''Live from a Shark Cage'' is the first album by

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, the third such

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used by

David Pajo David Pajo (born June 25, 1968) is an American alternative rock musician. He has played a wide variety of music, loosely fitting into several other genres such as hardcore punk, math rock, post-rock, electronica, folk rock and indie pop. Though ...

(after 'M' and 'Aerial M'), released in 1999 on the

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-based Drag City label (see

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). The album was released on both CD and 180-gram vinyl. As specified in the brief liner notes, "Roadrunner" was recorded in San Francisco by Nat Gleason, "Drunken Spree" was recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini (who produced Pajo's previous band

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's first album, '' Tweez''), "I Am Not Lonely With Cricket" was recorded in

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by Stereolab's Tim Gane, and all other tracks were recorded at Velvetone Music Studio in Louisville, KY, pre-mastered by Konrad Strauss at Chicago Recording Company, and mastered by Nick Webb at

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. The image on the mostly black-background cover is a photograph, taken by Valery Yakushev, of a portion of a wall in the Park Of Culture subway station in

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Track listing

All tracks composed by David Pajo # "Arundel" – 1:04 # "Roadrunner" – 5:10 # "Pink Holler" – 5:01 # "Plastic Energy Man" – 5:36 # "Drunken Spree" – 9:05 # "Bups" – 1:12 # "Crowd of One" – 3:35 # "I Am Not Lonely with Cricket" – 14:55 # "Knocking the Casket" – 3:32 # "Up North Kids" – 5:14 # "Arundel" – 4:36

Track information

Concerning the songs that bookend the album, a few places share their name with the title of both songs, "Arundel". The town of

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, in the south of

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, is bordered on the west by the River Arun, and lies within the district of Arun. Both

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and Arundel Cathedral lie within the town. Also, there is a county in

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, named Anne Arundel. However, considering that Pajo recorded one track in

, it is likely, though by no means definite, that "Arundel" was inspired or influenced by one of the locations in England.

References

{{Authority control David Pajo albums 1999 albums albums produced by Steve Albini Drag City (record label) albums