''Half the World Is Watching Me'' is the second album by Danish

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band Mew, released on their own record label Evil Office in 2000. The album was originally printed in about only 5,000 copies, but has been reissued twice for wider distribution. The reissued version released 4 September 2007 includes a nine-track bonus disc. The original release and the 2007 reissue include a hidden track, "Ending". The final 11 seconds of "Ending" are in fact the first 11 seconds at the start of "Am I Wry? No" before the drums kick in.

Track listing

Original release

"Ending" – 2:01 # "Am I Wry? No" – 4:53 # "Mica" – 2:58 # "Saliva" – 4:08 # "King Christian" – 4:24 # "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" – 4:24 # "156" – 4:46 # "Symmetry" – 5:18 # "Comforting Sounds" – 8:44 To find the hidden track "Ending", which is identified by the purple circle at the center of the disc, start the opening track "Am I Wry? No" and rewind past 0:00.

Bonus tracks on first reissue

She Came Home for Christmas She Came Home for Christmas is the second single by Danish alternative rock band Mew. The song was released after "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)". The song originally appeared on the band's debut album ''A Triumph for Man'' in 1997, and ...

" – 4:01 # "I Should Have Been a Tsin-Tsi (For You)" – 2:01 This version did not include the hidden track "Ending", but added 2 bonus tracks (which are versions unique to this record). It is identifiable by a slightly different cover where the text has a white border, and an expanded booklet with full-page photographs of the band members. The disc is reflective, not totally white like the original release.

2007 reissue bonus disc

# "Half The World Is Watching Me" (studio outtake) – 3:04 # "Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years" (live) – 3:18 # "Mica" (live) – 3:42 # "Wheels Over Me" (live) – 2:42 # "Wherever" (live) – 5:31 # "156" (Cubase demo) – 5:22 # "Quietly" (demo) – 3:29 # "Comforting Sounds (Do I Look Puerto Rican?)" (demo) – 7:48

Personnel

Mew

Jonas Bjerre Jonas Bjerre Terkelsbøl (born 21 September 1976) is a musician and visual artist from Copenhagen, Denmark, best known as the lead singer of Danish rock band Mew. Bjerre creates animated videos for Mew's live shows. He has an uncommon vocal ra ...

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acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

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* Bo Madsen - electric guitars, acoustic guitars *

Johan Wohlert Johan Haslund Wohlert (born 10 March 1976) is the bass player of Danish indie band Mew. He previously left the band on 11 April 2006, because he did not feel that he could be a rock star and a good father at the same time. He was boyfriend to Pe ...

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, guitars *Silas Utke Graae Jørgensen -

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, drum machine

Additional personnel

*Tim Christensen -

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*Klaus Nielson -

(tracks 1, 4, 6, 7) *Mads Hyhne and Kasper Tranberg -

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*Flemming Rasmussen and Morten Sidenius - co-producer *

Flemming Rasmussen Flemming Rasmussen (born 1 January 1958) is a Danish sound engineer, record producer, and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmussen is currently main engineer/producer at Sweet Silence North in Helsingør. Biog ...

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, mixer *Jan Eliasson and Morten Bue -

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References

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