''The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps'' is an
album
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by the
post-rock
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band
From Monument to Masses
From Monument to Masses was a politically charged post-rock band which was founded in San Francisco in late 2000. They have released four albums to date, the latest full-length of which was released through Dim Mak on March 10, 2009. They played ...
. It was released in 2003, and was the band's second release on
Dim Mak Records. As with other albums released by the group, there are numerous television, radio and film sound clips played within tracks, ranging from clips of
George W Bush, to a
Morpheus speech from the film ''
The Matrix''.
Track listing
#"Sharpshooter" – 8:52
#*Contains quotations from
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...
, in addition to various news report excerpts from
September 11, 2001.
#"From the Mountains to the Praries" – 8:58
#*Contains quotations from
George W Bush,
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, ...
,
Sunera Thobani
Sunera Thobani (born 1957) is a Tanzanian-Canadian feminist sociologist, academic, and activist. Her research interests include critical race theory, postcolonial feminism, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, Indigeneity, and the War on Terror. S ...
, and Colonel Dax from ''
Paths of Glory''.
#"The Quiet Before..." – 2:55
#*Contains excerpts from the film ''
Pump Up the Volume'', and a
Morpheus speech in ''
The Matrix''.
#"The Spice Must Flow" – 7:53
#*Contains quotations from
Martin Luther King Jr. and ''
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
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''.
#"Comrades & Friends" – 4:06
#*Contains a quotation from Noam Chomsky.
#"Old Robes" – 8:10
#*Contains quotations from
H. Rap Brown
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist, black separatist, and convicted murderer who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
.
#"To Z (Repeat)" – 6:49
#*Contains quotations from Sunera Thobani and Frederick Douglass.
External links
Official websiteMySpace pageDim Mak RecordsRCRD LBL pageFMTM on YouTube
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2003 albums
Dim Mak Records albums