TV On The Radio Cover Seventeen Seconds Fourteen Times
You know that downloaded copy of Return To Cookie Mountain you've been digging for the last few months? The one with the mislabelled songs? Here's what you'll get when you pay for the real deal 9/12:
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain U.S. Tracklist
01. I Was A Lover
02. Hours
03. Province
04. Playhouses
05. Wolf Like Me
06. A Method
07. Let The Devil In
08. Dirty Whirl
09. Blues From Down Here
10. Tonight
11. Wash The Day Away
12. [0:17 silence]
13. [0:17 silence]
14. [0:17 silence]
15. [0:17 silence]
16. [0:17 silence]
17. [0:17 silence]
18. [0:17 silence]
19. [0:17 silence]
20. [0:17 silence]
21. [0:17 silence]
22. [0:17 silence]
23. [0:17 silence]
24. [0:17 silence]
25. [0:17 silence]
26. [ambient audio]
27. Snakes and Martyrs
28. Hours (El-P Remix)
29. Things You Can Do
Didn't Cracker do something like that for Kerosene Hat? But with, like, 90 tracks?
I wonder if #12-25 will be free on iTunes.
Posted at 11:41 PM
Tags: TV On The Radio
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I'm pretty sure Tool did it as well on 'Undertow'. Disgustipated is track 69 on my copy of the CD.
And yeah, Cracker did it on 'Kerosene Hat' hiding Hi Desert Biker Meth Lab after 2 silent tracks and Euro Trash Girl at Track 69, Take Me (Back) To You at Track 88 and Kerosene Hat (demo) at Track 99
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iTunes usually just neglects to carry the blank tracks. That's what they did for Summerteeth.
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Roots did it on "Phrenology."
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As did Dave Matthews Band for the album Under the Table and Dreaming with tracks 12-33.
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Stone Roses did it with "Second Coming," Nine Inch Nails did it with "Broken."
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DJs do it with 12 inches
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I seem to remember a Bigwig album that had a load of blanks and then nothing at the end. That used to piss me off in my teenage days.
The version of Cookie I have (UK version) only has 11 tracks, and I liked about one, so I'm glad I didn't get the 14 tracks of 17 seconds of silence because that would've made me dislike it even more.
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Prince did this with the NPG's "Newpower Soul" as well. Tracks 13-98, silence; track 99, the best song on the CD.
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Mercury Rev did this in 1991 on 'Yerself is Steam'. Track 99 is 'Car Wash Hair'.
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sonic youth had a silent track on their "goodbye 20th century" that iTunes originally didn't post. but after complaints, it was added back. it's an actual cover "song," though, and not just silence...although I'm not sure I can honestly say what the difference is.
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dont forget [some may try to] dynamite hack! they did it with 'superfast' 14ish-50something. all blank.
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speaking of bands we'd rather forget, korn did that with their cd "follow the leader." it started with 0:17 from tracks 1 to 12, then the songs started on track 13. i remember seeing a label on the jewel case explaining this. morons.
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my grandmother did it too. is this supposed to make me buy the american version? How about adding one of
Kyp Malone's tiny t-shirts to the cd package.
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Brainville beat me to the punch - on some pressings Yerself Is Steam, Very Sleepy Rivers is split between tracks 8 and 98. It made it hell on the shuffle play in the record store where I worked.
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I don't get it? Whats the point
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That's a real deep artistic statement. Didn't Marilyn Manson do it up to track 99 or something?
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they finally have their website up and running, somewhat:
http://www.tvontheradio.com/
also, free poster if you pre-order Cookie through insound.
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yeah really, what's the point?
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All I know is, "Cookie Mountain" is my fave album so far this year. I freaking dig it the most.
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So did They Might Be Giants on Apollo 18
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Um, "Is this the airport",
There's no silent tracks on Apollo 18. Tracks 17-37 are a bunch of short song fragments, that form the long song, "fingertips." The liner notes to the album explain why.
In response to the original post, in the age of digital music, aren't these types of things dead? Even "hidden tracks", where there's that 6-minute emptiness between the last and second-to-last track, it's more annoying than cloying, isn't it?
The 30-minute "listen to my girlfriend sleeping" track on the new OK Go album got me thinking about this.
I agree with Sebastian and kg, why even bother?
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Uh, Ladytron did that on "Witching Hour", I think...they finished it off with a nine-minute track of silence.
And forgive me for not seeing the artistic statement, but why do people bother with this? It's a waste of space and it just pisses off the listener.
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Blur did that on "Modern Life is Rubbish" except the tracks went to 68 and 69. It's a BITCH to encode a cd like that. Well, you just have to delete or uncheck 50-something songs.
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I bought the UK thing...same thing as the other guy. Only 11 tracks and I probably only like about 1. I tried hard to like it, liked all their past stuff, forced myself to listen to it numerous times, and I've had to finally admit it to myself. I really don't like Cookie.
Sunset Rubdown on the other hand has been enthralling me continuously for at least 4 months.
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john cage did this in 1951 -- in his classic silent piece "4 minutes, 33 seconds"
it was kind of annoyingly stupid then, and 55 years later it's old, stupid and tired.
but i still think that "Cookie" is awesome.
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Mercury Rev did this, too, for Yerself Is Steam. To get to "Car Wash Hair", which was appended to the album after the fact, you had to zip through like 90 tracks of three seconds of silence.
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