.html
^ "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Alternative Rock - December 13, 2011". America's Music Charts. 13 December 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2011.

[1] Lepage, Mark (4 August 2013). "Mark Lepage at Osheaga 2013, Sunday: New Order, Hollerado, Little Green Cars". Montreal Gazette blogs. Retrieved 10 August 2014.

[2] "Royal Mountain Records".

[3] ttp://www.galleryac.com/hollerado-good-day-at-the-races.html

[4] "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Alternative Rock - December 13, 2011". America's Music Charts. 13 December 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2011.

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