'' Tough Guys Don't Dance ''is the third album from the

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producer

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, released on 1 October 2007 on the

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label.

Track listing

# "If We Ever" (featuring

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) # "Everything's Different" (featuring Ian Shaw) # "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" # "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" # "Forever & A Day" (featuring J'Nay) # "Sleepless" # "Tread Softly" # "Metamorphosis" # "Pink Flamingos" # "Eternal Optimist" (featuring J'Nay) # "Chances" (featuring

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) # "Nobody Gets Out Alive" # "The Ghost Of Jungle Past"

Sampled Songs

*"If We Ever" includes a vocal sample ''(Spaceless and timeless... such loveliness)'' from the 1976 film ''

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'' and incorporates elements of "Stand Still" by

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. *"Everything's Different" uses a violin sample from the 1981 horror film '' The Beyond''. *"

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" is an instrumental cover of the

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song of the same name. *"Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" samples the song " Cry Me a River" by

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. *"Sleepless" includes a vocal sample ''(Don't let those motherfuckers sleep)'' from the 1987 film '' Tough Guys Don't Dance''. *"Nobody Gets Out Alive" samples the song "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" by

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. High Contrast albums 2007 albums Hospital Records albums {{2000s-electronic-album-stub