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. The album was recorded at Headgear Studio in Brooklyn. It was awarded the

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for 2004. It was released on CD, 12" vinyl and MP3 download formats. The CD is enhanced with two different quality QuickTime video files of the "Dreams" music video. The 12" features two records with the extra song "You Could Be Love" and a different track order from the CD. The MP3 version includes two extra songs not available on the CD. " Staring at the Sun" has the intro edited from the original version on ''

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'', and is the same version used on the single and video. In 2024, the band and Touch and Go Records commemorated the album's 20th anniversary by re-releasing it as a two-LP set and Bandcamp download, both with bonus tracks. As of 2009, sales in the United States have exceeded 116,000 copies, according to

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Legacy

The album was included in the book ''

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''.

Track listing

Original release #"The Wrong Way" – 4:38 #" Staring at the Sun" – 3:27 #"Dreams" – 5:09 #"King Eternal" – 4:28 #"Ambulance" – 4:55 #"Poppy" – 6:07 #"Don't Love You" – 5:31 #"Bomb Yourself" – 5:32 #"Wear You Out" – 7:22 Track on the vinyl and MP3 versions #

"You Could Be Love" (The vinyl LP release moves "Staring" to side three, before "You Could Be Love." Side four is an etching.)
Track on the MP3 version #

"Staring at the Sun" (demo) 20th Anniversary Reissue #"The Wrong Way" – 4:38 #"Dreams" – 5:09 #"King Eternal" – 4:27 #"Ambulance" – 4:54 #"Poppy" – 6:07 #"Don't Love You" – 5:31 #"Bomb Yourself" – 5:31 #"Wear You Out" – 7:20 #"Staring at the Sun" – 3:26 #"You Could Be Love" - 7:16 #"Staring at the Sun" (demo) - 6:13 #"New Health Rock" - 4:01 #"Modern Romance" - 4:09 #"Final Fantasy" - 3:14 #"Dry Drunk Emperor" - 6:47 12-13 are remastered, and originally from the "New Health Rock" single. 14 is a previously unreleased early demo of the song which became "Bomb Yourself." 15 was originally released as a free download in 2005.

Personnel

Tunde Adebimpe Babatunde Omoroga Adebimpe (; born February 25, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is best known as a founding member and co-lead vocalist of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio, with whom he has recorded five st ...

– vocals, loops *

Kyp Malone Kyp Malone (born February 27, 1973) is an American multi-instrumentalist and member of the bands TV on the Radio, Iran, Rain Machine, and Ice Balloons. Biography Malone grew up in Moon Township, Pennsylvania and moved to New Jersey for High Scho ...

– vocals, guitars, loops *

David Andrew Sitek David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

– music, guitars, keys, loops *

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– alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flutes

Charts

References

External links

Touch and Go release page
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