''Available in All Colours'' is the debut album of British metal band

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, released in 1998. It was released on

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, and distributed by 3mv/Pinnacle in the UK,

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in France, Rough Trade in Germany and Austria, M.N.W. in Scandinavia, Record Services in Ireland, P.I.A.S in Benelux and Universal in Italy. It was produced by Machine, and so, although One Minute Silence are a

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band, it has a hip hop quality to it. The album features cover artwork by

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(the copyright is owned by Big Cat Records, however) which portrays

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es in orange and green tubes with the labels "

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", etc. It is intended as a comment on the isolation of

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society and the categorisation of individuals. Three songs of ''Available in All Colors'' are featured in the 1999 video game ''

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''; "South Central" is played in the opening cinematic, "A More Violent Approach" serves as the menu music, and "And Some Ya Lose" is used as the sixth level theme (The Oil Rig). All of them are instrumental versions.

Track listing

# "New Dogs New Tricks" – 3:47 # "South Central" – 3:45 # "Stuck Between a Rock and a White Face" – 3:16 # "A More Violent Approach" – 3:56 # "Norfuckinmality" – 3:03 # "For Want of a Better World" – 3:37 # "I Think Therefore I'm Damned" – 3:28 # "Remain Calm" – 3:27 # "Available in All Colours" – 4:42 # "Brainspiller" – 4:48 # "A Waste of Things to Come" – 3:03 # "And Some Ya Lose" – 3:12 # "Pig Until Proven Cop" – 7:55 # "Half Empty" – 3:44 (Japanese edition bonus track) # "Yank My Doodle Dandy" – 4:00 (Japanese edition bonus track) # "Going Gone (Demo)" – 3:08 (Japanese edition bonus track) # "And Counting (Demo) – 2:40 (Japanese edition bonus track)

References

One Minute Silence albums Big Cat Records albums 1998 debut albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub